Chapter 331:
Chapter 331
After the white Christmas, the end of the year was approaching.
Korea was buzzing with award ceremonies.
[MBS, Will the 6-episode ‘Spring Has Returned’ Win an Award?]
[MBS, Considering a New Award Category?]
[The Most Talked-About Drama of the Year, ‘Spring Has Returned’]
[The Discovery of New Actors? The 4-episode ‘Tomorrow’]
[Will Actor Lee Seo-jun, Who is Filming the Hollywood Movie ‘Survivors’, Attend?]
-MBS Drama Awards, looking forward to it??
=22 MBS swept the drama scene this year.
=The dramas that aired after Spring Has Returned were also pretty good.
-I bet Seo-jun will win all the viewer-voted awards??
-MBS is creating a new award category. It seems like it will end this year.
=22 It’s probably for Spring Has Returned and Tomorrow, which boosted the ratings since the beginning of the year. They might not have it next year.
=But they both deserve it. They had more buzz and ratings than the usual 16 or 20-episode dramas.
-?? Tomorrow wouldn’t have gotten this much attention if it wasn’t for Spring Has Returned?? It’s because they aired together.
=Well, I agree a little bit. But Tomorrow was fun too. The actors did well too.
-But Seo-jun won’t be able to come, right?
=He has a filming schedule, so he can’t come. The flight time is over ten hours.
=???
***
December 30th.
The MBS Drama Awards began.
The red carpet was filled with dazzling actors one by one.
The fans who were watching the red carpet from start to finish, hoping that Seo-jun might make a surprise appearance, drooped their shoulders.
-I guess Seo-jun won’t come after all.
-Seo-jun?? Work hard on filming??
[MBS Drama Awards Part 1 Ends!]
[The Acceptance Speeches of the Newcomer Award Winners!]
[The Actors Who Won the Excellence Awards for Monday-Tuesday and Wednesday-Thursday Series!]
-...They’re not giving awards to Tomorrow and Spring Has Returned?
=They said they’ll do it in part 2.
=Well, that makes sense. We’re still watching it too??
=22 I was going to sleep after seeing Seo-jun win an award... MBS...!
-As expected, there are a lot of ads??
The MBS Drama Awards Part 2 started with an idol performance.
“Hello, viewers. I’m actor Park Do-hoon,”
“Yoon Hye-in.”
Park Do-hoon and Yoon Hye-in, who came out as special MCs, greeted with a smile.
And then Kang Tae-young appeared on the screen.
He was sitting in the audience.
The cheers erupted at the appearance of the main actors of ‘Spring Has Returned’.
[Special Drama Category. Excellence Award.]
The 4-episode Tomorrow and the 6-episode Spring Has Returned were combined into a ‘Special Drama Category’.
A male newcomer award came out from ‘Tomorrow’ and Jung Bo-ram from ‘Spring Has Returned’ received a female newcomer award.
Everyone applauded for Jung Bo-ram, who was smiling brightly.
“Special Drama Category. Excellence Award.”
Park Do-hoon opened his mouth with a smile.
“Actor Lee Seo-jun for the role of Yoo Sung-jin. Congratulations!”
Fireworks went off and Lee Ji-seok, who was asked to receive the award on behalf of Seo-jun, went up on stage.
He received the trophy instead of Seo-jun and spoke in front of the microphone with a smile.
“I’ll receive the award on his behalf and deliver it to him, but we can’t miss his acceptance speech.”
Lee Ji-seok’s words made the PD who was in charge of the drama awards clasp his hands together.
He had checked several times for this moment.
“Please don’t let anything go wrong...!”
While the viewers were bewildered, the screen behind Lee Ji-seok, where [Special Drama Category, Excellence Award] was written, turned black.
[Hello, viewers. I’m actor Lee Seo-jun.]
The screen that had turned black brightened up and Lee Seo-jun appeared.
Some fans screamed at the sight of Seo-jun’s neat hair and bright sky outside the window.
-Is this a video?!
-Wow. Is it live or recorded?
-It looks like live?! It’s dawn in LA right now...!
Some fans who saw Seo-jun’s face shining in the morning sun on the screen screamed.
Song Yu-jung also answered the phone from Lim Ye-na, who called in a flash, and talked enthusiastically about Seo-jun’s glowing appearance.
His face looked more refreshing because it was morning.
[I’m sorry to greet you with a video. This is LA and it’s still morning. But I woke up early and watched the MBS Drama Awards. Congratulations to everyone who won.]
Lee Seo-jun, who had an earphone in one ear, spoke with a smile.
[I think the reason why such a short drama of 6 episodes became so popular was thanks to the interest and love of the viewers. I didn’t expect to win an award because my appearance was too short, but I got it thanks to the viewers. I’m really happy.]
