The Haunted Monster Actor - Chapter 32



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Episode 32

Geon-hoo and Yuseol’s summer was short, and soon a long, never-ending winter came.

“Torso on the Blue” does not directly address the ‘end’ of Gun-hoo and Yoo-seol.

The movie only indirectly shows the figure of Yuseol left alone.

That Gunhoo is no longer by her side.

―Breaking news. As of now, the total number of missing people due to the ‘Parangho sinking accident’ is counted as 327. Of these, the number of confirmed deaths is… … .

Dark room.

Yuseol’s whole body is soaked in cold water.

―Meanwhile, the whereabouts of Mr. Lee, a former member of the maritime rescue team who participated in the rescue, have not yet been confirmed… … .

Instead of a light, the TV turned on constantly cast ominous shadows throughout the room of the ten-pyeong (about 10 square meters) pension.

―Unfortunately, the death has been confirmed, causing deep sorrow in everyone’s hearts… … .

Yuseol turned off the TV with her face buried in her knees.

The world has gone crazy.

‘Stay here and don’t move. Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon!’

As always, I was late for appointments, so I figured it would be the same this time.

It’s just a little late.

I thought that, as always, he would appear in front of me with a cheeky smile and hug me.

Light is streaming in through the gap in the curtains.

Only the slope of the light indicated the passage of time.

The rumor had stopped.

I waited, still standing.

Didn’t come.

‘It’s post-traumatic stress disorder.’

The cure was simple.

oblivion.

He said that if you consistently take purple pills that stop you from having nightmares and blue pills that get you out of depression, you can get rid of it.

He said that he would be able to forget it someday.

The doctor lied.

10 years.

When you swallow the blue pill, you will see blue waves before your eyes.

Dolls floating on the waves.

A bust with only the upper body exposed.

Among the countless torsos on that blue sea, there is you who never comes to mind.

‘Well thought out. Facing and deliberately exposing memories of the accident can be a positive therapeutic approach.’

Yuseol is a person who suffers from loneliness a lot.

I suffer from loneliness so much that I have never traveled alone.

So I looked for friends to travel with.

These are friends who have a similar kind of loneliness to Yuseol.

“hello?”

For the past ten years, Yuseol has not visited the beach.

Because every time I think of the ocean, I remember the moment you sank.

“Are the three of you here?”

Six people came.

“Why go to the beach in winter?”

I came to think of you, and therefore to sink.

* * *

“… …Cut, okay!”

With Maeng Jong-ho’s okay sign, an innocent light quickly returned to Yu-seol’s empty eyes.

Before she could fully take in the autumn seascape in front of the pension, Lee Seo’s gaze turned to one person.

“senior!”

The person who is monitoring the scene just filmed next to Maeng Jong-ho is none other than Hyun-soo.

As soon as Lee Seo saw Hyun Soo, who had appeared on the set for the first time in a long time, she ran over with a happy expression on her face.

There is a sense of something blessed in the voice of Lee Seo calling Hyun Soo, perhaps because she was still immersed in acting until just now.

Hyunsoo thought as he felt the aftermath of that emotion.

‘You’ve grown a lot since I last saw you.’

That was the first scene, the first take of today’s shoot.

Nevertheless, Lee Seo did a great job of portraying Yoo Seol’s sense of loss without much rehearsal.

Looking back at the script reading and the first shoot with Hyun-soo, I can say that it was a truly incredible growth rate.

And no one else but Jeon I-seo will feel this fact more deeply than anyone else.

“Senior, how was it just now? I had a feeling that something was going well, but I didn’t think it would be okay in one take! Am I… … an acting genius like you?”

After chattering for a while with the aforementioned expression on his face, Seo Lee asked Hyun Soo with a face that remembered something.

“Come to think of it, senior, you don’t have any filming to do today, right?”

You’re asking that now.

When Hyunsoo nodded, Leeseo continued speaking with a puzzled look on her face.

“Huh? But you came down to Taean on your day off?”

Hyunsoo answered with a smile.

“Lee Seo, I want to see your acting.”

“Huh? Why is my acting… …?”

“I think it’s necessary to keep an eye on what Yuseol looks like without Gunhoo.”

“ah…….”

The reason I came to the site even though there was no filming was simple.

“Maybe everyone was watching?”

“yes?”

If it’s Gunhoo, then maybe…

“Wasn’t he watching over the lonely Yuseol the whole time?”

The sadness that Yuseol felt after losing Geonhoo.

Solitude, loss, loneliness.

and.

A longing that can never be helped.

“The reason why Geon-hoo appears in front of Yoo-seol again is probably because of that.”

The look in Hyun-soo’s eyes as he spoke like that was the same as Gun-hoo’s.

I don’t know why.

After hearing Hyunsoo’s answer, Leeseo felt a pang in her heart.

No. Rather than feeling overwhelmed, it feels more like a part of me that was empty and hollow is being filled with warmth.

Even before acting, it feels like you can tell what kind of mind Kim Hyun-soo has for Gun-hoo.

It was only then that Lee Seo realized that Hyun Soo’s atmosphere was different than usual.

“Uh… … Is this really that one? Method?”

Hyunsoo waved his hand with a bewildered expression at Leeseo’s words.

“No, I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a method… … I guess you could call it a kind of warm-up?”

