Ninomiya Kazunari "I do not forget my debt of gratitude towards my senpais”
I talked to the surgeons (during preparation of filming) about various things, everyone is good person. The character I act, Tokai, is a person with very bad personality, so the experience of my talking to those good surgeons did not become reference of my creating the role (giggle). I thought “indeed there is no doctor with such bad personality”. But it was good to be able to observe the operation. Though the operation rooms is seen very tense in drama and documentary, in fact the doctors worked while having casual conversation like “which manufacturer are those glasses made of?”. While doctors are tended to be deified as “facing lives”, if you think about them as people facing lives every day there, you would have very close feeling to them like “that’s right” (giggle).
I am exploring “if I say such thing, this would silence others”. If I am told “there is already not enough time”, I would reply like “Not enough time? It is you who led to such situation, right?”, borrowing the line of my partners and play on it. Even the scriptwriter sensei said “If you want to add lines just add them, if you want to cut lines just cut them”, so we actors discuss on-site like “how about this pattern (of scriptline)?”. It feels like a presentation. There are times I am indulged in it, there are also times I am not, I do it very flexibly.
(About saying Tokai’s scripts in private) I don’t like conflicts, in the first place I am not in an environment that I need to be so abusive. I think if I say those script lines in private, no one will come to me (giggle). But, it is refreshing to say those script lines (in drama) which I definitely won’t say, like “if this old lady dies you’ll also go to hell”.
There may be similarities between the character Tokai and myself. Because I don’t think much about myself, I don’t think about my similarities with the character.
(When did you think about myself, such as during adolescence?) I didn’t, nor have I met anyone who said “I was so worried at that time” (giggle). I think people alike befriend each other, so probably my friends are like me (not thinking about self).
(If I were patient) I want Tokai to be my doctor. No doubt. Because there is only one chance, however I think, I hope to be treated by a doctor who would succeed. If Professor Saeki (Uchino Seiyo) is my doctor I would feel great pressure, if Sera-kun (Takeuchi Ryoma) is my doctor I would worry (giggle). No way if not Tokai.
(Who in ARASHI is like Tokai?) If you think about this with tremendous reality, in the first place such person would not be in our group, no matter how capable he is or how great talent he has. Because this drama depicts “a world where absolute result is all” there are occasions that “let’s leave the operation to Tokai”, but we ARASHI are not such merit system, we don’t work this way. For instance it may be interesting to make a group with a deadline “one-year group only” …… I guess it would only turn out to be a test (giggle). I wonder if there are people like Tokai in our world (of entertainment). It would be difficult for him because our work is done with everyone else.
I am basically trying to do what senpais have done for me. To talk to kouhais, to brighten the filming site, and bring in refreshment, to take kouhais to meals….. unlimitedly. There is no reason for me to stop what have been doing all along, I think this is my debt of gratitude towards my senpais.
I have been sent to hospital because of lymphangitis, and I got well in around two days. Therefore I wasn’t quite taken care of by hospital. I haven’t had influenza, I almost don’t catch a cold that need to go to hospital. I think I live in a good environment, because I have lived in dirty places (giggle).
When ARASHI became very busy, we all were aware that “This would become difficult if any of us is ill”. Then, we all are tremendously healthy (giggle). We became healthy so that we can work with peace of mind (giggle).
(You are really healthy) Right so. I think my current life which I can talk to people and work on various works suits me.
※ Asahi Weekly Issue 2018.5.18
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