The Haunted Monster Actor - Chapter 12
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Episode 12
Filming for the drama, which overcame a crisis that wasn’t a crisis thanks to Hyun-soo’s efforts(?), has now reached its 5th month.
“When You’re Dyed in Darkness” is a 100% pre-produced drama, airing as a 16-episode miniseries on Saturdays and Sundays on TVM, a comprehensive channel of a major media group.
Although it is a comprehensive channel, the broadcast channel is no longer an important issue for the production company thanks to the simultaneous broadcast contract with Netflix, a global OTT service.
Thanks to that, I was able to fully focus on my role without any pressure or forced marching due to my schedule, and before I knew it, I was about to start filming the final scene where I meet my end at Jin Young-mi’s hands.
To film the climax of the play, all the staff members were more nervous than usual and moved cautiously and busily.
While he was doing his final checks on the script, more focused than ever, someone came to find Hyun-soo.
“Do you have a minute?”
The person who came to find Hyun-soo was none other than the lead actress Joo-in-ah, who was going to film the climax scene with him.
I became close with her during the past five months of filming and we became comfortable talking to each other.
“What’s going on, sis?”
At first, it felt really awkward to call Joo In-ah, who I thought was just a celebrity I saw on TV, “noona,” but now it’s become second nature.
Anyway, there’s no way he would come here for personal reasons when we’re about to film an important scene.
“There is an emotional line here that I don’t quite understand.”
After all, he had come to discuss acting.
“Emotional line? Which part specifically… … .”
The owner started asking questions before Hyun-soo could even finish speaking.
“Here. I can understand to some extent that Jin Young-mi’s feelings for Lee Ji-woon are a kind of love close to longing. Then… … what were Lee Ji-woon’s feelings for Jin Young-mi?”
Advice on Lee Ji-woon’s character, not Jin Young-mi’s.
This was the reason why he came to find himself in the final chapter of the play.
A character’s emotions arise from the conflict between characters.
Analyzing the role you are given is not the only skill.
Joo In-ah knows that understanding the other character’s emotions is also essential for good acting.
‘My feelings for Jinyoungmi.’
Even for Hyun-soo, who has the memories and emotions of the serial killer Jang Ki-chun, it is a difficult question to answer.
The questions continued.
“Lee Ji-woon intentionally leaked the diary to Jin Yeong-mi, and through it, he hoped that only she would follow him. In the process, he could have killed her several times, but he didn’t. Jin Yeong-mi would have vaguely understood Lee Ji-woon’s two-facedness. But I still don’t quite understand. In Lee Ji-woon’s head… … No.”
What’s in his heart.
While acting as Lee Ji-woon, I continued to analyze the character based on Jang Ki-chun’s emotions.
-In order to let go of someone you love, you must first love them.
Lee Ji-woon was exposed to constant abuse from his father as a child, and his mother, who was his only shield, abandoned him and ran away.
To be more precise, he committed suicide by hanging himself.
―A love that is abandoned and neglected becomes something as twisted as its depth.
My mother’s corpse hanging from the ceiling obscured even the light streaming in through the small gap in the window.
Even the only light that could dispel Lee Ji-woon’s darkness has abandoned his existence.
From then on, his twisted hatred was directed at his mother, not his abusive father.
It went to all the ‘weak things’.
‘Mother was the only person who held young Lee Ji-woon.’
In episode 3 of the drama, there is a scene where Jin Young-mi and Lee Ji-woon, the shooter, get entangled in each other while chasing the criminal.
I don’t know if Hyun-soo’s interpretation of that scene is correct.
“Perhaps Lee Ji-woon saw something in Jin Yeong-mi that reminded him of his mother.”
“So, is it a kind of love for one’s mother? A kind of projection of maternal love?”
Hyunsoo shook his head.
“It’s not maternal love, and it’s definitely not love. Even if it were love, Lee Ji-woon is not the type of person to understand such feelings.”
“If not love, then what?”
The owner’s eyes became even more filled with doubt, and Hyun-soo’s eyes, who was continuing to answer her, had sunken indifferently.
“Maybe it was instinct.”
“instinct?”
“Yes, instinct.”
Every human being… … .
