The shoot was delayed by 20 minutes. As such delays were quite common, no one was in a fluster or anything.

“It’s good that there’s no one picky this time.”

Sooyeol spoke with a comfortable expression as he sipped some coffee. Joohyun nodded her head. The moodmakers of the set were not the staff that made up the majority of the people present, but the director and the actors, who were the minority. The air would become very volatile if one of the actors, especially if he or she was popular with the public, started becoming annoyed. If there was an actor that could even suppress the director, then the atmosphere on the set would change according to that actor’s mood at every moment.

“Senior Joojin was quite something when he was still around. He always got into fights with the director and whimsically said that he’d quit or whatnot. The assistant director from back then always drank some bile juice^[1], and he told me that it was in order to live.”

“I’ve heard of the rumors. I’ve never done something together with him, so I’ve never seen him do it in person.”

Joohyun closed her script. Someone made an okay sign from the set.

“The director told me to say that you should prepare for the rehearsal,” a person from the production team ran up to her and said.

As she was aware, she just nodded and walked into the set. Two rooms were...