I don't understand love , starting from a place.
. A passionate love who acts true to her own desires as she sees fit. How did you approach this role, Mr. Yamada?
Yamada:Before I decided to play the role of Love, I read the original novel, but I didn't understand Love. . it was so far from being sympathetic that I made the comment, "I was fighting with love." I am supposed to be the person who understands the role best, but I didn't like love, or rather, I didn't understand it.
It's a difficult role to play.
Yamada:However, even though it is different from my usual approach, I have to understand it in a way that I don't understand it, so I tried to go in the direction of how to make it out as love, relying on the violence and impulsiveness of love as something I have experienced as well.
. I see. On the other hand, how about Miyuki, who plays a quiet and passive character with an illness?
Imojosei:I am the opposite, when I read the novel, the first person I sympathized with was Ai. But when I read the afterword of the book, I found that Yasuko Mitsuura wrote that she could not sympathize with Ai , and I thought, "What? (laugh). When I looked her up on the Internet, all I found were people saying that they could not sympathize with Ai, which I thought was strange (laughs). As for me, I sympathized with a character like Ai, who doesn't know how to love herself and therefore hurts others, or is so lost and unable to see herself that she doesn't even realize that she has made a move.
I see.
Imojosei:So I was an Ai-chan fan, but the role I was given was Miyuki, and I thought, oh, no (laughs). Then an emergency was declared in Corona, and I had more time to face myself at home. Through cooking, cleaning up, and decorating with flowers, I found ways to fulfill myself, and I finally understood the kind of person Miyuki was.
It just so happens that both of you found it difficult to empathize with your respective roles at first. Can you tell us a little more about how you came to understand your roles when you couldn't identify with them?
Yamada:I thought I was supposed to understand everything about the role I was playing, but it didn't work when it came to love, and I didn't know what to do. I understood that she was in the sensitive period of high school and that she had desires. But I didn't understand where her desire was headed. I asked the director, "Perhaps even Ai herself doesn't understand, does she? I asked the director, "What do you think, Mr. Yamada? And he said, "I don't know. . In this way, through conversations with the director, I came to realize that I needed to think more and more about it, rather than simply concluding that I did not understand it.
