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My 1 day actress story on June 30 of the movie "A movie is movie".

From 1 week ago, there was announcement that extras are required.
But it was raining almost everyday, so the filming was delayed again and again, so the date couldn't be fixed.
On Sunday night, I got a sms from Youngsosa (So Jisub daum cafe community - note di Misa) admin that more extras are needed.
And the date is the next day, Monday morning 7:50am.
So I sent sms to all ajumma fans I know, only 6 (including me) replied that they can join.
The next morning, I woke up at 5:30am then arrived at the place at 7:50am exactly.
There were a man from recruiting company and we 10 Jisub fans.

At 8am, we walked to the location, there were about 60 real extras and a white van and black van.
I heard the filming was finished after 12am last night, but they were already there from 7am.
Manager Cho saw us and surprised. It seemed he didn't know at all that fans to come to work.
Soon Jihwan and Jisub came out from vans.
It was my first time I saw Jihwan in person. He was very slim, had soft face line, looked womanly which was unexpected to me.
Jihwan is taller than Jisub, but Jihwan is slim, Jisub has very wide shoulder.
Jisub looked bigger than Jihwan.
Jihwan was wearing polished casual wear while Jisub was wearing black suit and white shirt, wrinkled all over, with matted hair.
His face was darker than before. both had scars on their faces.


At first, we were sitting and watching other real extras are performing with Jisub & Jihwan.
They did very good. They made their own situation and acted by themselves,
such as, phone calling while walking, saying hi to friends, crossing the crosswalk...
We fans said, "They're doing so good, we can't do that. Let's just sit and watch them doing."
But soon, we were pulled out.
I and another fan sit on the bench, Jisub passes by us.
We just ignore him and keep chatting. (sounds easy?)
This scene was filmed more than 10 times. So Jisub had to come and go in front of us many times.
We should not disturb him acting, so we too concentrated on acting, just chatted by ourselves.

Next was Soota (Jihwan). He also passed by us. But Soota is a celebrity. We should not ignore him.
When we saw him, I should be surprised, and my fellow performer should drop her parasol and stand up.
It was so difficult to act. we were scolded that our reaction was not active enough.
We both wore sunglasses to hide our eyes, (to steal a glance at Jisub)

The next scene was that we walk along the sidewalk, Jisub passes by us.
We 10 fans quickly occupied locations around Jisub. (to be closer to Jisub of course)
fan#1 was standing face to face with Jisub, in 80cm distance.
fan #2,#3 were standing back to back with Jisub.
I and another fan were standing in front of them and watching all 4 persons.
Other fans were sitting on the bench beside the sidewalk watching all 6 persons.
Jisub was surrounded by us. It was so funny to me. It was difficult to swallow a laugh.
But as the director shouted "Action!" we acted very naturally and smoothly.
This scene was filmed more than 10 times too.
The acting was no problem, but while we were in standby status, we can't help but laughing.
I had to wear sun glasses. Jisub looked very embarrased to see us as well.
But anyway we completed this scene successfully.

The director had a lot of conversation with Jisub.
It seemed he discusses everything with Jisub.
When Jisub talks with director or other crew, he smiles showing his white teeth, it was so pretty.
It was different from smiling while acting. I could see smiling Jisub a lot all day long, which was the best for me.


Director Kim Ki Duk came to cheer up.


Next was lunch time.
Jihwan entered into the cold noodle restaurant around there, but Jisub went away riding his white van.
Maybe he ran away from us...
The lunch was hamburger. I didn't want to eat hamburger, I wanted to eat food from restaurant.
But it's 1:10pm and we were told than we must gather again in 1:30pm. So I had to eat hamburger...
The hamburger was cool and the cider was warm (It should be opposite)
But we all ate Big Mac so quickly. Anyway we were hungry.
We fans are temporary, so it's OK to eat hamburger.
But as I saw crews and other real extras were eating the same hamburger, it was so pitiful.
It was sunny, and there's no shade. The only drink was warm cider.
We thought we must treat them something.
So we 10 fans gathered money, 10,000 won per person.
We bought 100 bottles of vitamin drinks and Ginseng drinks for crews, brought them to director.
And bought 6 of starbucks ice coffee for Jisub and BOF members, brought it to his van.

Afternoon work began.
The first scene was, I'm looking at the china of china store, Jisub passes by me.
This scene was filmed many times too.


We became friends with movie crews. We sat and made jokes to each other.
Over there, the climax and the last scene of the movie was being filmed.
Well, I just volunteered extra to see Jisub, but I was exposed by the spoiler unexpectedly.
I didn't want to know the ending, but I had to know,
even though watching Jisub's explosive acting was so great to see.
This scene was so important, so it was filmed from many different angles. This one scene took 6 hours.
It's afternoon, many tourists gathered. So the filming was stopped again and again.
The sunlight was so strong, it was so hot.
Some of us were picked out, others were sitting in the shade just watching.

As I heard from crews, after this In Sa Dong filming, they go to Il San to film all night long.
And Jisub goes to Japan tomorrow to attend movie premiere.
But he has signing event on July 5th. when he goes and when he comes? I thought that's too much.
It was 5pm and this climax scene is being filmed now, don't know when it can be finished.
And there's another overnight work at Il San? then he has an event in Japan tomorrow?
Hey you must let him get some sleep before you force him keep working.

After one day working as extra, I realized that actor is a 3D job. (dirty, dangerous, difficult)
It was already 5pm, I had to go home, Jisub was still filming the climax scene.
Later I heard the scene was completed at 9pm, then they moved to Il San and continued to film until 8am,
then Jisub went to the airport directly from there at 9am, to ride 9:30am flight to Japan.

I hope Jisub has enough rest after finishing all this terrible schedule.
But when? he has signing event on July 5. Many CF filming schedules are waiting for him.
Soon the drama Doctor Stop begins.

Well, it was wonderful experience and I was happy to see Jisub for 9 hours.
Find me in the movie (only if my scenes are not cut).

p.s. OMG that's me with red shirt!
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