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

Chapter 4: International Market Wrap-up

It’s different from being forced to wake up by the alarm clock in the past.

Jiang Jae-hoon was woken up by the heat.

"What a horrible weather."

Muttering to himself, he got up and washed.

When we arrived at the breakfast area on the set, Kim Dae-won was already waiting there.

"Brother, you got up very early."

"How have you considered it?"

Jin Dayuan did not exchange pleasantries with him and went straight to the point.

"Well I have three questions for you."

Kang Jae-hoon took out the notebook from his pocket in which he had written down the questions Hwang Jung-min had asked yesterday.

"You ask."

"First question, what were the names of the extras whose scenes were deleted from 'Unfair Deal'?"

The director team did cut out the dock workers' protest scene due to time constraints.

But even Wikipedia doesn't include this.

"Park Sung-ho, seven stitches on his left eyebrow."

Jin Dayuan opened the photo album on his mobile phone and handed it over.

——In the group photo of the crew in 2010, the scarred man was standing on tiptoe and making a scissors sign behind Hwang Jung-min.

“He runs a fried chicken shop now.”

He swiped his phone again and said, "Last week, the crew of 'Pirates' ordered 200 servings of fried chicken."

Jiang Zaixun squinted his eyes to see the KakaoTalk group chat records clearly——

Park Sung-ho posted his location in the [Extras Survival Mutual Aid Association] group.

[Sungho Fried Chicken—141-2 Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul]

Today's Special: Buy ten and get a free autographed photo of Hwang Jung-min (2010 Dock Worker Limited Edition)

"Second question, where does the CJ purchasing director's mistress live?"

"My cousin works as a security guard in Shengshuidong."

Jin Dayuan pulled out a surveillance screenshot that was so blurry that even her own mother couldn't recognize it: "She broke two bottles of Chanel No. 5 when she moved in."

According to what Hwang Jung-min said.

As long as Jin Dayuan can answer the first two questions, he will be qualified for the position of his agent.

As for the third question.
Seeing Kang Jae-hoon's expression changing as he stared at the notebook in his hand, Kim Dae-won suddenly took it from him.

When he caught a glimpse of the "color of Hwang Jung-min's underwear", he suddenly sneered.

"XL blue and black striped briefs."

"how do you know?!"

Jiang Jae-hoon suddenly felt like the sky was falling.

"The day before yesterday, he was memorizing his lines while hanging his underwear in the makeshift open-air shower shed built by the crew."

Kim Dae-won suddenly imitated Hwang Jung-min's smoky voice: "And he was humming Oppa Gangnam Style out of tune—"

Jiang Jae-hoon suddenly realized that being a second-rate actor was actually not bad.

At least people won’t pay too much attention to your underwear.

not far away.

Huang Zhengmin, who was eating a popsicle to cool down, took the phone from his assistant:
"Hey, honey, stop looking. What did Xiaoxun's agent find? Ah Xi bought it again!"

The banana leaves curled up into a question mark in the heat wave.

……

One p.m.

Jiang Zaixun finally ushered in the second play of his life.

That is - to rescue Hwang Jung-min who fell into the water.

The prelude to this scene is that Deok-soo (Hwang Jung-min) decides to go to Vietnam to work as a logistics technician in order to raise funds to buy his aunt's shop and prepare a dowry for his sister.

(The middle plot is skipped.)
Because the stronghold was discovered by the Viet Cong, everyone had to move.

On the way out, the elderly, weak, women and children of local Vietnamese came out of the tunnel and begged to be taken with them.

The entanglement process attracted the pursuit of the Viet Cong.

De Xiu witnessed a little girl falling into the water, which reminded him of the guilt he felt when he was separated from his sister when he was a child. He jumped into the water to rescue her without hesitation.

The little girl was saved, but he was shot in the left leg while climbing onto the boat.

At the critical moment when De Xiu was about to fall into the river.

A strong arm pulled him out of the river.

And the owner of this arm is Nam Jin, played by Kang Jae-hoon.

This shot looks simple, but it was not that easy to shoot in reality.

Before the actual shooting, several or even dozens of rehearsals are required until the director thinks there is no problem.

When Hwang Jung-min's tactical vest slipped from Kang Jae-hoon's palm for the Nth time.

