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"Sato-san, I'm really sorry. The doctor said it will take several days for Kimura-kun to return."

A middle-aged man in a suit came to the set and bowed ninety degrees to Sato Wataru.

He is Kimura Hayato's agent and is responsible for Kimura Hayato's marketing operations, image public relations, resource negotiation and other matters. Kimura Hayato delayed the filming due to his personal reasons. As an agent, he must apologize.

"Alas..." Sato Wataru took off his earphones, looked at the man in front of him and said, "It's not impossible to understand that there are unforeseen circumstances."

"And we have not stopped filming. We are using a stand-in. We will wait for Kimura-san to recover before re-shooting. We will try our best to catch up, but producer Shimizu does not have many films left in hand. We also hope that Kimura-san can return as soon as possible.

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"Absolutely..." the agent nodded and bowed.

After getting the understanding from the main creative staff, the manager finally breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly blamed Kimura Hayato.

In fact, he was not seriously injured, but he met a girl from Uruguay in the hospital and wanted to take her to visit Shikoku. So after recovering from the injury, he actually went on a trip, and he still had three days to go to the set.

He didn't dare to openly offend the creative team, so he sent him to apologize to the creative team.

A manager's life is miserable, but when an artist goes to have fun, he has to apologize. Even if he goes fishing and growing persimmons in Hokkaido in his next life, he won't be a manager...

While he was slandering, the director turned on the camera, and after tapping the clapperboard, Arima Keixiang and an actor with a strange face started acting.

This person is a substitute... the manager thought to himself, clasping his hands in front of his chest and looking at it for a while.

Today is a quarrel scene, and it is also a section with strong dramatic tension, which will test the acting skills of both actors.

Acting as a stand-in is definitely of no use. It is equivalent to asking Arima Katsura to read her lines to the air. Ms. Arima and the creative team must be very resentful... Even if Kimura Hayato reshoots the scene in the end, the effect will be greatly reduced.

The manager sighed secretly in his heart. Kimura Hayato became famous at a very young age. Because he was handsome and had many fans, he had a smooth journey and never felt a sense of crisis, so he didn't cherish job opportunities very much. He also entered a period of career burnout this year.

The work is very perfunctory.

The agent is worried: If this continues, Kimura-kun will be replaced by a new person sooner or later...

Kimura Hayato is still young and doesn’t know how fierce the competition in this industry is, but the agent knows it. In this industry, he has seen too many old people decline, new people rise, and Kimura Hayato becomes famous at a young age. This is a gift from God. But God’s gift

The gift may not be taken back in the future!

But immediately he comforted himself by stroking his chest. Kimura Hayato is also a super idol after all. He has acted in popular dramas in the past two years and has a lot of blood. Replacing him is not something that can be done overnight, so there is no need to worry too much for the time being.

"you're lying!"

Arima Guixiang covered her face with her hands and began to cry. Her shoulders were shaking and tears seeped out from between her fingers.

The agent couldn't help but sigh after watching it, what a great acting skill, if Kimura Hayato could handle this?

At this time, Kimura Hayato's stand-in suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Arima Keika's hands. His eyes were red and tears were rolling in his eyes. He was reciting the lines, but halfway through the sentence, he let go of his hand again, his finger joints slightly

Trembling, front teeth biting his lower lip.

The manager was startled, what a great acting! The feeling of loving the other person deeply, but not daring to touch, and being so passionate but only polite!

Is this person a professional actor? Isn’t that just a stand-in? He won’t officially be on camera, so how can he have such superb acting skills?

And he had a feeling that Arima Guixiang seemed to enjoy the performance more when she acted opposite this person.

After the two of them finished their performance, they used another method to give the director a break and officially ended the scene.

While Arima Keixiang was resting, the manager slithered through the crowd like a loach, walked up to Arima Keixiang, and said with an apologetic smile: "Ms. Arima, excuse me."

Arima Keixiang glanced at him and said, "Mr. Ishikawa, how are Kimura-kun?"

"Still recovering and will be back soon."

Arima Keixiang's face was expressionless: "If the injury is serious and difficult to recover, it won't be a problem if you rest for a while."

As soon as she finished speaking, Arima Guixiang's manager poked her in the waist.

Manager Ishikawa pretended not to hear the thorn in his words and still laughed apologetically. At this time, Fujiwara Kei came over and said, "Miss Arima, I have made a design for you for the next scene. Do you think it will work..."

After Arima Keika saw Fujiwara Kei, she immediately stood up and said, "What's wrong, Fujiwara?"

Kei Fujiwara scratched a line on the script book with his fingernails: "This sentence, the lines remain the same, but when you read it, it would be better if you take a breath and pause for a while. After reading the sentence, if there is

A sobbing sound would be more effective."

Arima Keixiang tried to recite it according to the method Fujiwara Kei said, and her eyes suddenly lit up: "Sure enough."

Agent Ishikawa looked at Kei Fujiwara in a daze, "Aren't you a stand-in? Why did you start to formally communicate with the leading actor about acting skills, and make it like the official leading actor?"

This is trespassing! It’s a subordinate committing a crime! No, no one cares about it?

Agent Ishikawa glanced at Director Sato, then at the agent next to Arima Keika, and found that they all had expressions they were accustomed to, so their expressions instantly became serious, and an uneasy feeling came to his heart.

The creative team... are they planning to make major changes to the script at short notice?

This kind of thing has happened in the past. There was once a leading actor who suddenly became famous in the middle of a TV series. He became dissatisfied with the cheap contract he had signed and hoped to increase his salary.

Of course, the producer would not agree to this request, so the lead actor began to be uncooperative with the producer in various ways, arriving late and leaving early, and being absent without any reason. The producer had no choice but to increase the pay once, but it still failed to satisfy her.

The creative screenwriter was so angry that he wrote his character to death and replaced the male protagonist with a girlfriend.

Changing roles midway will naturally be a heavy blow to the ratings, and the audience will constantly curse at the creative team. But anyone who has a little knowledge of this industry knows that the producers will not change roles midway if they have the means.

There is no way around it.

So after this incident, the actor became notorious and his market value plummeted. No one was willing to hire a person who was extremely unprofessional and even forced the production company to change roles midway. Within a few years, this person was investigated in the industry

There is no such person anymore.

Thinking of this, Ishikawa suddenly broke into a cold sweat.

Looking at Kei Fujiwara again, I just feel that this person does have the temperament of an actor, and his acting skills seem to be much higher than Hayato Kimura's.

Could the creative team really have the idea of ​​letting this person replace Kimura Hayato?

Thinking of this, he felt a little hot in his head and couldn't stay any longer. After greeting everyone, Manager Ishikawa quickly left the set and went to find Kimura Hayato.

No, this is too dangerous. That unprofessional guy Kimura must be made aware of the crisis.