Shige @ TV FAN July [Translation]
TV FAN Special Interview to Shige
Credits: Kyara - Watchful21
✿ How do you feel going back on a theatre play after two years?
I'm happy! Somehow I wanted to work in a play again. The previous time I felt a big sense of fullfillment so I thought that it would be great to be able to do one every year. I mostly get roles of extremely useless guys, more than elite characters like Dekisugi* (lol), and moreover I always have to play crying scenes. I cried in the previous butai too, I became kinda confortable about crying on stage. This time the show is more human, it's a story that could happen in every house, I think it would be good if we can sublimate its reality. Me and Joshima-kun play the role of two brother but we both are only children, just because of this we must turn this fake brotherwook into reality. I still have to learn many things.
*Dekisugi is a Doraemon character, that kid who teased Nobita because he was good in anything.
✿ What could you notice about the director G2?
Recently I went to see the play in which stars Maruyama-kun, 'Gilbert Grape'. Mostly because I'm a good friend with Maruyama-kun though (lol). In reality he asked to talk with me before he wrote the script, we saw each other last Autumn. I thought: "Eh? Isn't this a little early!? The butai is next year!!" (lol). Maybe my character comes out a little from what G2 saw of me.
[That's really cool! So G2 had in mind Shige for this play, it's not like he was randomly chosen!]
✿ How are you getting ready to rehearsals and the real show?
When I went to see the plays of my actor friends before, since they were really good, I asked them which was their preparation. I've been told once: "You just have to increase the communication". The script is important but to build good relationships without reserves is important as well. I want to be able to build such positive relationships too...sorry I became too serious! (Blushes). I'm unexpectedly shy and I get very embarrassed when we have to improvise. Right now I'm preparing my mind to overcome this too (lol). This is very important to me, I keep saying: "Don't be nervous!" (lol). Take long breathes and try to look dignified, remember that even if you fail there are people watching you. This is what I learnt being a Johnny's.
✿ What kind of play will it be?
At first I thought it was a comedy but actually it's a moving story. Saying that it's moving sounds childish but I think this is exactly the meaning conveyed by 'bitter orange'. It's like a little bitter fruit but...how to say it...it's like a sweet too. I'll be happy if people who will watch it will say at the end: "It was a little touching". I want this to be a kind of play that people who feel a little down, because they were scolded by their boss or something, will watch and feel encouraged again, so that the next day it will be a little brighter day. I'm sure it will give good impressions.
[So nice...he's such a nice guy]
☆ A perfect physical conditions' control
I lost weight but it wasn't for the play (lol). I've always been a lazy boy but I started to feel lively again. My theme this year is: 'Shed skin'. Little by little of course. I start to think that I will look forward to any job I can get. This was before the lives...or am I wrong? Somehow I was annoyed (lol). When in Summer I began to go to the gym at first I gained weight, people around me kept noticing it and I answered: "I'm working on it!" (lol). But in was also true so I kept that in mind and even during the lives I limited myself to eat only one bowl of brown rice. That wasn't sane anyway, so I started all over again. I'm not trying to 'refine myself' anyway (lol). I don't want to do that. I just want to not have regrets and do my best to improve my conditions, I thought that reading 'Moshidora', ahahah (lol). Those are words by Drucker (lol). You may think that they are obvious things but when you read them in the book you understand everything again: "I see, I see! I can go to Koshien!" (lol). I also cook. I prepare brown rice at home. Basically I eat only that and tofu. But I'm not trying desperately to remodel my body, I just try to not overdo.
*The best seller "What if a woman manager of a school's baseball team reads "Management" by Drucker"
*Koshien is were baseball's tournment is held
[I don't really think that Shige must lose weight :\ I think he looks thin since the lives instead! Well...I just want him to feel good and happy with himself anyway :) I don't know if he was annoyed in general before the lives or if he was annoyed because he gained weight...if it was the first option...well it just makes me sad because I can easily imagine why he was annoyed and what made him want to have whatever job they offered him. :\ Maybe these are just my mind-trips though...]
