Peninsula: From a supporting actor to the best actor in Chungmuro

Chapter 38 Liu Renna raises the volume
The convention in the industry is that actors are obligated to cooperate with roadshow promotions.

However, there is an essential difference between the promotional model of voice actors and movie actors. The former only needs to record a short promotional video to complete the cooperation.

For example, after attending the preview, Yoona and Taeyeon recorded a video together and no longer participated in the subsequent promotion of "Despicable Me 2".

The reason why Kang Jae-hoon actively participated in the promotion was that both sides got what they wanted.

Although there is no additional compensation, frequent exposure can increase his search index on the streaming platform.

More importantly, this kind of cooperation at all costs can create a good impression in the minds of the producers.

After all, if Universal Pictures launches a new Korean dubbing project for a new animation, there is no reason not to give priority to this hardworking young man who was paid one million won to follow up on the promotion throughout the process.

The distributor of "Despicable Me 2" in South Korea is CJ.

After discussing with the director and CJ publicity team, Kim Dae-won finally decided to have Kang Jae-hoon attend the KBS night radio program "Liu Inna's Volume Up."

This radio program ranks first in nighttime listening rate and covers all age groups, which is perfect for the audience.

At 7:30 that evening.

Kim Dae-won picked up Kang Jae-hoon in Seongsu-dong and went to KSB TV station in Yeouido.

"Give this as a gift when we meet."

He pulled a gift bag from the passenger seat and handed it to the back seat.

Jiang Zaixun glanced at the box - inside was a microphone covered with diamonds.

"I checked, and when Yoo In Na first debuted, she wanted to be a singer."

"Oh... reimbursement from the crew?"

"Deduct it from your salary."

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The air conditioning in the corridor of KBS radio station is more stinging than that in SBS TV station.

At the director's signal, Kang Jae-hoon pushed open the door of Studio 3, and Liu Inna was adjusting her headset in front of the makeup mirror.

"Liu Rennaxi, the guests have arrived."

Liu Renna stood up from the swivel chair:

"Nice to meet you, Jiang Jaehoon."

"Hello, senior. This is a greeting gift for you."

He bowed and handed over the gift box.

"Oh, you're so polite~"

Liu Renna's eyes suddenly widened when she opened the box.

The rhinestone-covered microphone refracted fragmented light under the overhead light, and her eyebrows suddenly curved into two crescents:
"PD nim, it looks like today's guest is trying to bribe the host."

Suppressed laughter came from the director's desk.

"Thank you. I accept this kindness."

Liu Renna gently placed the gift box on the mixing console and gestured for him to sit down:

"Just relax, like you're chatting with a friend."

"Okay senior."

Jiang Jae-hoon looked at the busy director team outside the glass, and suddenly remembered that at the preview, Lin Yoona also said "Relax" in a gentle tone.

Five minutes later, the director made a five-second countdown gesture in the monitoring room.

Liu Renna finally adjusted the tightness of the headset.

The countdown red light turns solid.

Liu Renna's voice flowed into the microphone like melted honey:

"Dear stars of the night, this is KBS 89.1MHz's 'Turn Up the Volume'."

She turned her head to look at Jiang Zaixun:

"Today the studio smells like mint because we have a guest whose voice sounds like a summer spring—Jiang Jaehoon, welcome!"

Jiang Zaixun cleared his throat into the microphone:
"Hello everyone, I'm Kang Jae-hoon, and I'm studying to become a qualified actor."

"The hottest animated film recently is undoubtedly Despicable Me 2, and its pre-sale rate has already broken the record for Korean animation. As the Korean voice actor of Gru, can you briefly introduce the story of Despicable Me 2 to us stars?"

"of course."

Jiang Zaixun adjusted the distance of the microphone. "This time, Gru has turned over a new leaf and joined the Anti-Villain League. He and Lucy teamed up to stop the new villain's plan to destroy the world. By the way," he paused for half a second, "he also dealt with his eldest daughter's adolescent emotional issues."

