Although people on the other side were indeed shouting, it didn't look like the star was there to cheer them on; it seemed more like—protesting.
The director asked around, but none of the stars on this side responded. Instead, the shouting from the other side got louder. And it wasn't just the shouting that was getting louder; a small group of people had even started to tamper with their equipment. This made the director a bit anxious.
To say that these people were there to collect protection money was unlikely. Many of them were young women, in their teens and twenties, without weapons. Although they looked quite agitated, they were still within normal behavior. No one who came to collect protection money would start a conversation like that, never.
