Chapter 44: Ha Ji Yuan
Before he had taken a good class at Seoul University for a few days, Jang Sung-won took a leave of absence to shoot a TV series. This time, he is going to shoot a youth love idol drama "Beautiful Life", and what is surprising is that he is still the male lead. I don't know if it's because the time is coming, or because the signboard of the first university of Seoul University is too loud, this time Jang Sung-won actually rose to the position of the leading actor all of a sudden, which made him unbelievable, and originally he just went to the audition as a routine.
After nearly two years of hard work and hard work, he couldn't even reach a student ID card of Seoul University, which made Zhang Chengyuan secretly sigh that the world was unfair.
Of course, this is just his biased thinking.
In Park Byung-yeol's view, the identity of a student at Seoul University alone will not help anything, mainly relying on Jang Sung-won's own perfect appearance and hard work, accumulation and coincidence, in order to become the leading actor of this small investment TV series. According to his words, there is nothing to make a fuss about, you must know that the female number one of this TV series is only a rookie who has debuted for a few years, and the other supporting roles are not very famous actors.
The female number one of this drama is played by the cutting-edge actor Ha Ji Won. According to Park Byungyeol's gossip, Ha Ji Won debuted in 1997, two years earlier than Jang Sung-won, studied in the Film Performance Department of Dankook University, his talent is not very high, he is a representative of hard work, he has participated in four or five TV series before this, and at first he played some obscure small roles, until she acted in a campus drama "School 2" in 99 to make her start to emerge, and the high ratings of a youth drama "Secret" filmed the next year made her popularity rise a lot, and her acting skills were also highly appreciated. In general, she and Zhang Chengyuan are different types of characters, and their current achievements are a cut above Zhang Chengyuan.
When Jang Sung-won met Ha Ji Won at the script practice site, Jang Sung-won immediately had a great impression of her. Although Ha Ji Won's appearance may not be as beautiful as Kim Tae-hee, nor as cute as Sung Yoo-ri, he is also very dignified and beautiful, plus he has a humble personality, is calm, and has a hearty and generous smile, which makes people feel very embarrassed when they want to have a cold face.
Jang Sung-won also sensed from the depths of Ha Ji Won's gaze and subtle demeanor that her will was extremely firm, as if she was a stoic and unrelenting female general, in his mind, as long as there was no accident, Ha Ji Won's future would definitely be very bright.
In Ha Ji Won's eyes, Jang Sung-won is handsome, has a modest attitude, and is young, so he thinks he is very cute and has a good impression of him. Perhaps because both of them had a good impression of each other, the two quickly became acquainted.
Ha Ji Won's age is twenty-four this year, more than four years older than Zhang Chengyuan, but she has a beautiful complexion and delicate skin, and after putting on makeup, she really can't tell who is older than Zhang Chengyuan. This is also because Zhang Chengyuan looks much more stable and mature than his actual age, and if he grows a little more scum, he will look even older. Therefore, I am not afraid that the two will not seem to be right when they play a couple.
Soon, the filming of this TV series started, and when the TV series started filming, Zhang Chengyuan suddenly realized that it is really not an easy thing to be the leading actor sometimes, especially when the director is strict or the actor himself wants to act wonderfully.
Just two days after the filming of this TV series started, Jang Sung-won and Ha Ji-won encountered a considerable difficulty: a diving scene. The reason why I found it difficult was because the two had never been exposed to this kind of underwater sport before, and Zhang Chengyuan couldn't even swim.
When the assistant director proposed to the director to use a stuntman to shoot, Jang Sung-won, who likes to do everything himself, and Ha Ji-won, who works hard in everything, refused without thinking. After that, the director decided to shoot the other shots first, and gave them three days to practice their diving skills, requiring them to master a certain level of diving skills, at least to look like two good divers, not two rookies; If you can't do that, use a double to shoot.
It's not an easy task to get your diving skills up and running in three days, and still have the time to spare after each day's shooting.
Of course, it is not too difficult for Zhang Chengyuan, who has inhuman learning ability, after all, he has a smart mind and extraordinary skills, no matter what he can basically learn quickly, and he has a long internal breath, and he can easily rest for more than an hour, which is really a great help for underwater operations. Therefore, learning to swim and dive in three days or even one day is still possible for him. But for Ha Ji Won, who is just an ordinary woman, it is really a headache for her to learn an underwater skill that is not easy to master in a limited time.
Many people privately believe that the reason why the director made such a decision was just to take into account the face of Ha Ji Won and Jang Sung-won, hoping that they would be able to retreat from the difficulties so as not to affect the filming process. However, the director didn't expect Jang Sung-won to have what kind of anti-heaven learning ability, and how firm Ha Ji-won's will is.
Ha Ji Won never gave up on what he decided to do, and he likes to do it perfectly. Before her debut, she had been rejected in more than 200 interviews, and in order to reduce her weight from 53kg to about 46kg of the actress standard, she went out for a run every morning to exercise, and in order to sweat more, her whole body was wrapped in thick plastic wrap except for her face. She has done many things like this, and in order to realize her dream of becoming a successful actor, Ha Ji Won can pay a price unimaginable to ordinary people. So she didn't back down this time, and the purpose of her doing this was just to let the audience recognize her after seeing her serious attitude towards filming.
After three days of almost sleepless hard work, Ha Ji Won really succeeded, not to mention Zhang Chengyuan, he learned for a day and practiced various diving skills such as underwater survey, salvage, emergency treatment, etc., and even without carrying professional tools, he was able to move within ten meters below the surface for a certain amount of time. This made the diving instructor hired from a professional diving company think that he had learned to dive before, and that his level was about the same as his.
After Zhang Chengyuan learned well, he didn't slip away, but accompanied Ha Jiyuan every day, observed her movements, discussed the essentials of techniques with her when he came out of the water and told her the tricks he had learned, which benefited her a lot, and massaged her when she was exhausted, so that she could recover her strength quickly. Ha Zhiyuan can learn so fast, in addition to being hard and strong enough, Zhang Chengyuan has also made a great contribution, and after these three days of sharing weal and woe, the relationship between the two has grown by leaps and bounds, and it seems that they are old friends who have known each other for more than ten years.
Because the two leading actors have a tacit understanding and good acting skills, many NG scenes have been reduced, and this TV series was filmed a few points faster than expected, which also gave the crew members more time to rest, and the crew had a better impression of the humble and capable Ha Ji Won and Jang Sung-won, and unconsciously the courtesy received by the two in the crew rose a little.