Nino More 11/2010
I definitely think this is one of his most interesting MORE columns in a while. At least for me. I have so many things I want to comment on, but I won't, lol. But it really hit home while translating this how very Japanese Nino is, and also how smart.
Episode 23: Coward
With tour preparations reaching their climax, Nino begins filming for a serial drama after a two year hiatus. When asked about it, he says, "It's only the fourth day since we've started filming, but... Well, it's going frighteningly well," in a faintly joking tone. Even his simple words seem to contain something more.
It's fun, and it really is going well. (smiling) And I'm getting along well with the people I've never met before. Well, I say that when there's still a long way to go, but we've gotten four days' worth of closeness, I think. But I think that's fine. You wouldn't expect the distance to suddenly disappear, and to be insanely close that quickly would be frightening.
He's done filming for many dramas before now. During dramas, and during work, how does he feel he should behave? In the answer to that is a very Nino method and manner.
I never read all of the script. I only read the parts that I'm in, and only my own lines. As an actor, the things that you yourself do are more important than the contents of the work. I think I learned that method naturally back when I first started appearing in dramas. No one taught me how to read the script, after all. I think as I acted I felt as if doing it in that manner suited me the best. Probably other actors went through trial and error to find their own methods, but..... Honestly, that's the only way I know how to do it. I've never tried any other way.
When asked why, he answers, "Obviously because it's scary, (smiling)" once again with that teasing tone. But isn't he the one that declares he can stand on a concert stage in front of 70,000 people without feeling nervous?
I don't get nervous, but it is scary. I mean, what I'm doing, it's not just fooling around. For the most part, everything is the real thing. The more conscious I am of how I can't make mistakes, the more frightening it gets. To an audience I probably seem bold, but it's exactly the opposite. I really, really think that I'm a timid, cowardly person.
On variety shows and during interviews, he comes across as a person who marches to his own drum, behaving with abandon. In reality, in his work and his conversations there's a lack of pre-determinedness that's fascinating. However, within in that freedom there's a property of fear that's created, which could be called one of Nino's methods.
I don't like things to be pre-determined, but I do believe that it's easier if there's a minimal fundamental rule underlying things. To use variety shows as an example, when someone's supposed to set up the joke, they set it, and when someone's supposed to trip the joke they trip it. Working within that frame brings freedom, doesn't it? If everyone just did what they wanted, you wouldn't call them free, right? That would be like dying black cloth black, where the "freedom" just doesn't stand out. If there's no underlying rule, you can't be free, and can't enjoy that freedom....
I'm finally able to have good personal relationships at work.
Speaking of which, he once said, "When I was a child I was incredibly shy and disliked people. I was bullied at school."
I think my shyness has faded, predictably. It would be really strange if I were doing this work where I meet and talk to so many people and it didn't get better, right. (smiling) In any type of work, your relationships are important. For me, being part of the entertainment world, I think my relationships there might have improved. Well, though I still sometimes worry about my relationship with people from my own generation (smiling)
Of course there's also a very Nino method in his relationships with people at work.
After communication, the thing I consider most important is for other people to think well of me. So whatever it is they want to do, or what their personality is, I'm the one that bends to that first. I let people that want to talk talk to me to their heart's content, and I give up control to people who want to take the initiative. On top of that, when it comes to work, I generally don't express my own desires. I've never said anything like "I want to appear in this kind of a movie," or "I want to have a serial column in MORE." (smiling) It's never occurred to me to choose my own work, or to do outrageous things. I don't ever say anything about it, but I do encourage the people I'm talking to towards the direction I'd like to go. But until the end, I'm still set on respecting and accepting the intentions of whomever I'm talking to. For example, when someone asks me a question, I'm often thinking two or three steps ahead while I answer. If I say this, they'll probably ask me this..... I'm reading ahead like that. I used to do it unconsciously, but since I took up magic I came to understand myself as logical. Because it's the same theory as what magic uses. But even though I control conversations like that, I'm really pretty boring. Well, I mean, if I felt good about that I would be a pretty despicable guy, right..... I wonder if I'm a despicable guy? (smiling)
And of course he says that once more with a bit of a joking edge. The fact that he doesn't make an issue of his own opinions, and that he reads ahead in the conversation without meaning to, would that be a result of being a timid person, more than of being an unpleasant one? And the result, where he's not distracted by outrageous things or by freedom, is another thing that makes Nino appealing.
