This is something that I’ve been meaning to write and post for a while now but I was never quite sure when to let it go out on the internet.
warning: extreme word vomit and contains a lot of incoherence and rambles.
This is about a very special, one of a kind experience of mine with EXO, something that now seems like a dream to me until I realize that it did indeed actually happen. This was the best day of my life and the reason why I couldn’t even make myself believe 2014 will be an even better year because this was just too huge for me.
The reason that I was unable to post it earlier was because 1) the filmed stuff hadn’t been released 2) i’m lazy
July 25, 2013. This is before EXO’s repackage album came out. Through some connections that I don’t feel like going into detail about, we (my friend, her younger sister, their mom, and myself) were allowed to be on set with exo for growl filming (well, the timetable schedule stated that but it involved other stuff, such as the Japan Universal Studios holograms). When I say on set, I mean directly on a closed set, in only the presence of directors, cameramen, makeup and coordi noonas, and all 12 exo boys. the only non-working people were us.
We arrived at the filming location (on the outskirts of Seoul) pretty early morning. After all, we wanted as much time as possible with exo.
The first person we saw was Tao. Tao in his makeup less everything state, looking drowsy as ever. We walked towards the door of the set while Tao stood off to the side a bit, eyeing us curiously. I remember locking eyes with him and thinking oh my god oh my god huang zi tao it’s him. He had on a mask covering his mouth so I couldn’t read his expression, but I averted my eyes after a while because too intimidating lol.
We went in and were introduced to the director who let me just say is the nicest person ever. He was super kind to us and started explaining what was going to take place today and what time the boys would be arriving. Tao, he said, was the only member there at the moment because he had to film his wushu scenes first. He told us to take a seat and to enjoy the day. We had been previously told we could take a photo with the boys and he said he would see to that. It most likely would not be with all 12 because “it’s very difficult to gather them all together” but we might possibly be able to take one with whoever was our favorite members. Yes, he then asked us who our favorite members were lmao. Luhan for me and Sehun for my friend. After that chat, he told us to go have some food outside.