[ 2016.01.24 ] Takeuchi Yuko & Hashimoto Ai
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■ Unintentionally shut her eyes to the completed work?!
Q: First, please tell us your impressions from watching the finished work. As for Takeuchi-san It seems like you did not watch until the end at first...
Takeuchi Yuko: I shut my eyes throughout and have only heard of the sounds. (laughs)
Hashimoto Ai: I made sure to watch until the end. Since I'm originally okay with horror films.
Takeuchi: How strong (laughs). All I could do is to check only the parts I'm playing...
Q: What was the decisive factor that made you appear (in this film)?
Takeuchi: It's because I like Director Nakamura (Yoshihiro) works. If I were called then certainly, it's that kind of feeling. The director's site is also fun.
Hashimoto: I also like Director Nakamura's films. 'Ahiru to Kamo no Coin Locker' 's atmosphere seems comfortable.
Takeuchi: I'm also the same! I felt "I like this director!" in Ahiru to Kamo. The casual lines at first worked on the second half, i've been had.
Hashimoto: This time, although I went to see the horror films that the director filmed 10 years ago, they were made with a very tricky touch. If you think about it, it seems like Zan'e was directed and aimed at horror like a straight pitch.
■ Impression of Hashimoto is "A quiet lake"
Q: For Takeuchi-san, this is your 5th time working with Director Nakamura. When you said "The site is fun", which part of it was?
Takeuchi: My snack preference matches with the director (laughs). It seems like we often just talk about food on the site. The two of us like sweet. Our claims on how to eat them matches or something like that. But .."In reality, you're not interested about me at all , right? " the director said such a thing masochistically.
Hashimoto: Really, the two of them has a good relationship. Next to the director that is checking the monitor, is the starring actress who looks like she's having fun conversing, it was a fresh sight to me.
Takeuchi: I think that probably, we were talking about foods even there (laughs).
Q: It is the first time for you two to co-star, right? What was your impression before you met?
Takeuchi: I had the impression that Ai-chan was "A mysterious beauty clothed in blue aura". When I met her in person, she thinks of interesting things and I really grew interested of her.
Hashimoto: I had also thought that the aura around me was blue (laughs). I was told that I look good in blue clothes. I also like blue clothes myself.
Takeuchi: Like the image of a "Quiet lake"?
Hashimoto: That representation, I like it!
Q: For Hashimoto-san, what's your image of Takeuchi-san?
Hashimoto: I feel that she can play whatever role it is naturally, a mature woman, and a balanced person. When I first met her during the costume fitting, I heard about her favorite food, and strangely I was able to relax.
Takeuchi: Is that so? Just before that, I wonder if the director and I were talking about food again?... If you met me on a site other than Director Nakamura's, your first impression of me might have been different (laughs).
■ Strange phenomenon in my life is zero.
Q: How did each of you approach your respective roles?
Takeuchi: She's a novelist, a role who doesn't believe in psychic phenomenon. I kept in mind to act like she does not possess the feeling of being scared and calmly listens to her partner's experiences.
Hashimoto: Kubo-san, whom I play, is a little bit unusual type. After hearing a sound from her room, normally one would run away, but this girl sent her favorite author a letter. "Lucky! It's close and happening", her curiously around such extreme was felt and lasted until the second half of the film.
Q: What strange phenomenon has the two of you encountered in actual?
Takeuchi: I guess my inspiration is zero. Even when I experience sleep paralysis, I would convince myself "This is just my head being messed up!", and then fell asleep (laughs).
Hashimoto: I haven't even experienced sleep paralysis. When I heard a steady sound at the hotel, I thought "Has it finally come?", but it was just a knock on the door.
Takeuchi: And then,, did anyone come? The person over here is scary(laughs) !
Hashimoto: Such phenomenon, I might half believe it and half disbelieve it. Even if it has been scientifically proven, freaking out and being scared just comes together.
■ For their next work, they would like to experience love with age gap?
Q: Please tell us your memories of horror films.
Takeuchi: When I was 18 years old, I played a high school girl who died in the closet for the film Ring and watching the completed work, I thought "It had become such a horrible picture!". I was traumatized. Since then, just having the TV placed in a dark room is no good.
Hashimoto: I guess what was dangerous for me was Director Toshiharu Ikeda's Evil Dead Trap. Rather than frightening, the video tricks were interesting. During brutal scenes, integrations of face were used, or the camera would shoot far from the person, or would be taken in a wide field. In this film, I became interested in filming techniques.
Takeuchi: Ah, if that's the case them I might be alright with it too. Because I did not mind Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. I'm okay with the grotesque depiction of zombies.
Hashimoto: Well then this time, please watch by all means (laughs).
Takeuchi: I guess what is scary with Zan'e is because of such feeling… that you might experience the same thing back in your home.
Hashimoto: Those we cannot see is scary. The substance in the first half is unclear, (one is being) teased by watching closely. The transition between the eras is smooth, once again, I was impressed with Director Nakamura's ability.
Q: For next time, what kind of role would you like to play as costars?
Takeuchi: This time, I want a role where we fight each other as a woman. Doesn't extreme setting sounds fun too?
Hashimoto: I... (Her eyes darted towards the top of Takeuchi's head) Takeuchi-san's father and…
Takeuchi: Wait up! Where are you looking at?! My father is still alive!
Hashimoto: Sorry, because we're covering Zan'e, so .. (laughs) The story would be Takeuchi-san's father and I are going out, isn't a complex relationship interesting?
Takeuchi: That idea is amazing. But if he's going out with a cute girl such as Ai-chan, "Dad! Way to go!" I would praise him like that (laughs).
Source: Cinematoday