Superstar From Age 0

“Let's get ready for the next shoot!”

It was Park Ee-deun's turn after Choi Jae-won.

The set where Park Ee-deun would go up looked like an ordinary living room with a sofa, a table, and a TV, but unlike the usual colors like black and white, it was a living room with popping colors.

“Wow! It's softer than I thought!”

While Park Ee-deun was bouncing his butt on the sofa of the set, seo-jun looked at the script that he had memorized by now.

[Park Ee-deun, who was lying on the sofa watching TV, straightens up and brightens his eyes when he sees Brown Black on the screen.]

“I knew Ee-deun liked Brown Black, but I didn't know there was such a story.”

“He said he was too embarrassed to tell you because he thought it would reach the Brown Black seniors.”

Jung Eun-sung's words made Seo-jun laugh.

“How did you think of putting it in the music video? Isn't it more embarrassing to be known nationwide than to be known only by your hyungs?”

“That's different. The Brown Black seniors are the ones involved.”

Jung Eun-sung's words made Baek Yi-hyun nod in agreement and say.

“It's easy to announce that you’re a fan in your neighborhood, but it's very embarrassing to tell the person directly.”

“Well, there are some people who don't feel that way.”

“Now the Brown Black hyungs know too.”

At Seo-jun's words, everyone giggled.

It was inevitable that Brown Black would watch the music video, since it was a song made by Hwang Yejun of Brown Black and Seo-jun also appeared in it.

“Well, they said we could put in another singer… but I liked the Brown Black seniors too much.”

Seo-jun smiled brightly at Choi Jae-won's words. It was a story that Brown Black would really like to hear.

“Cut! Let's do it one more time! Ee-deun, you look uncomfortable. Just lie down comfortably.”

Meanwhile, Park Ee-deun was struggling on the set. He used to lie down like a bum at the dorm, but he looked a bit awkward on camera at the set.

‘…Is it because it's a sofa?’

Isn't a sofa supposed to have an expensive backrest?

He remembered his own image rolling around on the floor and wondered if it would be better to shoot on the floor under the sofa, but he soon sighed lightly and lay down on the sofa as if he was bored.

After a few shots, he got an okay.

He tilted his head to stretch his neck after repeating the same posture several times.

He heard a cracking sound that was refreshing but not good for his joints.

“Shooting is not an easy job. How do you do this for months?”

“It's fun. You also perform a lot. You practice hard too.”

“That's fun… You're right.”

As Seo-jun smiled and said, Park Ee-deun nodded unconsciously without realizing what he was saying.

Shooting that was boring for someone could be fun for someone else.

“Let's start shooting!”

Park Ee-deun sat on the sofa where he had been sitting until a while ago.

Seo-jun sat a little away from where Park Ee-deun sat.

There seemed to be a transparent wall between them.

“Ready, action!”

The music of Blue Moon flowed out.

The camera showed the screen where Brown Black appeared and turned around to show Park Ee-deun.

He looked bored as he lay down before, but now he leaned forward and sparkled his eyes. His expression showed his excitement and thrill.

He didn't have to act this time.

He just had to show how he usually looked when he watched Brown Black.

He lightly tapped his feet and opened his mouth.

[From that high night sky]

[I saw a shining star]

The camera that showed Park Ee-deun as if he was singing along with Brown Black's song moved sideways and showed Seo-jun sitting next to him.

Director Jang, team Leader 1, and Ahn Da Ho looked at the monitor.

On one screen, Park Ee-deun sitting on the right side of the sofa and Seo-jun sitting on the left side of the sofa were visible.

Seo-jun, who had been following Choi Jae-won's image exactly until a while ago, was now sitting in the same posture as Park Ee-deun and acting as if he copied Park Ee-deun exactly.

‘There's nothing different from before…’

The clothes, hair, and makeup were all the same.

He didn't even have any touch-ups because of the short shooting time, but unlike Choi Jae-won who was calm, seo-jun looked like he was admiring Park Ee-deun with sparkling eyes.

‘This will be a big deal when it comes out.’

It would be noisy enough that Seo-jun appeared in the music video, but even the directors and staffs would be speechless when they saw Seo-jun's acting skills. Maybe some new works would come out inspired by this music video.

