Peninsula: I can steal the luck of disgraced celebrities

The casting for the male lead in "Bad Man" was completed a few days ago. Although no official announcement has been made yet, the three of them have discussed it privately and have basically finalized the decision.

The male lead will be played by Kim Nam-gil, who recently became one of the most popular male stars in South Korea with his role in "Queen Seondeok".

Choosing him means he can guarantee high viewership ratings and has acting skills.

His decadent yet sharp temperament, that contradiction, is very suitable for portraying the male lead's "extreme evil" and "broken good".

Lee Hyung-min's gaze shifted back and forth between Lin Pu-zhi and Lee Yue-xi, then he lowered his head and wrote something on the resume.

His pen paused for a moment, as if he were making a decision.

Lin Puzhi.

"Yes, Director."

Lee Hyung-min put down his pen, pulled a page from a stack of scripts on the table, and said, "Try this scene. You have ten minutes to prepare."

Lin Puzhi took the page.

"How do I activate the 'Super Luck' mode? The difficulty hasn't decreased, and they've even added bonus questions?"

Lin Puzhi was puzzled, but after watching the scene, he understood.

"This isn't a scene for the second male lead; it's for the male lead."

He glanced at Li Yuexi, who was sitting in the corner. The little girl was swinging her legs, looking at him with bright eyes, completely unaware of how much his hug had tilted the balance in the conference room.

This scene has no dialogue; it relies entirely on eye contact and body language.

Lin Puzhi knew that his "Strong Luck" was working.

It's worth noting that he initially won over Choi Moon-seok with his expressive eyes and body language.

If you draw this sample, it's like Qin Shi Huang eating Sichuan peppercorns—you've won big!

He spent eight minutes adjusting his state, then closed his eyes and immersed himself in the role.

When he opened his eyes again, his entire aura had changed.

He walked slowly to the center of the conference room, as if it were not a smooth floor, but a muddy road in a downpour.

He didn't deliberately act "cold," but his body had already begun to curl up slightly, and his shoulders unconsciously hunched inward, as if rainwater was pouring down his neck and into his collar.

His eyes changed.

It was no longer Lin Puzhi's calm and kind demeanor, but the eyes of an abandoned, wounded young animal.

It contained an unbelievable sense of terror and pleading, along with a budding, sharp hatred.

The air in the conference room seemed to have been sucked out.

He "looked" at the non-existent door that was tightly shut to him, and let out a suppressed, almost sobbing gasp.

Then he bowed his head in the "torrential rain".

Li Yuexi's legs stopped wobbling. She stared blankly at her brother, her mouth slightly open.

A few seconds later, Lin Puzhi raised his head.

The hatred that had been there before vanished, replaced by a chilling, cold calm.

His eyes became like two bottomless dry wells, swallowing all his pain.

The corners of his mouth slowly curved into a very shallow smile.

That wasn't a smile; it looked like a fresh scar.

The performance has ended.

The meeting room was deathly silent.

Sometimes, silence is the best response.

Lin Puzhi brought the male lead's "extreme evil" to life.

At least, he's no worse than Kim Nam-gil.

Li Yuexi was the first to react.

She jumped off the chair, ran to Lin Puzhi's side, and grabbed his hand.

"Brother, were you very sad just now? Yuexi looked like she wanted to cry."

Lin Puzhi looked down at her, and the expression that belonged to Shen Jianxu faded from his face like a receding tide.

He crouched down and patted her head. "Brother is acting."

"What does acting mean?"

"It's just pretending to be sad."

Why pretend to be sad?

"Because pretending to be sad is better than actually being sad."

Li Yuexi nodded as if she understood, then turned to the three people behind the long table and puffed out her cheeks.

"You made my brother sad, you are bad people."

The middle-aged man from the production company coughed, looking somewhat embarrassed.

Lee Hyung-min leaned back in his chair, tapping his fingers lightly on the table for a long time.

Screenwriter Kim Jae-eun directly stated, "He's going to play the male lead. Hyung-min, what do you think?"

"I'll just sit here and watch," Lee Hyung-min thought to himself.

He certainly understood what the two people next to him were thinking.

The producers only need to consider how much money they can make. They can use the male lead of one drama to please rich young men, and maybe next time someone remembers them, they can invest in one drama and make back the money from ten dramas.

Moreover, the production company behind this drama is SBS television station. If Lin Puzhi's sister can ride roughshod over the station director, Lin Puzhi might have done the same thing when he was a child.

If they could please the station director, the middle-aged man on the production team would get a promotion.

Screenwriter Kim Jae-eun's wish is simple: he hopes his next script will attract investors.

In South Korea, screenwriters generally hold a higher status than directors.

But not all screenwriters are the same.

In this drama, director Lee Hyung-min is the one who has the most say.

Kim Jae-eun is only one of the three screenwriters for this drama, and she is only the second screenwriter.

He has never written a show that was solely written by him, or even written by him alone.

He really wants to improve.

Director Lee Hyung-min, on the other hand, had many more considerations.

After achieving legendary status with "Sorry, I Love You" in 2004, his subsequent works may have performed well for others, but for him, they were very poor.

He desperately needs a new work to prove his continued dominance in the genre of emotional dramas.

A male actor with the appeal of Kim Nam-gil has an advantage over Lim Pak-ji.

He admitted that Lin Puzhi's performance just now exceeded all his expectations of the character Shen Jianxu.

He not only portrayed the "abandonment," but also the qualitative change "after being abandoned."

He captured the moment when the will to retaliate was forged from despair with remarkable depth through his eyes.

But reason quickly suppressed his ecstasy.

"Go outside and wait for further notice," Li Hengmin said, his voice so calm that it betrayed no inclination.

Lin Puzhi bowed and led Li Yuexi out of the conference room.

The moment the door closed, he heard the sound of three people raising their voices from inside.

During the argument over the roles being decided, Lin Puzhi could vaguely hear:

He had two votes, while Kim Nam-gil had one vote.

However, director Lee Hyung-min, who supports Kim Nam-gil, has more say than the other two.

In the corridor, Li Yuexi looked up at him.

"Brother, do you think you'll get that role?"

"have no idea."

"Yuexi thinks her brother acted very well."

"Thank you, Yuexi."

"If those bad guys don't give my brother a role, Yuexi will have Grandpa cause them trouble."

Lin Puzhi looked at her serious expression and suddenly smiled.

"What is Yuexi's maternal grandfather's name?"

After thinking for a while, Yuexi replied, "My maternal grandfather's name is Li Mengxi."

Lin Puzhi searched through the original owner's memories but couldn't find the name.

"Go back and investigate, see which powerful figure the original owner's father sided with."

Inside the meeting room, the debate continued.