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Ai Hashimoto, who played a geisha in the Oikawa drama "Wei Datian: The Story of the Tokyo Olympics" (nhk general channel, 8 p.m. on Sunday), looked back on the filming of her masterpiece "Haenyeo" (2013), and said about her own changes and growth: "The feeling presented to the audience in "Haenyeo" and those that are not presented have become a part of my body. ”
This drama is the new label of screenwriter Miyato Kankuro since "Haenyeo", after 6 years. It tells the story of Yoshizo Kaneari (Kankuro Nakamura) and Masashi Tabata (Takashi Abe) as Japanese athletes from their first participation in the Stockholm Olympics (1912) to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, an exciting half-century of sportsmen's fate. In the play, Hashimoto plays The Asakusa geisha Xiaomei.
Hashimoto, who decided to star because he was attracted to the script, said: "At the beginning, I knew that there was a geisha character, and when I read the script, I found that this story fascinated me more than my role, and it was a super TV series. During this year, I fully felt Mr. Miyato's philosophy, and I felt very happy. The previous "Haenyeo" was also the work of Mr. Miyato, but at that time there were definitely many treasures that I did not find (in the script), so I always wanted to explore it again. ”
Hashimoto, who gained a lot of popularity by playing a 17-year-old beautiful girl yui who aspired to become an idol in "Haenyeo", said that at that time, he had always been immature in acting, always thinking about how to perform and how to grasp the scale.
"If the ideal acting was a brilliant five-pointed star, then I was completely deformed and extremely unbalanced" "The feeling presented to the audience in "Haenyeo" and those that are not presented have become part of my body." If I look at it from my current perspective, I will find that "it is no wonder that some things cannot be done", and sometimes I can broaden my horizons and see different scenery. ”
Hashimoto laughed at the staff who filmed "Haenyeo" before working together again: "They know me at the age of 17, so when they go to the shooting location, they have a feeling of returning to their youth." Surrounded by kind people, I felt very at ease and the atmosphere was also very good. (Interview/Editor/Tomo kishida)