☆ Collecting infos & criticism from senpais
Lately I asked about G2 to Maruyama-kun. Like: "What kind of person is he? Is he scary?" (lol). I'm collecting infos. In the end anyway my conclusion was that this work is different from Maruyama-kun's so there's nothing I can do but to work hard (lol). Like: "It can't be helped, I can only go on recklessly!". Then, entrusting to others is the best (lol). But he also gave me a good advice, that if I have my own thoughts I must express them well, doing this we will able to discover the best way to work. Isn't this passionate? I feel I was listening to it pretty normally. It's only that I don't want to be scolded (lol). Maybe it doesn't matter how other people play but, I know only my way of doing it and I had only one experience in theatre so I wonder how the others behave. I really love to talk about this, right? I guess I got a little too passionate. I kept drinking and saying: "I see~". Maruyama-kun also told me: "Shige-chan you lost weight!" (lol). "Don't your hair hurts?", "Aren't you getting fatter?", it's always only senpais to tell me such things. Only Ohno-kun is always like: "I don't think it's like that~" (lol).
[Sorry, I think this was kind of a mess...]
◎ On July you'll become 24 years old, what do you want to do on JUNE?
I will be doing the play? (lol). Anyway I really want to travel. I want to leave just after the end of the butai, I'm doing my best thinking to this (lol). Before the rehearsals I went to Kanazawa to enter in the right mood but when it will be over I want to go to Shikoku. I decided that in July I want to go to Shikoku and eat udon and I will live my June for that (lol).
◎ Tell us a slightly BITTER failure you experienced recently!
On the beginning of the new year due to rush I left my humidifier on and went out. When I came back I found my living room and the kitchen flooded with around 1cm of water. Isn't this bitter? (lol). Having to take off my clothes and dry the floor with a towel was a real shock (lol).
◎ Do you ever buy or eat ORANGES?
I don't eat many fruits. I don't like sweet food. The ones I buy are...Delaware, I guess. Those are really good! I love them. Whenever I go to do the groceries and see them I really want to buy them. I buy them only from time to time though (lol). There's fine because they have no seeds.
Credits: Kyara - Watchful21
✿ How do you feel going back on a theatre play after two years?
I'm happy! Somehow I wanted to work in a play again. The previous time I felt a big sense of fullfillment so I thought that it would be great to be able to do one every year. I mostly get roles of extremely useless guys, more than elite characters like Dekisugi* (lol), and moreover I always have to play crying scenes. I cried in the previous butai too, I became kinda confortable about crying on stage. This time the show is more human, it's a story that could happen in every house, I think it would be good if we can sublimate its reality. Me and Joshima-kun play the role of two brother but we both are only children, just because of this we must turn this fake brotherwook into reality. I still have to learn many things.
*Dekisugi is a Doraemon character, that kid who teased Nobita because he was good in anything.
✿ What could you notice about the director G2?
Recently I went to see the play in which stars Maruyama-kun, 'Gilbert Grape'. Mostly because I'm a good friend with Maruyama-kun though (lol). In reality he asked to talk with me before he wrote the script, we saw each other last Autumn. I thought: "Eh? Isn't this a little early!? The butai is next year!!" (lol). Maybe my character comes out a little from what G2 saw of me.
[That's really cool! So G2 had in mind Shige for this play, it's not like he was randomly chosen!]
✿ How are you getting ready to rehearsals and the real show?
When I went to see the plays of my actor friends before, since they were really good, I asked them which was their preparation. I've been told once: "You just have to increase the communication". The script is important but to build good relationships without reserves is important as well. I want to be able to build such positive relationships too...sorry I became too serious! (Blushes). I'm unexpectedly shy and I get very embarrassed when we have to improvise. Right now I'm preparing my mind to overcome this too (lol). This is very important to me, I keep saying: "Don't be nervous!" (lol). Take long breathes and try to look dignified, remember that even if you fail there are people watching you. This is what I learnt being a Johnny's.
✿ What kind of play will it be?
