Chapter 352

Swearing makes others shrink back. The tension multiples if the swearer is in a superior position to the one that was sworn at. If that superiority stemmed from authority, then talking back was just a dream.

One man standing behind one of the cooking tables paled. He looked at the assistant director with a stiff posture just like a puppet. The assistant director glared at that man.

“Is everything a joke to you?”

“I’m sorry.”

“This is the third time you said that. Hey, is this line so hard? You have a single line, and that’s too hard for you? What are you? A famous actor? Are you an actor that we have to understand even if you cause multiple NGs?”

“I’m sorry.”

“You should be. You’re making numerous people wait. You haven’t been to the military, have you?”

“I haven’t.”

“This is why people need to do their military service.”

The assistant director that was swearing at that man ran to the camera when the producer called him. The scolded man looked down. Maru clicked his tongue inwardly. He couldn’t tell the difference between this place and a nursery.

At the beginning of the shoot, the atmosphere wasn’t that bad. The assistant director didn’t use any emotion-provoking words after the camera started rolling. Cues and cuts continued to be spoken, and something erupted when the shoot made some progress.

It was the scene where Lee Miyoon went around the competition area and evaluated the contestant’s food. Just when she was about to say her line, she choked on the food and started coughing. Rice grains scattered from her mouth and went all over a minor actor’s face. The staff quickly came and handed him some tissues, and the minor actor just calmly wiped them off his face. It was a simple accident, and nothing was strange about it until Miyoon had something to say.

“What’s up with your expression? So anything that comes out of my mouth is dirty, huh?”

An actress over fifty years old suddenly started picking on a man who looked like he seemed to have entered society. The producer, assistant director, and the other staff members didn’t even think about stopping her. They didn’t dare. It was obvious from their face.

In Maru’s perspective, the man reacted really well. He did not become angry, and he did not frown either. He just calmly wiped the food off his face. It wasn’t like he could say ‘that must have been refreshing for you!’ or something like that. The silence was his way of being considerate, and as the elder, she could’ve just apologized and be done with it, yet she decided to pick on him and made everything worse.

Five minutes - that was the amount of time that the man had to listen to all sorts of curses from the actress because of his ‘crime’ of having ‘rice grains scattered on his face’. In Maru’s opinion, the man was just unlucky. It was too unfair to ask for any responsibility from the man. It’s just that bird poop fell from the sky, a very runny one too. It would be much easier for the man to treat the event that way. If he thought that he was just unlucky, he could smile at least.

However, what happened after that couldn’t be just described as ‘having no luck’. Miyoon frowned whenever she went in front of the man’s table. She raised her hand and stopped the shoot and requested for a retake, saying that she didn’t like the man’s expression. Being pointed out, the man showed his emotion for the first time in front of Miyoon. He made a panicked face. That became the trigger. Miyoon snorted before returning to her place. She didn’t say anything. However, it was clear to everyone, especially the person in question, that it was a threat.

I boiled some eggplants and mixed it up with some doenjang. - that was the man’s only line. The shoot began again. The man couldn’t say that line until the end. Miyoon raised her hand and told him that he was awful.

“Is that all you can do? Have you not learned acting? What the hell is up with your pronunciation? Even a child in a nursery would do better than you. Do I really have to spell this out for you? Huh? Is that it?”

She was clearly picking on him. Maru saw her making a vile expression seeing that the man endured until the end. She seemed to be enjoying the situation. Let’s see how long you last - her expression seemed to be saying those words.

That repeated until the assistant director stepped in. The assistant director chased Miyoon with his eyes even as he scolded the man. It was like he was telling her to recognize his loyalty to her. When Miyoon made a faint smile, the assistant director picked on the man even harder. Just like in the old military. If there was a canteen lid, then the assistant director would probably have told him to smack his head against the lid[1].

Maru praised the man for his calmness. Pointing out non-existent mistakes to delay the shoot wouldn’t be able to last forever. No matter how famous the actress was, there was no way she could delay the time of numerous actors and staff members here. She should probably have to make compromises at some point. He thought so.

“You really don’t change at all. Do it again!”

A chopstick bounced off the table before falling on the ground. Miyoon scanned the man before turning around. The man was just looking at the chopstick on the ground. Just before, he picked up the chopstick, but now he was just looking at it like a statue.

It seemed that Maru was wrong. Maru frowned. Having returned to her standby position, Miyoon laughed with her manager. Her hands were pointing at the man.

Was that what a pro was? Miyoon seemed pretty satisfied with trampling on a junior and treating him like a plaything, as she waited for the cue. This was probably the last time. Just then, the man took off his toque as he left his position.

“Hey, you f.u.c.ker! What are you doing! Go back to your position!” The assistant director took this opportunity to shout.

“I’m sorry, I can’t do it anymore.”

The man spoke as he lowered his head. His face looked like he was in the centrifuge. It was crumpled slightly. His unvent frustration exuded out of his entire body.

“Oh, my word. Is this what the younger generations are like these days? How scary. Are you going against me just because I admonished you just a tiny little bit? What is up with the entertainm