"Speaking of daughters, Kim Taeyeonxi and Lim Yoonaxi voiced the daughter's role, right?"

"Yes."

"So, is there anything interesting you can share about your collaboration with them?"

“Because it was recorded on separate tracks, we didn’t have much time to work together.”

Jiang Zaixun suddenly showed a reminiscent look: "But there is a small episode that left a deep impression on me."

"Oh? What is it?"

"During a break in recording, Kim Taeyeonxi was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and dragged out of the studio by her manager for eating fried chicken."

He suddenly paused: "This. Can you tell me?"

Liu Renna used the script to cover the lower half of her face, and the smile lines at the end of her eyes deepened by two points:
"Now everyone in the country knows that Kim Taeyeon-xi secretly ate fried chicken during her comeback."

"Can you cut this part?"

Liu Renna pointed to the camera on the wall and said, "This is a live broadcast of the entire event."

The live broadcast room fell into silence for three seconds.

The director's suppressed laughter came from the monitoring room.

Liu Renna did not let the awkwardness last too long, and said into the microphone while looking at the script:

"Next, if you have anything you want to say to Jiang Zaixunxi, or if you have any questions you want to ask, you can send a text message to"

After introducing the interactive method, Liu Renna turned to look at Jiang Zaixun:

"Now we're going to play a song and wait for the audience to leave a comment. Is there any song Jiang Jae-hoonxi would like to hear?"

"'Happy', which recently topped the Billboard charts for two consecutive years."

PD pressed the play button, and the theme song of "Despicable Me 2" flowed out from the sound console.

As the theme song faded, Yoo In Na glanced at the message selected by the director:

"A listener with the last number 7743 left a message - I heard that Jiang Zaixunxi can imitate the voice of an elderly person. Can he reproduce my father's voice? He last week..."

Jiang Zaixun and Liu Renna looked at each other for two seconds: "What's your father's accent?"

"Gyeongsang accent."

"Hold on."

Jiang Zaixun quickly took out the "Dialect Handbook" given to him by Jin Dayuan from his backpack and paused at the part about Gyeongsang Province.

Ten seconds later.

He closed the manual and his Adam's apple rolled twice.

When he spoke again, his hoarse Gyeongsang dialect, with a rough ending, came out of the microphone:

"Youngjoo—"

He deliberately emphasized the vibrato of the word "ah".

The director then cut into the OST of "Reply 1997" as background music.

The guitar prelude and the dialect voice interweave into a wonderful resonance:

"No matter how high the prices are in Seoul, we still need to have enough to eat. Dad's passbook is in the iron box on the third layer of the wardrobe. The password is Young-joo's birthday..."

In an instant, a waterfall appeared on the real-time message board:
【Goosebumps! 】

[Dad’s passbook password is Youngjoo’s birthday TT]

Is this really the sound a 24-year-old can make?!

People in North Gyeongsang Province working overtime in Gangnam have already wet their keyboards with tears.

……

"Zaixunxi, can this be replayed for the family members?"

"Of course." Jiang Zaixun switched back to his natural voice. "My condolences."

The staff suddenly stuffed in a new message card.

Liu Renna glanced at the scribbled content, her pupils slightly dilated, and turned to make a questioning gesture to the director behind the glass curtain wall.

Seeing the director making a "permission" gesture, she put the tip of her tongue against the roof of her mouth and took a deep breath:

"The next message is from the listener with the last digit 3091 - I want to hear Jaehoon-oppa say sweet words to Inna-unnie in a gentle boyfriend voice."

"It seems our stars want to listen to some pink bubbles." Liu Renna turned to Jiang Zaixun, "Jaexunxi, do you mind?"

"I wouldn't mind, but..." He stroked the edge of the script with his fingertips, "Do you have any lines to refer to?"

“Completely free to play.”

"Please give me twenty seconds."

While waiting, Liu Renna skillfully changed the topic:

"My dear stars, now you can guess how Jaehoon will confess his love~"

Twenty seconds later, he raised his hand to indicate he was ready.