At first I thought it was a comedy but actually it's a moving story. Saying that it's moving sounds childish but I think this is exactly the meaning conveyed by 'bitter orange'. It's like a little bitter fruit but...how to say it...it's like a sweet too. I'll be happy if people who will watch it will say at the end: "It was a little touching". I want this to be a kind of play that people who feel a little down, because they were scolded by their boss or something, will watch and feel encouraged again, so that the next day it will be a little brighter day. I'm sure it will give good impressions.
[So nice...he's such a nice guy]
☆ A perfect physical conditions' control
I lost weight but it wasn't for the play (lol). I've always been a lazy boy but I started to feel lively again. My theme this year is: 'Shed skin'. Little by little of course. I start to think that I will look forward to any job I can get. This was before the lives...or am I wrong? Somehow I was annoyed (lol). When in Summer I began to go to the gym at first I gained weight, people around me kept noticing it and I answered: "I'm working on it!" (lol). But in was also true so I kept that in mind and even during the lives I limited myself to eat only one bowl of brown rice. That wasn't sane anyway, so I started all over again. I'm not trying to 'refine myself' anyway (lol). I don't want to do that. I just want to not have regrets and do my best to improve my conditions, I thought that reading 'Moshidora', ahahah (lol). Those are words by Drucker (lol). You may think that they are obvious things but when you read them in the book you understand everything again: "I see, I see! I can go to Koshien!" (lol). I also cook. I prepare brown rice at home. Basically I eat only that and tofu. But I'm not trying desperately to remodel my body, I just try to not overdo.
*The best seller "What if a woman manager of a school's baseball team reads "Management" by Drucker"
*Koshien is were baseball's tournment is held
[I don't really think that Shige must lose weight :\ I think he looks thin since the lives instead! Well...I just want him to feel good and happy with himself anyway :) I don't know if he was annoyed in general before the lives or if he was annoyed because he gained weight...if it was the first option...well it just makes me sad because I can easily imagine why he was annoyed and what made him want to have whatever job they offered him. :\ Maybe these are just my mind-trips though...]
☆ Collecting infos & criticism from senpais
Lately I asked about G2 to Maruyama-kun. Like: "What kind of person is he? Is he scary?" (lol). I'm collecting infos. In the end anyway my conclusion was that this work is different from Maruyama-kun's so there's nothing I can do but to work hard (lol). Like: "It can't be helped, I can only go on recklessly!". Then, entrusting to others is the best (lol). But he also gave me a good advice, that if I have my own thoughts I must express them well, doing this we will able to discover the best way to work. Isn't this passionate? I feel I was listening to it pretty normally. It's only that I don't want to be scolded (lol). Maybe it doesn't matter how other people play but, I know only my way of doing it and I had only one experience in theatre so I wonder how the others behave. I really love to talk about this, right? I guess I got a little too passionate. I kept drinking and saying: "I see~". Maruyama-kun also told me: "Shige-chan you lost weight!" (lol). "Don't your hair hurts?", "Aren't you getting fatter?", it's always only senpais to tell me such things. Only Ohno-kun is always like: "I don't think it's like that~" (lol).
[Sorry, I think this was kind of a mess...]
◎ On July you'll become 24 years old, what do you want to do on JUNE?
I will be doing the play? (lol). Anyway I really want to travel. I want to leave just after the end of the butai, I'm doing my best thinking to this (lol). Before the rehearsals I went to Kanazawa to enter in the right mood but when it will be over I want to go to Shikoku. I decided that in July I want to go to Shikoku and eat udon and I will live my June for that (lol).
◎ Tell us a slightly BITTER failure you experienced recently!
On the beginning of the new year due to rush I left my humidifier on and went out. When I came back I found my living room and the kitchen flooded with around 1cm of water. Isn't this bitter? (lol). Having to take off my clothes and dry the floor with a towel was a real shock (lol).
◎ Do you ever buy or eat ORANGES?
I don't eat many fruits. I don't like sweet food. The ones I buy are...Delaware, I guess. Those are really good! I love them. Whenever I go to do the groceries and see them I really want to buy them. I buy them only from time to time though (lol). There's fine because they have no seeds.