‘I don't know what kind of work it will be.’

Director Jang, who was scratching his chin, looked at the monitor and shouted.

“Cut! Okay!”

The quiet shooting site was once again bustling.

***

After Park Ee-deun's shooting was over, it was Jung Eun-sung's turn.

Jung Eun-sung looked around the set that was decorated like a movie theater.

It wasn't like a normal movie theater with hundreds of seats, but the seats were spaced out a bit in front and back and on both sides, and there were three rows horizontally and five rows vertically, a total of fifteen chairs in a stairway shape.

They were also not the usual black color, but pastel tones of various colors that looked like toys.

There was a screen of a decent size opposite the chairs, and the movie that was flowing from there was also Jung Eun-sung's life movie.

“I saw this movie in the theater too.”

Jung Eun-sung smiled and said at Seo-jun's words.

“If this movie hadn't been released then, I wouldn't have become a rapper.”

It was amazing, fun, and proud for Seo-jun, an actor, to meet someone who had a dream after watching a movie.

He had often heard stories of people who had dreams after seeing the jobs in movies or dramas, and his younger brother, subin, also started learning violin after watching [Over the Rainbow].

‘But I didn't expect to have someone who achieved their dream after watching a movie right next to me.’

While Seo-jun, who didn't even appear in the movie, was proud, the Blue Moon members looked at the movie flowing from the screen with bored eyes.

“I think I can memorize the lines by now.”

“Me too.”

They didn't know how many times they had watched that movie while living in the dorm with Jung Eun-sung.

“Let's start shooting!”

Jung Eun-sung took the popcorn and drink that the staff gave him and sat in the seat that the staff had told him in advance.

The right seat of the middle seat in the five seats arranged in three rows.

Seo-jun was going to sit on the left side of the middle seat as if he was a maniac.

Seo-jun and Blue Moon members who were sitting outside the camera ate the remaining popcorn.

“Ready, action!”

The light from the screen shone on Jung Eun-sung's face.

He ate popcorn and drank soda with a dumb expression on his face.

“I wonder why I can't imagine Eun-sung's puberty.”

“Me too. I've never seen it before.”

Baek Yi-hyun and Kim Si-hoon whispered with a giggle as they ate popcorn.

Seo-jun, Park Ee-deun, and Choi Jae-won who were sitting next to them also smiled softly at their words.

Jung Eun-sung, who was watching the movie with a chubby expression, stopped his hand that was reaching for the popcorn.

The scene that was playing on the screen was the same one that he had stared at blankly in the past.

Maybe it was because Team Leader 1 had asked him to match the timing, but he felt the same emotion and excitement as he did back then.

He heard an okay sound.

Kim Si-hoon and Baek Yi-hyun teased Park Ee-deun for being slower than the okay.

Seo-jun, choi Jae-won, and even Jung Eun-sung who was on the set laughed.

“Here are the popcorn and drinks.”

“Thank you.”

Seo-jun received the popcorn and drinks from the staff as props and climbed onto the set.

He sat in his designated seat, next to Jung Eun-sung's seat, holding the popcorn bucket in his left hand and placing the drink on the armrest of the chair.

“Ready, action!”

The rap flowed out of the speaker along with Blue Moon's music. It was Jung Eun-sung's voice, the main rapper.

Instead of the sound of the movie that was turned off for filming, blue Moon's music was heard. It seemed like Blue Moon's music was inserted as the OST of the movie.

The camera briefly showed the rapper in the movie, and then Jung Eun-sung's face. The rap that followed seemed to come from both the movie and Jung Eun-sung's mouth as he sat in the audience.

At the same time, seo-jun also thought of and looked at Jung Eun-sung's face and acted accordingly.

***

As they were about to move again after lunch for filming, the set became noisy.

Seo-jun and Blue Moon looked at each other with puzzled expressions.

“What's going on, Da Ho hyung?”

“There's a little problem with the lighting. They have a spare one, so it shouldn't take too long… Just wait a bit.”

“Okay.”

Seo-jun and Blue Moon nodded their heads with relieved faces at Ahn Da Ho's words.

