He had not been able to watch TV ever since he first shot something that would go on public TV. Watching his own face on the TV was unexpectedly very embarrassing. Even though he knew that he should be monitoring himself, he was overwhelmed with embarrassment when he stood in front of the TV, as though people were looking at him naked.

It took quite a lot of time for him to get adjusted to the embarrassment. His aim to fix his mistakes erased his embarrassments. Showing others that he was terrible at acting was something even more shameful than watching his own acts after all.

Maru calmly watched his own act. Erasing a person’s nature when acting might look simple at first, but the lack of personality that Jayeon requested of him was a little special, making it a little tricky to act out. A person who’s extremely normal yet also someone who one couldn’t help but be attracted to - these were the words he heard from Jayeon during the shoot. To him, that sounded similar to ‘a yellow apple’, or a ‘red banana’, or ‘chocolate that tastes like fish’.

After trial and error, he discussed the character with Jayeon and changed the abstract concept into a few keywords. As this was her first work, Jayeon...