On the morning of March 9, at Incheon Airport, Jang Sung-won met with a group of actors and crew members of the "IRIS" crew to prepare for some location filming in Akita Prefecture in the northeast of Japan's main island of Honshu.

According to the practice of filming TV dramas in South Korea, it is usually necessary to shoot on location first, and then return to China to shoot other scenes, so as not to have no time to shoot location scenes after the TV series is broadcast. Of course, in today's economic downturn and the depreciation of the Korean won, usually only big-budget TV dramas will go abroad to shoot location scenes, and most of them are only two or three weeks, but the "IRIS" crew's trip to Japan is expected to stay for nearly a month, and a few months later, they will go to Hungary in Europe for another filming trip of about a month, which shows how big the investment in this TV series is.

To make a slight comparison, MBC TV's annual drama "East of Eden", which claimed to invest 25 billion won last year, but actually spent only about 18 billion yuan, is expected to shoot 50 episodes, while "IRIS" is only expected to shoot 20 episodes, but the investment is 20 billion won.

After comparing the two, it can be found that the investment in "IRIS" is far higher than that of "Eden", and many media have regarded it as the biggest investment in the history of Korean TV dramas. Not only that, this TV series is also South Korea's first spy war-themed action drama, coupled with a huge cast, so when the news of Ji Lu's start of filming came out, it immediately attracted the attention of countless people.

But at the same time, it also brought a lot of pressure to the crew and actors. As a result, the crew, actors, etc. all attached great importance to this TV series, and began strict training in martial arts, firearms, car skills, acting skills, language and other aspects from the beginning of the year.

But. When everyone is training enthusiastically. But there was one person who didn't come to the crew to report for a long time.

This person is Zhang Chengyuan. He didn't come until today, when the crew was going to Japan for filming.

If he was filming film and television dramas or busy with other work before, it would be fine. But it is said that he only rested at home for more than a week and did almost nothing. In this case, I think the crew members should not have any good opinion of him.

But what is strange is that when they met this time, everyone did not have any dissatisfaction with him, but many people came forward to greet his physical condition.

It turned out that the cunning Zhang Chengyuan wanted to have a good reunion with his sisters. and did not cause dissatisfaction among the crew members of "IRIS", so Lin Jixiu let out a rumor that due to the filming of "My Love by My Side", he lost too much weight, so that after filming the scene, he was very injured, his body was very weak, and he couldn't work, so he stayed at home to recuperate during this time. This not only did not make people feel dissatisfied, but on the contrary, many media and people admired his professionalism and expressed great concern for his physical condition.

Although this behavior is somewhat unethical, it is still to this day. Zhang Chengyuan didn't bother to be ashamed, because he already knew that the essence of the entertainment industry was originally just deception. If you blindly tell the truth without distinction at any time, then any artist, including a small number of artists with a really noble character, will not be able to survive. Moreover, compared to others packaging ruffians and hooligans as humble gentlemen, and sluts as jade girls, his little lie is nothing at all.

Of course, he won't lie to anyone if he doesn't have to. Because he told too many lies, it would not only affect his heart, but also be easily recognized, if it weren't for the guilt of his sisters who hadn't been with him for a long time, and he felt that a slight delay of a few days would not affect the start of filming of "IRIS", he would not have told this lie. After all, for him, there was no need for training in martial arts, firearms, car skills, languages, etc., because he was already very proficient in these.

In addition, in order to show that he was indeed not playing a big name and not participating in the pre-filming training, he came to the airport early this time, and then shook hands with director Kim Kyu-tae, Yang Yun-ho and other staff members one after another, and apologized to them quite sincerely. With his current value and status, although this overture is a bit contrived, the effect is amazing, and it immediately makes many people have a good impression of him.

And directors Kim Kyu-tae and Yang Yun-ho's perception of him is a little more complicated. At first, they deliberately approached Jang Sung-won and invited him to star in the play, and Jang Sung-won agreed, but only a few days later, the boss of the production company, Jung Tae-won, wanted to kick Jang Sung-won away and replace him with his favorite actor Lee Byung-hun, at that time, they thought that Jang Sung-won must have missed the show, and they felt guilty. didn't want Jang Sung-won to get rid of Jung Tae-won in three or two clicks, so that he risked damaging his reputation and offending Lee Byung-hun and others, and invited Jang Sung-won back to the crew, which made them fully realize Jang Sung-won's energy.

For this kind of capable person, they don't dare to offend, and they don't dare to drive him at will as a director, so this time Zhang Chengyuan did not participate in various special training organized by the crew on the grounds of filming movies and recuperating his body, and they did not dare to disagree, and they were even ready to "As long as Zhang Chengyuan is not too excessive and does not affect the filming of the TV series, then he will agree to some special requests in the future". And after seeing Zhang Chengyuan at this time, he was even more modest. Of course, in front of so many staff, they would not put a low profile on Zhang Chengyuan.

Soon after, Jang Sung-won met with actors such as Kim Tae-hee, Jung Jun-ho, Kim So-yeon, Kim Seung-woo, and Choi Seung-hyun.