"Oh? Jiang Zaixunxi is ready, then let's get started."

Liu Inna held her chin and tilted her head, waiting for his performance.

Kang Jae-hoon focused his eyes on the fire hydrant behind her to avoid laughing.

"Innaxi——"

He lowered his voice to the bass, as if wrapped in snow, and even the arc of his Adam's apple was gentle:

"When the first snow falls on Namsan Tower, will you have dinner with me?" Liu Renna's earphone cable swayed with her trembling shoulders.
"Mr. Boyfriend, if you use a question mark when confessing your feelings for Hatsuyuki, you will be penalized."

Jiang Zaixun caught a glimpse of the PD's frantic gesture of "continue" and gritted his teeth to adjust his voice:

"Come and eat with me now."

“Too strong.”

She deliberately put on a stern face, but a smile leaked out from between her eyelashes.

"Will you have dinner with me?"

Jiang Zaixun's voice was mixed with a hint of tentativeness.

"Another question."

Liu Inna shook her ballpoint pen and shook her head.

Jiang Zaixun stared at the metal reflection of the fire hydrant and suddenly remembered Li Jingjing's eyebrow raise when he was sharp-tongued:

"I ordered two servings of ginseng chicken soup—"

He dragged out the last syllable for two beats: "But the doctor said eating alone hurts the stomach."

Liu Renna nodded with a teachable expression:

"You can graduate now."

The live message board in the director's room was suddenly flooded with pink love symbols:

[Help! I'm twisted up in bed!]

【Tonight we are all Liu Inna! 】

【I feel a little awkward for no reason, what's going on? 】

……

The director gestured "continue" behind the glass window.

Liu Renna understood and cleared her throat:

"If the stars are satisfied with Xunxi's vocal performance, please send a support message to participate in the customized volume."

In the shared house.

Sweat stains on the yoga mat have left dark water marks, and there are only 15 seconds left in the countdown for the three-minute plank.

At this moment, a low, numb male voice suddenly blasted out from the radio on the phone:
"When the first snow falls on Nanshan Tower, would you like to have dinner with me?"

Li Jingcheng's elbow went limp and his chin almost hit the ground.

She propped herself up, grabbed her phone and opened the live broadcast. The barrage of comments was turning into a pink swamp with "Ahhh, my ears are pregnant."

"Greasy."

Lee Sung-kyung hesitated for three seconds with her thumb hovering over the send button. She quickly typed [The vocal acting is okay] and added [But the lines are old-fashioned] the moment it was sent.

Inside the studio.

Liu Renna scanned the real-time message board, her fingertips hovering over a comment - [What kind of actor is he if he can only use his voice to pick up girls? ]

"Some audience members asked if Zaixunxi could improvise something more hardcore?"

"Hardcore? Movie lines, okay?"

"of course."

Jiang Zaixun closed his eyes for three seconds, and when he opened them again, his pupils were covered with a cloud:

"In those days, there were no mobile phone navigation or DNA testing."

His Gyeonggi-do dialect, brought out by the rolling of his Adam's apple, was low and hoarse:
"The police can only solve the case by relying on their feet and intuition."

The air conditioner in the director's room suddenly made a buzzing sound, and Liu Renna rubbed her forearms unconsciously.

"Like now—"

Jiang Zaixun slammed his hands on the table, the muffled sound mixed with a sudden high-pitched roar:
"What are you looking at! Do you think there's an answer on my face?"

The sound waves caused the pop filter to tremble slightly.

Liu Renna's neck was covered with small bumps. "Is this from 'Memories of Murder'?"

"Inside."

Jiang Zaixun switched back to his clear voice and wiped the spit that splashed onto the microphone grille with a tissue:
"I adapted some of Song Kang-ho's lines from the interrogation scene in 'Memories of Murder' without permission."

The peak listening rate on the data screen in the director's room broke the historical record.

The message board paused for two seconds before exploding with a screen-sweeping explosion:
[Help!]

