"Isn't this wrong? Didn't you say variety shows are also art? Didn't you say art cannot be defiled? Where's your integrity as an independent creator?"
The director, holding a megaphone, stood behind the camera, watching Fushimi Roku spitting criticisms at him and the script written by his editor.
He thought to himself, it's tough to earn money and even harder to stomach nonsense these days; there's always some outsider pointing fingers. Everyone wants to be on TV and be in the limelight, but who will play the background characters? Who will complement the stars?
Stepping back a mile, even playing a villain is a skill, right? With Minamoto Tamako's looks, she can't even muster the harshness to insult someone, how could she possibly portray the intensity of a villain?
"There's no other way, we can't risk the show being taken off air, can we?" the director tried to reason with Fushimi Roku, "Besides, Officer Yuan is not suitable to play a bad guy..."