Among them, Zheng Junhao also cooperated with him once in the musical short drama "Precious Promise" co-starred with Lee Hyori in 07, and at that time, Zheng Junhao played the same male number two as now, and this time he should still be a pair of love rivals in the old-fashioned love triangle.

In Zhang Chengyuan's eyes, Zheng Junhe is a senior actor with good looks and good acting skills, but that's all, plus he is a year older than him, and his love is not compatible, so he has no idea of having a deep friendship with him. At the moment, I just politely saluted him.

Another actor who has a slight intersection with Jang Sung-won is Choi Seung-hyun, a member of Bigbang, one of the hottest popular singer groups nowadays, alias TOP. On Lee Ji-eun's debut stage last year, due to the relationship between his teammate Jiang Dacheng, Jang Sung-won also greeted this Choi Seung-hyun, and he gave Jang Sung-won the impression that he was very restrained and didn't talk much, but the etiquette was also thoughtful.

After seeing Zhang Chengyuan this time, he was still quite restrained, and after saluting Zhang Chengyuan, he was speechless, and he didn't know if he was born with such a personality, or he was nervous when he saw a senior actor with a huge aura like Zhang Chengyuan.

And Jang Sung-won's perception of him is very average, and he is not at all enthusiastic when facing his teammate Kang Dae-sung, because he actually kissed Lee Hyo-ri at the MFMK Music Awards last year. Although he knew that it was just a stage performance, and it was the director of the program team who asked him to do it, Zhang Chengyuan was still a little unhappy.

Of course, this little pimple will not make him angry with this Cui Shengxian or deliberately trouble him, but if he wants him to give Cui Shengxian a good face right away, he really overthinks Zhang Chengyuan's open-mindedness and underestimates the importance he attaches to Li Xiaoli and other sisters. So he just shook hands with Cui Shengxian and ignored it.

As for Kim So-yeon and Kim Seung-woo, Jang Sung-won is dealing with them for the first time, and he doesn't know much about them. I only know that Jin So-yeon debuted a few years earlier than him, and she is a few years older than him, and the horn cesium played in this drama is also friends and enemies with the male number one he plays, and it seems that there will be some emotional entanglements. In this regard, Jang Sung-won doesn't feel anything, although this Kim So-yeon is also very beautiful, but compared with Kim Tae-hee, in his eyes, it is much worse, and it is not worth his attention.

As for Kim Seung-woo, Jang Sung-won's deepest impression of him is that he and his wife Kim Nam-joo are both famous actors with extraordinary achievements in the entertainment industry. Maybe in another ten years, Jang Sung-won and Sung Yoo-ri, in the eyes of the Korean people, will be Kim Seung-woo and Kim Nam-joo at this time. Of course, Jang Sung-won is confident that his and Sung Yoo-ri's future achievements will surpass the national couple of Kim Seung-woo and Kim Nam-joo.

When the crew members greeted each other, it was almost time for the plane to take off, so everyone got on the plane and sat down one after another, and Jang Sung-won sat directly next to Kim Tae-hee.

He and Kim Tae-hee are college buddies, former artists of the same company, and have had many scandals, and their intimate relationship with each other can be said to be almost well-known in South Korea, so there is no need to pretend to deliberately avoid suspicion. As long as they don't act too intimate in front of people, no one will say anything irresponsible to them, and even when the news came out that they were going to play a couple in the TV series this time, it immediately aroused strong attention and eager expectations from the audience, and they all wanted to see what the two famous actors with top education and appearance from South Korea's highest universities would look like, what they would feel, and what kind of tacit understanding and beauty they would have when they fell in love.

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It takes about two hours to fly from Incheon Airport in South Korea to Akita Airport in Japan, and Zhang Chengyuan is idle, so he chats with Kim Tae-hee and asks: "Sister, have you trained hard during this time, have you been injured?" After a while, he asked, "Sister, how are your acting preparations?" After a while, he said, "When we get to Akita Prefecture, should we take the time to take a look around the neighborhood and feel the local atmosphere?" ”

However, Kim Tae-hee was not in the mood to patiently answer his question, because the TV series was about to start filming, she was under a lot of pressure, and she didn't fall asleep until late last night, so she didn't have much energy this morning, and she wanted to take a nap on the plane at this time, so after hearing Jang Sung-won's question, she just dealt with it casually a few times, ignored it, and fell asleep after a while. Of course, this is also because she has a good relationship with Zhang Chengyuan, so she dares to snub Zhang Chengyuan like this, if she changes to other actors with a similar status to Zhang Chengyuan to talk to her, she will definitely cheer up and talk to him.

Seeing Kim Tae-hee fall asleep so quickly, Jang Sung-won felt helpless, but after all, he didn't dare or bear to disturb her anymore, so he closed his eyes and pretended to sleep at the moment. Because he found that several flight attendants saw that he was idle at this time, and seemed to have an intention to come up to him for an autograph or even a conversation. He has always been annoyed by this kind of thing, but because of the demeanor of celebrities, it is sometimes inconvenient to pull down his face and refuse, so he resorted to this method of pretending to sleep to refuse them thousands of miles away. (To be continued......)