“The method is right! Oh, and why did you lose so much weight? What do you usually eat?”

“I didn’t starve, I just weighted. I had a photo shoot a while ago.”

It wasn’t just because of the photo shoot.

Hyunsoo soon becomes a statue made of ice.

As expected, Hyunsoo’s body was far from a statuesque figure.

‘Plus, there’s a scene in the latter half of the movie where we film underwater with my top off.’

That’s why Hyunsoo is currently training for underwater filming and lifting weights with Woo Jiyoon’s support.

anyway.

Maeng Jong-ho, who had been listening to their conversation, approached them and nodded with an expression of admiration.

“Wow, I can’t beat actor Kim’s passion for acting. Is that why? You asked me to send you the unedited footage?”

“Yes, Director. Thank you for your help in accepting my unreasonable request.”

Maeng Jong-ho nodded with a satisfied expression at Hyun-soo’s thanks.

Occasionally, there are some actors who make the wrong mistake.

The type of people who, by Maeng Jong-ho’s standards, are considered unprofessional, and who think that days when they don’t have any filming parts are ‘holidays’.

‘Yeah, this is what a real actor is like.’

Acting isn’t just something you do when the cameras are rolling.

“Torso on the Blue” is about the script, the director’s head, and… whether the camera is rolling or not.

‘It must live and breathe in the actor’s heart all the time.’

A world that is fictional, yet still alive and breathing.

That’s what Maeng Jong-ho thinks movies are like.

“Are you looking forward to filming this tomorrow?”

Starting tomorrow, Hyunsoo will also begin filming in the fall.

The scene where Gun-hoo and Yoo-seol meet again at the beach after 10 years has passed is the beginning.

Thinking about the scene she would take with Hyunsoo tomorrow, Seo felt her heart pounding for some reason.

“I’m really looking forward to seeing what kind of acting senior you’ll show us.”

This isn’t just talk.

Lee Seo is looking forward to feeling the same ‘thrill’ she felt during the script reading this time as well.

Now she knows too.

The reason why he was able to act out this level of emotion in such a short period of time was because of Hyun-soo.

This is because the existence of Gunhoo, as he played the character, felt real to him.

His feelings were not fake.

This means that the scenes with Gun-hoo are so firmly embedded in Seo-i’s heart that it doesn’t feel like acting at all.

Based on that solidity, Lee Seo was able to properly digest the loss of Yuseol.

‘How is it different from when I read the script?’

At that time, he was not yet ready to accept Hyun-soo’s acting and emotions.

‘But now it’s different from then.’

Having started filming before Hyun-soo, Lee Seo has spent the past month acting as Yoo-seol, who is left alone, and has imprinted the sadness of losing Gun-hoo on her whole body.

And tomorrow, I meet Gunhoo again after 10 years.

What kind of ‘Gunhoo’ will that man show us?

What kind of emotions will I feel when dealing with him like that?

Seo’s heartbeat did not stop easily throughout the filming.

* * *

#New number 66, the boundary between this world and the next.

“That’s the boundary between this world and the next.”

The village chief seemed to be somewhat out of his mind.

“Do you understand?! You must never go out to the beach at night! If you encounter any of the ghosts wandering the sea, you will never be able to return here!”

Yuseol and his friends burst into laughter at the shouting of the village headman who runs a shabby supermarket below the Gaetmaeul Pension.

“A ghost? Where in the world is there such a thing, Grandfather?”

“Yes. And there are more than one or two. I’ve seen them before, led by the gestures of those pesky ghosts… … .”

The air in this remote seaside village, where not even cars passed by, was quiet with only the occasional sound of waves.

The villager’s small mutterings were clearly heard by the three people’s ears.

“Things that sink into the sea with their own feet.”

The three people, including Yuseol, no longer laughed.

Instead, I asked something else.

“Do you have a flash grenade?”

“A flash grenade? Let’s see… How much of that monster are you going to eat?”

“Just… … a lot. Give me everything you have.”

The village chief nodded and bent his hunched back even further to find a flash grenade placed in the corner of the shelf.

A lump of gummy food wrapped in transparent packaging, barely within reach.

The village man who had been working hard suddenly muttered in a dejected voice.

“Well, maybe it would be better to go somewhere within arm’s reach. The sea… is a place you can’t see or touch.”

* * *

That evening.

The three people did not eat grilled meat.

I fell into a deep sleep, using the noise of the TV that had stopped receiving as my light.

Only two people fell into a deep sleep.

Yuseol couldn’t sleep.

The memories and nightmares of that day, which had become more vivid since arriving at the beach, prevented Yuseol from falling asleep.

I can’t get away from Gunhoo.

What if I can’t get out?

I have to go see him.

They say there are ghosts on the beach at night.

Maybe you are among those ghosts.

I stood up, pushing through the smoke.

I held my head, which felt like it was going to burst, and opened the door to the ten-pyeong (about 10 square meter) pension and went outside.

Shh …

Shh …

I walked, guided by the sound of waves swallowing up the darkness.

When I came to my senses, I was standing in a place so dark that I couldn’t tell if I was on the sand or in the sea.

And there, waiting for him, was a being made of the coldest substance in the world.

“… … Seol-ah.”

His voice was still warm despite his cold body.

Warmth overflowed and covered everything in front of my eyes.

Within, it burst out like a wave.

Continued in the next episode