J Movie Magazine Narratage Interview Part 2 - Matsumoto Jun [English translation]

[arashitranslation]

(Even not appearing in scene, the film was fragrant with Hayama) This can be felt after watching the film, this is because of the effort of Arimura-san. Arimura-san said that the time facing Izumi was “very tough time”, when the finished film was watched, such feeling of facing the character was honestly conveyed. The feeling of Hayama fragrant in the film was strong.

I myself barely appeared in film and drama since last co-act (with Arimura-san), while Arimura-san, during these years, as actress, acted in many drama and films. Now she also acts in morning drama as leading actress. Though we entered the filming site with feeling “It’s been some time since we met”, the atmosphere was totally different from that time (last co-act).

(Did you two discuss the film or characters) We did not have conversation on this. While Izumi’s script line also says that, to her Hayama is a person that she does not know at all what he is thinking about, but with such illogic parts they are attracted to each other. Arimura-san thought that, to Izumi, it was just fine that “Hayama is an existence which she does not understand”. That said, at the site including Director, when it was about to discuss the work, we would get away from such conversation.

(Preparation for the character) The glasses were chosen by Director Yukisada among several tens of pairs prepared for this film. The thing said by Director before filming which was impressive was, if normally I was 100%, let’s cut my eyesight to around 40%, he said to me. What was cutting my eyesight… (giggle). If my eyesight was cut to 40%, was I Matsumoto Jun. What sort of acting would it be with such status. After taking consideration of various things, finally I started with the nuance of the 40% mentioned by Director and what approach to take so as to express the 40%. It was also related to the tone of speaking and movement, I thought about how to make a 40%, I felt like creating a character. While I did not ask if my acting was the correct one, but (Director said) OK, so I think that my acting should be fine.

It was joyful to act with more and more suppression. Of course it was not all about joy, there are also doubt and error of trial, the way of working on this character is different from “in order to depict this character what should be expressed”. I acted to an extent that I worried if it was fine to act with such suppression. I thought about where and how to suppress would be fine, the acting was done more carefully and it was very interesting.

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OA 7 Oct 2017
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Comments

[azalia00]

thank you so much for the translation<3<3

[arashitranslation]

Thanks for reading ^^