Seo-jun’s sincerity was felt beyond the video.
[Haha. There are so many people I want to thank that it’s a big problem. PD Gong Hee-chan, writer Yoo Cheonga. Thank you for making such a good work. Thank you to all the staff and actors who worked and acted with me. Thank you very much to the viewers who loved Spring Has Returned. I want to show you more amazing acting in the future.]
Lee Seo-jun in the screen smiled brightly.
[Actor Lee Seo-jun, Best Couple Award, Excellence Award Winner!]
[Actor Lee Seo-jun, Netizen’s Choice, Popularity Award Winner!]
At the moment when Raymond Wish, who had been checking the situation, tried to shout something,
The floor collapsed.
Before people who were standing on it could react,
Dark black darkness swallowed them up.
***
“Cut, okay!”
At Jeffrey’s shout, actors who had been hiding under the set with bated breath peeked out one by one.
The actor who played the role of being crushed by a wall crawled out of a gap prepared under it.
Staff laughed at the sight of actors ‘reviving’ one by one.
The set that was higher than usual was all prepared for this scene.
They laid mats of chroma key color under the set and made the floor collapse at a good timing.
That way, it would look like actors really disappeared into the floor.
The rest would be done with CG.
Vanessa Olsen, who came out of a hole in the set, lightly pressed her hand over her pounding heart.
“I was a little surprised even though we rehearsed. Are you okay, Andy?”
“I had fun!”
Andrew answered cheerfully to Vanessa Olsen’s worry.
Andrew’s flushed cheeks and sparkling eyes seemed to tell his sincerity.
“What about Jun?”
Seo-jun smiled and said.
He missed and enjoyed this dungeon-like set.
These shoddy traps were quite useful when he first made dungeons. But come to think of it, he also fell into shoddy traps a lot.
It was because he lived as both weak and strong.
“I enjoyed it too.”
“...Kids these days are bold.”
Vanessa Olsen shook her head and everyone laughed.
Hahaha.
The planning team leader of Bearound, who followed suit laughing, whispered to Director Jeffrey.
“I think you don’t have to worry anymore.”
Jeffrey director tilted his head at the sudden remark of planning team leader and planning team leader smiled broadly and said.
“It’s what actor Davis Garrett said. You haven’t changed anything so far. He must have liked your revised script. Haha. I think you can relax now!”
“Is that so?”
Jeffrey director’s gaze turned to Davis Garrett.
It was true that he was quiet for someone who had written in the contract that he would modify the script as he pleased.
There were some parts that he changed, but they were not that big.
“Then don’t worry and shoot according to the script!”
The planning team leader asserted with satisfaction at the smooth shooting.
But a few days later.
He realized that it was too hasty.
***
“Can’t you be quiet!”
Raymond Wish shouted angrily.
At his loud voice, Milan Chellen, Vanessa Olsen, and Andrew Walker were startled and looked at Davis Garrett, no, Raymond Wish.
There was Raymond Wish with a twisted face.
Their eyes shook at his face.
It’s different from the script!
“Oh. No...!”
The planning team leader screamed at the accident that happened right after he asserted to Jeffrey director.
The original scenario’s Raymond Wish was calm and cold, but also warm-hearted, and comforted Lee Hyun-woo, who was suffering from claustrophobia.
And he made him regain his senses and gave him the will to live.
In other words, ‘Raymond Wish’ played by Davis Garrett was a typical ‘hero’ in a ‘disaster movie’.
But his personality changed completely with this one line.
‘Can’t you be quiet!’
It was irritation and anger that ‘the hero of the disaster movie’ should never show to ‘the weak’.
If the character’s personality changed like this, they had to change everything from the footage they had shot so far to the contents they would shoot later.
All those thoughts flashed through the planning team leader’s head like lightning.
He had to bite his lips and scream inwardly because Jeffrey director did not shout cut yet.
‘I was careless. I was careless!’
He underestimated Davis Garrett’s reputation.
He should have kept an eye on him instead of being complacent.
He had to revise the script again and adjust the shooting schedule and make the set and find the actors... The planning team leader’s head became dizzy at the thought of working overtime.
‘...But why doesn’t he shout cut?’
The actors must have been surprised by Davis Garrett’s impromptu acting.
They couldn’t continue shooting properly with that surprise, but only screams were heard in the shooting scene, not Jeffrey Rodex director’s cut sound.
‘Screams?’
The planning team leader jerked up his body at the pain-filled screams and slowly looked up at the set.
The other staff and Jeffrey director were already staring at the set with blank faces.
“Uh... uh... ah...!”
Only one person.
An actor who continued acting along with Davis Garrett’s impromptu acting.
Lee Hyun-woo, who ‘got worse by Raymond Wish’s nervous shout’, was there.
It was Seo-jun Lee.