+act. May 2018 - Director Miike on Sakurai: “The Charm of Sakurai Sho as Actor, as Human” Part 1

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+act. May 2018 - Director Miike on Sakurai: “The Charm of Sakurai Sho as Actor, as Human” (Abstract) Part 1

As an actor, he does his best on what he can do.

This time we work again since 10 years ago, my impression to him basically doesn’t change. I don’t know about other parts but at least the “actor Sakurai Sho” part has no change. There are actors who behave like a leading figure when they become popular. But he remains as he has been. This is because he is living a more severe life and am in a tougher agency Johnny’s. Though people view them differently, he always gets used to it, and calmly think “what should I do as a human?”.

Well…… he is a good actor, all the same. Therefore, he is very easy to get along with. Even among his various works, when he works as an actor indeed he works like an actor. He works on live programmes, regular programmes, concerts, CM, and go to Olympics. And he acts the leading role in movie……. Normally a person can’t do this all (giggle). But, including the energy of doing all these, he hasn’t changed at all… even we talked about the blank period “it’s been 10 years” it was just “so time passed?”. Because he has stage performance he has more training than common actors. What’s more, he doesn’t waste time on useless things. He naturally trains himself in their works, as ARASHI, therefore though he always works to his best, it is not too hard to him.

Occasionally other members would film in studios next to us and I met them… no matter which member I met, they all are very natural and don’t look fervent, they are light. In good sense they remove the burden of others. I think this is the characteristic of their group, no one did it deliberately, the group just became like this naturally. I think it interesting.

And he is very clever. Indeed the cleverest part of him is that he does not try to appear smart. He knows what’s happening, but he won’t show off he does. Perhaps he himself is not aware of this. Because there are so many people, there are always rank above rank. No matter how talented you are, the most talented you are, the more people you will meet. Though ARASHI is very great, in the real world… if you look at the whole world, they are not that different. Because he understands this, he won’t have strange misunderstanding on his work. He is very proper. He can understand things like “this may make audience happy if we do this, but it is not my position to say this”. He is very clever, and he works to his utmost…… on the contrary I learn from him.

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Director Miike on Sho:
Part 2: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/151842.html [Fin]
Part 1: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/151633.html

Sho-san’s individual interview:
Part 3: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/151343.html [Fin]
Part 2: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/150521.html
Part 1: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/150190.html

Comments

[sarahjohnsf_89]

Thank you for translating

[hashiridase]

Thank you for translating, I'm happy hearing such things about Sho.

[roo_kie]

Thank you so much!!
I can't just say "WOW"!!!
Well, I never read another interviewing of Director Miike on other artist, I can't understand some point.