The fifth episode of the second season of HBO's American drama "Westworld" takes viewers on a journey into shogun World, a new land, in which the important character Ronin Musashi is played by Hiroyuki Sanada, a Japanese film award-winning actress. For the show, Sanada talked about the reasons for joining the hollywood reporter in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, and shared his experience playing against "double" Hector and teaching Thandie Newton Japanese.
● Joined the performance of "Western Elysium"
Sanada said he has been a big fan since the first season of "Western Paradise" and is also a fan of Tandy Newton, and has previously worked with Anthony Hopkins ("End City"). At the end of the first season, when he saw samurai appear in the show, the word SW appeared and he thought, "Is this the samurai world?" Is it possible that there will be a Japanese character in the second season?" He couldn't help but be curious about it and prayed that it would come true.
When he got the role, he was very excited, and he had a feeling that his dream had come true, "I talked to Jonathan and the writers over the phone about the shogun world and my role, and I felt that they had a lot of respect for Japanese culture, including Kurosawa's films." 」 They said it was going to be a tribute, and I thought oh my God, I should be there, so I agreed without saying a word."
● Interpreting the role and Hector is actually a "double body"
Hiroyuki Sanada's character, Musashi, was originally loyal to the generals, but now he is a ronin with excellent swordsmanship. Due to the setting of the park's storyline , the character has a high degree of similarity to Hector in Western Paradise.
Sanada said that they are like mirrors, and it is very interesting for him to play the role, not only to imitate Hector, but to find the best way to match the differences. At the same time, he also established a good friendship with Rodrigo Santoro, the actor who plays Hector, and they will call each other brothers.
● Teach Tandy Newton to speak Japanese
Tandy Nutton speaks a lot of Japanese in this episode, and its pronunciation is amazingly pure, and a large part of this is due to Hiroyuki Sanada.
Sanada Hiroyuki and Tantiewton actually met many times before performing the show, and he also said that he had long been a fan of TandiEwton. Later, he knew that TantiEwton would have a lot of Japanese dialogue in the play, so every day on the set he helped Tandi Newton practice constantly, including every shot, every rehearsal, "I know that for people who have never studied Japanese, it is difficult to speak so much dialogue." 」
He continued, "She's really talented at speaking outside Chinese, she has a keen sense of hearing, and sometimes I'm surprised to hear her speaking even as if she were speaking her native language!" Later, with the repeated training every day, coupled with the special guidance of Sanada Hiroka, who did not shoot, Tandy Newton spoke better and better, and finally presented an excellent performance in front of the audience, "Before I worked with her, I was a big fan of her, and after working with her, I became very respectful of her." Not only is she talented, she also puts in a lot of effort."
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