TVガイド1/19号
Farewell, Miyama-sensei...
He really was a loveable character, but since we never had any in-depths insights of him, I guess the producers don't especially want to go further with him and it will be the last season of the serie. :'(
As a goodbye, here is a cross interview of Matsumoto and and Kimura (late in the week, because I've been lazy). The interview is divided into three segments, the first one being a discussion between the two, the second one being quite the same but they have a camera, and the third one being a very short "mock trial".
1/ Special Talk
Matsumoto: It's the first time that we co-star in a drama, but we met once before, around the time you debuted. You really grew up since then... (w).
Kimura: I hope I did (w)! When we first met, it was during work, and I had to muster my courage to scream "Jun-kun", to which you answered: "you did great!" (w).
M: I said that? I don't remember (w). It didn't make sense...
K: Then, when we had to work together, I saw you coming back from a drama set looking like if you had wounds all over the body. I will keep working for dramas from now on, but it is you, and the state in which I saw you at that moment, that taught me how acting in a drama can be hard.
M: Fufufu, indeed, I was really tired at that moment (w).
K: Now that I meet you again, I feel like you're someone who really sees the world around you. Recently, you said that you may have a "third eye", but as for me I think that you have about a hundred of them.
M: I'm watching through all my pores (w).
K: Amazing (w)! you're scary... You really never relax your attention.
M: Kimura-san, you seem like a soft person, but at the same time, you also have a relatively masculine side too. Even though it gives a kind of Showa era-feeling, up until my generation, the men tend to have a very gutsy, military-like temper, and the actresses who can properly react to that kind of character are few, but you are one of them.
K: Thank you. I think that this distinctive of Kimura Hisashi, the movie director: with him, there are always settings or lines that he will suddenly tell you on the spot.
M: Indeed. Like improvisation.
K: Yes. But he's not doing it with scenes that are usually subject to improvisation, like the comedy scenes, he's rather doing it with the serious ones.
M: How to say it... grave scenes, because they are grave, you can't cut them off. But, even when they seem to be really weird, what is interesting is that these scenes all come from Kimura Hisashi's real experiences.
K: That's true.
M: So, all that is required is a good time to use his experiences. He has many, many of these "drawers", but when is he gonna open them? We don't know. I think this is what makes him interesting.
K: That's right. He also told me about Maiko, my character : "I'll want to do something about her, right". "If I don't, she'll be just another serious character". He meant something like the pro-wrestling thing for Ayano (Tachibana), in season I. But, his timing was really like... "What, right now?", so when Magi-san saw my "improvisation and real lines-mix" for the first time, he was like: "what should I do with that...".
M: Fuhahahaha (w)! I hope people are excited about what kind of character is Maiko. To the ones who already watched season 1, I want to show a powered-up version of the serie, and to the ones who are just discovering it, I hope we will give them fun. It's a funny serie... at least, it is the plan (w).
K: The first half of the serie is about a mystery that Miyama sensei has already started investigating in season I, and it makes us know more about him and love him more. It will be funny... at least it is the plan (w).
M: Well, the plan isn't all decided yet! (w)
2/ 0,1% Talk
We give them a camera and ask them to take photos of each other: as would Miyama do, they inspect each other, maybe to find a hidden 0,1%...
Let's hear about what they like! Through their answers, we may be surprised by their character.
M: What is the animal that you dislike the most? For me it's the insects.
K: Swarm of flies. I hate it.
M: Aaah! I'm the same! When you're child, sometimes in summer you're playing outside, at school or in parks ; and when you happen to look up, there's a huge cloud of them flying over you! What were they doing... I haven't been in such a situation recently, though.
K: I really dislike it. I hate it when they come into your eyes.
M: Ah, I'm the same.
K: So, on scale from 1 to 100, how much to you like wasabi?
M: …. (thinking, then suddenly) 99,9%!
K: Ahahah
M: It was awkward (w).
K: I had the idea that you loved wasabi. From now on, everytime I'll see wasabi I'll remember Matsumoto-san (w).
M: I do really like it (w).
3/ Matsumoto and Kimura : personality emergency survey
Matsumoto and Kimura will have to improvise judgments on questions we've prepared for them in relation with their drama: will they decide to allow or to forbid? We might even catch a glimpse of their character!
Question 1
If someone that you meet for the first time asks you personal questions like Miyama does... do you allow it, or forbid it ?
M: Most people wouldn't allow it, I think (w).
K: They wouldn't, without a doubt.
M: if it's for work, it is not an inconceivable thing. How eager the person is to know and to ask, is crucial. Of course, sometimes it is just because it's his or her work, but if that shows, like if the person asks while reading a paper as if someone had forced them to do it, then I won't feel like talking anymore (w).
K: (w) I feel the same. I think it's important to convey that you really want to know the person you're asking these questions.
Answer: M: forbid / K: forbid
Question 2
Miyama's interest for food is big, but the sweet and sour pork with pineapple inside... would you allow it, or forbid it?
Both: Aaah
M: I'll allow, I'll allow!
K: Me too, I'll allow it! I heard that many people don't like it, but I do.
M: But to begin with, why did he even do that? Was is because of the colours?
K: Maybe it was... There must have been a reason.
M: By the way, are you fine with adding fruits in your food? I am.
K: I'm fine with it too. Maybe it's because women like sweet things, but I think that many people are fine with it.
M: That's right. Well anyway, it's not like if I'd scream "yes!!" when I see fruits in my food (w), and people who don't like it don't especially need to eat it.
K: For me too, I'd eat without any problem if there are some fruits in something that I buy in a shop, but I wouldn't put fruits in the food that I cook myself. Even though it's so delicious! (w)
M: It is really! (w)
Answer: M: allow / K: allow
The pictures come from here (15 mars). You can also see the full article and other pictures there.