“Because I want to go back again.”
“I want to go back again… … . I feel like I know something, but I also feel like I don’t know something.”
Even if I just say this much, you probably realized it intuitively.
What are Lee Ji-woon’s feelings towards Jin Young-mi?
“I think I know, but I also think I don’t… … .”
Emotions bordering on chaos.
“Isn’t that it?”
“… … ?”
An incomprehensible feeling toward an incomprehensible object.
“That vague feeling itself might have been the darkness that Jinyoungmi had.”
The owner was deep in thought for a while, and Hyunsoo waited quietly for her to find an answer.
As expected, no answer was found.
Instead, it feels like the ambiguity that had been hanging over the owner’s face has cleared up a little.
“I think I understand a little bit. It turns out that asking my younger sibling was the right answer.”
After completing the script and character analysis, Kim Hyun-soo and Joo In-ah finally began filming the climax of the final chapter.
* * *
The interior of a dark cavity without a single ray of light.
Only the faint light of a flashlight on the floor vaguely illuminates the silhouettes inside the room.
Two people facing each other in a space where complete darkness and faint light are mixed.
This is Lee Ji-woon and Jin Young-mi.
After persistent tracking, Jin Young-mi discovered the existence of the underground secret room where Lee Ji-woon’s horrific murders were committed.
It is a space that proves Lee Ji-woon’s darkness, and at the same time, it is evidence that can prove his criminal activities.
That’s why he and she came face to face here for the last time.
There was no emotion in Lee Ji-woon’s eyes as he looked at Jin Yeong-mi who had come to find him.
“Kill him.”
Are you scared?
The gun aimed at Lee Ji-woon begins to shake like crazy.
Damn it.
Lee Ji-woon took a step closer to Jin Young-mi.
“Kill him.”
Damn it.
One more step.
“If you don’t kill me… … .”
An industrial screwdriver held in Lee Ji-woon’s hand.
“You die… … .”
“Why is that, senior?”
“… … ?”
“Why do my… … senior’s words sound like he’s telling me to kill him… … ?”
“… … .”
“Answer me, senpai. If you have a human heart… …!”
Before Jin Young-mi could even finish speaking, Lee Ji-woon rushes towards her like an animal.
Just then, darkness was about to swallow her up completely.
Taang―!
A gunshot like thunder rings out and Lee Ji-woon stumbles forward.
He collapsed into her arms.
“Why did you do that… … ?”
This can’t go on.
He himself hasn’t heard a single word yet.
“Why on earth…? What was I…? to you!?!
In response to Jin Young-mi’s question that was like a scream, Lee Ji-woon starts to whisper while spitting out red blood.
His and her entire bodies, covered, are dyed dark red like the cover of a black diary.
“Well… … I felt it from the day I first saw you.”
In the end, it had to turn out like this.
It is the law of nature that darkness disappears when it touches ‘light’.
Lee Ji-woon leaked his diary from the beginning with the intention of dying at Jin Yeong-mi’s hands.
If you are going to choose destruction, then dare to choose one of the things you have seen…
-I wanted to touch the brightest light.
Even his mother’s arms, which he could never reach, were like this.
“Was it warm?”
The last page of the diary was closed.
Lee Ji-woon lowered his head on Jin Young-mi’s shoulder.
She soon burst into a scream that was neither a laugh nor a cry.
The flashlight that was the only light in the dark room blinked several times before soon turning off completely.
The screams in the darkness also gradually died down… … .
… … Cut!
Even after the PD gave the cut signal, Hyunsoo and Ina remained glued to each other for a while.
While Jinyoungmi’s feelings had not yet subsided, Ina asked Hyunsoo.
“The Jiwoon you interpreted… … has given me such a hard time.”
“… … .”
“Let me ask you one thing. Did he have even a little bit of love for Yeongmi?”
The atmosphere in Hyun-soo’s mind, lost in thought due to the owner’s question, was somewhat different from usual.
It wasn’t that I was lost in Lee Ji-woon’s emotions.
A being clearly different from that.
The one who responded to the owner’s question was an unknown being hiding in the abyss of Hyun-soo.
He said only three words to his master.
-There was no salvation for me.
