Chapter 790: Side Story 4. Endless Journey - 71
Kar tilted his head. "Coaching?"
"Yeah, so..."
"Let me explain, Sir Ishtera," a woman came behind Byul, who Kar knew to be the manager and the CEO of Byul’s agency.
She started by explaining how things work. The production company usually contracted an action school for this kind of action movie; the action school would provide training, stunts, and action choreographers for the filming. For a story with esper characters, the action school had its own contracted espers as trainers for the last stage.
"Why do you need me, then?" Kar asked curiously as they entered the elevator.
"That’s..." Byul scratched his neck awkwardly. "I criticized the esper and he got angry, refusing to train the actors afterward."
The manager continued the explanation then, telling Kar how condescending the esper had been since the start of his coaching--which started about three days ago. Not only that, he used the standard of real espers for the actors in the training, even though they were non-awakened.
"It’s completely different from the training I received from you and Uncle, Hyung..." Byul frowned and clenched his fist. "I had spoken to the movie director, and she said she had told the school’s director about it. But the esper was mocking us today because of that--telling the actors that they shouldn’t pretend to be espers and such. The young actors were scared and someone finally got injured today, so I couldn’t hold back and raised my voice--I was really angry."
Byul bit his lips hard as the manager told Kar about how the esper said he would no longer train them. The movie was set in an esper academy, so there were a lot of young actors involved. They didn’t have enough courage to stand up for themselves, even though they had been feeling so exhausted and in pain the past three days.
Truthfully, they could just go without the esper’s teaching--since it wasn’t really helpful in the first place. But having no esper involved in the production when it was a story about one would diminish the movie’s credibility. If the esper talked to the press, it could jeopardize the movie further.
"Can he do that? Isn’t there a contract or something?" Kar held his baby’s hand and rubbed it for a few seconds before the elevator stopped.