[I suggest you check it out, it doesn’t look like acting]

Song Kang-ho is here?!

【…】

Behind the glass window, the PD suddenly held up a whiteboard: [Insert advertisement].

Liu Renna rolled up the script into a tube and tapped her palm: "Stars, wait a moment, I'll be back soon to hear more exciting things -"

The moment the commercial music sounded, the director rushed into the studio:
"The ratings broke the opening record! Everything will be freestyled from now on!"

"Free play?"

"Yes, what other tones are Xunxi good at?"

The director looked at Jiang Zaixun with sparkling eyes as if he was looking at a treasure.

"Clip sound?"

Liu Renna blinked her eyelashes twice quickly: "Please start your performance."

Jiang Zaixun cleared his throat and pinched his Adam's apple to recreate the scene in the movie where Gru doesn't let his little daughter eat ice cream:
"Darling, give your ice cream back to Daddy!" A shrill falsetto mixed with a sticky, bubbly sound, "or else the Fairy Godmother will turn you into a pumpkin~"

The air in the studio froze for two seconds.

Liu Renna suddenly covered her mouth and laughed out a muffled "pu".

"Are there any normal ones?"

Jiang Zaixun quickly straightened his back, and the subwoofer crushed the remaining sweet ending: "Even if I am an animal, don't I have the right to live?"

"Old Boy?"

"Ah."

"Okay, I'll dub the re-enactment of the classic movie in a moment."

"clear."

Three minutes later.

The director gestured a five-second countdown.

"Stars, thank you for your patience. Welcome back to 'Turn Up the Volume,' and now we have a special segment on 'Voice Cinema.'"

Jiang Zaixun adjusted the angle of the microphone and his Adam's apple moved slightly.

The real-time curve in the director's room climbed again the moment he opened his mouth.

"Even if I am a beast——"

Kang Jae-hoon's version of "Oh Dae-su"'s roar shattered the pop filter, and the bloody smell brought by the trembling Adam's apple made the temperature in the director's room drop three degrees.

“Why do I feel like I’ve been here before even though this is my first time here?”

When the song switched to "Peppermint Candy," Kang Jae-hoon's voice suddenly became as thin as a cicada's wing. The middle-aged man's broken feelings mixed with the auditory hallucination of a train whistle, making Liu Renna's brows gather an indelible cloud.

"..."

"Tonight the stars witnessed the miracle of vocal cords. Thank you to Xunxi for his wonderful performance——"

The off-air indicator light came on and Kang Jae-hoon bowed 90 degrees to the staff.

There was applause from the director's room, mixed with the data officer's cheers of "breaking the Taiwan record".

When Liu Renna got into the nanny car carrying the microphone gift box, Li Zhien was curled up in the back seat and checking her phone.

The demo of "Pink High Heels" was playing on the car speakers, and drum beats were tapping on the car windows.

"Wait for a long time?"

"Just arrived."

Li Zhien shook the convenience store plastic bag and said: "I just bought crucian carp cakes, they are still hot."

"Thanks."

Liu Renna took the crucian carp pancake and bit into the crispy edge: "I met a very amazing new actor today."

"How powerful?"

"I used my vocal cords to perform seven classic films, and the director's team gave me a standing ovation for the first time."

IU leaned forward and turned off the music: "Vocal acting?"

"The 'Peppermint Candy' part made me want to cry."

"Unnie's empathy is still that strong."

The car lights swept across the corner ahead, and Kim Dae-won and Kang Jae-hoon were rushing towards Exit B of the parking lot.

Li Zhien pointed at them and said, "Is that it?"

Liu Renna squinted her eyes to identify the figure:

"Yes, his name is Jiang Zaixun."

“It’s quite high.”

The nanny car started slowly.

The moment she passed by Kang Jae-hoon, Lee Ji-eun rolled down the car window.

The summer evening breeze carried the cool air from the basement of the radio station in, mixed with Jiang Zaixun's faint whisper, "Do you really want to deduct it from your salary?"

Today is also 2 in 1!

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