The light that darkness longed for was something that could not be found in humans in the first place.
* * *
“Okay! Both were perfect!”
With Yoo Jong-seok’s okay sign, the staff who had been watching with bated breath finally let out their breath they had been holding.
“The script is a script, but the acting by those two just now was really… … .”
“I’ve seen it several times, but why was it especially so today?”
The acting of these two people was difficult to even describe.
That means the acting was of that high a level.
It’s not just actors.
Thanks to PD Yoo Jong-seok, who oversaw the entire filming process, and the veteran staff following him, the quality of the work was able to surpass Go Eun-joo’s intentions.
“You guys, remember this scene well. Not all scenes run as smoothly as this one. You’ll miss it terribly later.”
At that moment when the assistant director and the youngest staff members nodded to the words of a senior AD, PD Yoo Jong-seok applauded and livened up the atmosphere.
“Okay, okay! The filming isn’t over yet, so don’t let your guard down until the very end! Let’s finish on a high!”
“Yes, PD!”
As Yoo Jong-seok said, filming the climax scene does not mean that everything is over.
There is still filming left for the remaining scenes of the final episode and the epilogue scenes.
The flow of the scenes to be filmed thereafter is as follows.
High-ranking police officials decide to cover up Lee Ji-woon’s death as a death in the line of duty in order to cover up the fact that a police officer, of all people, was the culprit behind the serial murders.
The ‘Black Killer’, of whom there are no official records anywhere, was forgotten by the world.
The play ends with Jin Young-mi, who has grown to harbor darkness in her heart as time passes, holding a black diary in her arms.
“The prop team stays and works hard! The rest of us can clean up and leave work!”
“Yes, thank you all for your hard work!”
The journey of five long months has come to an end.
As I said before, other staff and actors still have scenes left, but since Lee Ji-woon is dead, Hyun-soo no longer has scenes left.
Yoo Jong-seok approached Hyun-soo and opened his mouth.
“Thank you for your hard work, Actor Kim. Thanks to you, I think filming will end sooner than scheduled.”
It’s not an empty promise.
The other actors who were inspired by Hyun-soo all put their heart and soul into filming after that.
As a result of all the main and supporting actors giving their all for the project, filming was able to continue faster than scheduled.
“Rather, it was thanks to the director that I was able to learn and approach filming every day.”
“Haha, just like Senior Jang said, your problem is that you are too humble.”
Yoo Jong-seok continued speaking, patting Hyun-soo on the shoulder with a cheerful expression.
“Oh, and about the trailer we were talking about last time.”
“yes.”
“As per the writer’s opinion, it has been decided to write the scene of Lee Ji-woon’s ‘first appearance in the forest’. It is scheduled to air early next month… … The preview will probably be released next weekend.”
“Huh? My god is appearing alone in the trailer? But the main character is definitely… … .”
As he spoke, Hyun-soo’s gaze turned to Joo-in-ah, who was checking the remaining shoes next to him.
The owner, feeling the gaze, shrugged her shoulders and opened her mouth.
“Considering the overall mood of the drama, I think that’s fine too. Since the writer’s thoughts are right, there’s no need to worry about what I think.”
“but…….”
“But what a but. There is no scene that reveals the identity of this drama as much as that scene. So you can be proud.”
And a week later, the official trailer for the drama “When You’re Dyed in Darkness” began airing.
An interesting thing happened in relation to this: even though the drama had ended, the channel’s viewership ratings increased slightly while the trailer was being aired.
It all started with a comment response on an Internet video platform.
– It’s my first time seeing your face… … Who is it?
-He seems to be a new actor, but his force is no joke.
-It’s gruesome. Did you bring a real murderer from somewhere?
―The trailer was well-chosen, and I’m looking forward to writer Ko Eun-joo’s next work.
―Watch from the first episode!
As the comments on the YouTube platform were unusually negative, the production company decided to take a chance and even edited and distributed a ‘short video’ containing Lee Ji-woon’s first appearance.
The number of views in one week was a whopping 300,000.
This was a very unusual figure, given the lack of star actors to fuel the box office.
The face of unknown actor Kim Hyun-soo began to become known in South Korea at a faster rate than expected.
Continued in the next episode 
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