He wiped the algae off his face and emerged from the water, shouting:
"Jiang Jae-hoon! How many times have I told you to grab the belt!" "You keep thrashing around like an electrocuted hairtail fish!"

To be honest, Jiang Jae-hoon is really feeling wronged right now.

Hwang Jung-min has to portray the age changes over several decades in this drama, which naturally requires a lot of on-the-spot performance (improvisation).

And his impromptu struggles when he fell into the water just now were exactly the same as those of an electric-shocked cutlassfish, without any exaggeration.

"Ashi."

Furious, Hwang Jung-min threw a handful of water at Kang Jae-hoon.

If he wasn't afraid of delaying the filming time, he really wanted to push this kid into the water.

After struggling for an hour and a half.

The first real shooting begins.

"Seven shots and one take in the 27th scene!"

"Snapped!"

The crisp sound of the clapperboard was drowned by the sound of Hwang Jung-min falling into the water.

"Save Gollum"

Jiang Zaixun stared at Huang Zhengmin floating on the water and suddenly stretched out his arm.

This time, his fingers accurately caught the tactical straps that the props team had temporarily wrapped around his armpits.

At the moment when the veins on Jiang Zaixun's forearm bulged, the fishy and salty river water suddenly rushed into his nostrils - the splashes of water thrown up by Huang Zhengmin when he struggled covered his face.

"Camera advance!"

Director Yoon Je-kyun shouted into the intercom, "Unit 2, give Nam Jin a close-up of his profile!"

A few drops of water suddenly splashed onto the monitor screen.

The life rope held by Jiang Zaixun's left hand was stretched into a straight line, and his right hand was holding Huang Zhengmin's armpit to lift him up.

The burst of water splashed into his hair like shards of glass.

The water droplets hanging from her eyelashes fell down with her breathing, but she still had a half-smirk on the corner of her mouth.

The most amazing thing is that the bulging blue veins on his forearms were embedded in the fading transparent outline of the exploding water column.

to be frank.

Kang Jae-hoon looks very handsome in this shot, and the sexual tension is at its maximum.

This caused director Yoon Je-kyoon to wonder why he had to imitate Hwang Jung-min's acting of shrinking his face into a chrysanthemum.

Wouldn’t it be nice to follow the flower boy route like Song Joong-ki and reap the benefits of the times?
But he couldn't think about that right now.

Because Nanzhen in the camera shouldn't smile at this time.

However, before director Yoon Je-kyoon called out "cut," Hwang Jung-min's impromptu performance perfectly rounded out this seemingly blooper-proof shot.

His hand, which should have been limp, suddenly grabbed Jiang Zaixun's wrist, his nails almost digging into the flesh.

This is the instinctive reaction of humans when facing the fear of death, and of course it also contains reluctance and regret.

"Don't let go."

Hwang Jung-min's hoarse pleading mixed with bubbles surfaced.

In this way, Jiang Zaixun's seemingly cynical smile makes sense.

“There are only idols abandoned by their fans, but no idols who abandon their fans.”

"..."

"Cut!"

"Are you kidding me? You want to drown me and take over SEM?"

As soon as he heard the director call for cut, Hwang Jung-min immediately slapped Kang Jae-hoon on the back of the neck.

"No! It's the water splashing into my nostrils that makes my nose sore, and my physiological reaction is out of control."

When Jiang Zaixun was running away with his hands on his neck, he suddenly saw a corner of Huang Zhengmin's waist showing his blue and black striped underwear.
the other side.

A group of people gathered around the monitor to watch the replay.

“The veins are perfectly positioned!”

The lighting director suddenly slapped his thigh.

The bulging blood vessels on the side of Jiang Zaixun's neck looked like protruding steel bars under the strong light from the side, and even the shadow of his collarbone became a hard line.

"That last impromptu line in Nanzhen was good."

Even though I looked down on Kang Jae-hoon before.

But his performance in this scene did improve the assistant director's impression of him.

After everyone discussed it, the director shouted through the loudspeaker:

"If this one passes, we'll secure another one."

The staff quickly added two bags of artificial plasma to the river.

The makeup artist was also reapplying makeup to the actors at the same time.

"Seven shots and one take in the 27th scene!"

"Action!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)