So Seo-jun and Blue Moon sat on the waiting chairs prepared on one side of the set and waited for filming to resume.

“…It's taking longer than I thought?”

Judging by Team Leader 1 and Ahn Da Ho's silence, it didn't seem like a big problem, but it took longer than Seo-jun and Blue Moon expected.

On this hot summer day.

Baek Yi-hyun opened his mouth as he watched the staff running around sweating.

“Should we buy some ice cream?”

“Yeah. Let's do that.”

There was no snack better than ice cream on a hot day.

While Park Ee-deun and Kim Si-hoon quickly counted the number of staff members, seo-jun and Jung Eun-sung grabbed things to cover their faces.

Choi Jae-won and Baek Yi-hyun approached Ahn Da Ho and Team Leader 1 who were talking.

Ahn Da Ho nodded his head.

It was suffocating to stay on the set.

Team Leader 1 took out a card from his wallet and handed it to Choi Jae-won.

“Be careful.”

“Yes!”

Seo-jun and Blue Moon, who wore bucket hats and masks, headed out of the set with their manager as their guardian.

***

Ding dong.

The part-timer who was watching Red Crown's stage from last week on his phone raised his head at the sound of the bell.

People with long faces covered by hats and masks poured into the convenience store.

The part-timer took off his earphones.

‘They must be here for filming.’

This place was the closest convenience store to the nearby set, and usually only staff members came in and out, but sometimes celebrities came in person.

The part-timer rolled his eyes as he tried to figure out who they were, except for the person who looked like a manager.

They were a six-member boy group.

“Do you want to buy some drinks too?”

“Yeah. Let's do that.”

They split into two teams to buy ice cream and drinks.

It seemed like they were not only buying for themselves.

The gray hat turned his head toward the black bucket hat.

“Seo… orange juice?”

His name was ‘Seo’? That's unusual.

The blue hair color that peeked out from under the bucket hat was flashy enough to show that he was an idol.

They all had black hair except for him, so he stood out.

‘He must be an idol.’

He had heard that there were groups that didn't get along well, but these idols didn't seem like that.

The other members stuck to bucket hat's side and chatted away.

“What do you guys want to drink?”

“I’ll have this. But what if they can't fix the lighting? The music video filming will be delayed.”

“They said it's okay, so it should be fine.”

Most of the idols who came here were filming music videos, and this group was no exception.

The bucket hat and the members brought out a bunch of juices from the fridge and put them on the counter.

His eyes went to the blue hair that stuck out.

“Please pay for the ice cream first.”

He moved his hand quickly to pay for the ice cream before it melted.

The idol members also helped by putting the scanned ice cream in the bags.

“Hyung. Do you have ice packs?”

“There's ice here. Can't we just take some ice with us?”

“That should be fine. We can also put some in the drinks.”

He heard the voices of the idols and they sounded familiar. But he had too many items on the counter to think about who they were.

Beep beep beep-

The barcodes were scanned quickly.

“I’ll pay with a card.”

He took the card from the idol and looked up as he paid.

The idol smiled brightly at him. He smiled awkwardly back.

He felt like he knew his face, but he couldn't remember who he was.

The idols and the manager left the convenience store and he cleaned up the items.

He sighed and put his earphones back in his ears.

Then he shuddered.

Red Crown's sweet voice was gone and a male voice was coming out of his earphones.

The video must have continued playing and the next video was played by algorithm after Red Crown's video ended.

“Now that I think about it, this voice…”

He recognized it when he listened to it again.

He looked at his phone screen.

The idol's name was written in the title.

“It was Blue Moon.”

They were the ones who sang the song that was popular among ordinary people in the second half of last year.

They also appeared on some variety shows this year and became familiar with their faces.

He saw that the member who paid was Choi Jae-won.

He understood the algorithm this time.

They must have been from the same agency.

But there were only five people on the stage in the video, dancing to their song.

“…There were six of them?”

He tilted his head and posted a short message on a site he often visited.

He just thought of what happened to a girl group he liked before Red Crown.

[Blue Moon added a new member?]

It was the beginning of a storm.