Profile caption:
The topic of magic came up for the first time in a while, we mentiond "Lately, you haven't had your cards," to which he says, "Actually I have them every day," and points at his bag. "I usually play with them every day, but I usually don't show anyone anymore. Even if someone asks, I won't. (smiling)"
Episode 23: Coward
With tour preparations reaching their climax, Nino begins filming for a serial drama after a two year hiatus. When asked about it, he says, "It's only the fourth day since we've started filming, but... Well, it's going frighteningly well," in a faintly joking tone. Even his simple words seem to contain something more.
It's fun, and it really is going well. (smiling) And I'm getting along well with the people I've never met before. Well, I say that when there's still a long way to go, but we've gotten four days' worth of closeness, I think. But I think that's fine. You wouldn't expect the distance to suddenly disappear, and to be insanely close that quickly would be frightening.
He's done filming for many dramas before now. During dramas, and during work, how does he feel he should behave? In the answer to that is a very Nino method and manner.
I never read all of the script. I only read the parts that I'm in, and only my own lines. As an actor, the things that you yourself do are more important than the contents of the work. I think I learned that method naturally back when I first started appearing in dramas. No one taught me how to read the script, after all. I think as I acted I felt as if doing it in that manner suited me the best. Probably other actors went through trial and error to find their own methods, but..... Honestly, that's the only way I know how to do it. I've never tried any other way.
When asked why, he answers, "Obviously because it's scary, (smiling)" once again with that teasing tone. But isn't he the one that declares he can stand on a concert stage in front of 70,000 people without feeling nervous?
I don't get nervous, but it is scary. I mean, what I'm doing, it's not just fooling around. For the most part, everything is the real thing. The more conscious I am of how I can't make mistakes, the more frightening it gets. To an audience I probably seem bold, but it's exactly the opposite. I really, really think that I'm a timid, cowardly person.
On variety shows and during interviews, he comes across as a person who marches to his own drum, behaving with abandon. In reality, in his work and his conversations there's a lack of pre-determinedness that's fascinating. However, within in that freedom there's a property of fear that's created, which could be called one of Nino's methods.
I don't like things to be pre-determined, but I do believe that it's easier if there's a minimal fundamental rule underlying things. To use variety shows as an example, when someone's supposed to set up the joke, they set it, and when someone's supposed to trip the joke they trip it. Working within that frame brings freedom, doesn't it? If everyone just did what they wanted, you wouldn't call them free, right? That would be like dying black cloth black, where the "freedom" just doesn't stand out. If there's no underlying rule, you can't be free, and can't enjoy that freedom....
I'm finally able to have good personal relationships at work.
Speaking of which, he once said, "When I was a child I was incredibly shy and disliked people. I was bullied at school."
I think my shyness has faded, predictably. It would be really strange if I were doing this work where I meet and talk to so many people and it didn't get better, right. (smiling) In any type of work, your relationships are important. For me, being part of the entertainment world, I think my relationships there might have improved. Well, though I still sometimes worry about my relationship with people from my own generation (smiling)
Of course there's also a very Nino method in his relationships with people at work.
After communication, the thing I consider most important is for other people to think well of me. So whatever it is they want to do, or what their personality is, I'm the one that bends to that first. I let people that want to talk talk to me to their heart's content, and I give up control to people who want to take the initiative. On top of that, when it comes to work, I generally don't express my own desires. I've never said anything like "I want to appear in this kind of a movie," or "I want to have a serial column in MORE." (smiling) It's never occurred to me to choose my own work, or to do outrageous things. I don't ever say anything about it, but I do encourage the people I'm talking to towards the direction I'd like to go. But until the end, I'm still set on respecting and accepting the intentions of whomever I'm talking to. For example, when someone asks me a question, I'm often thinking two or three steps ahead while I answer. If I say this, they'll probably ask me this..... I'm reading ahead like that. I used to do it unconsciously, but since I took up magic I came to understand myself as logical. Because it's the same theory as what magic uses. But even though I control conversations like that, I'm really pretty boring. Well, I mean, if I felt good about that I would be a pretty despicable guy, right..... I wonder if I'm a despicable guy? (smiling)
And of course he says that once more with a bit of a joking edge. The fact that he doesn't make an issue of his own opinions, and that he reads ahead in the conversation without meaning to, would that be a result of being a timid person, more than of being an unpleasant one? And the result, where he's not distracted by outrageous things or by freedom, is another thing that makes Nino appealing.
Profile caption:
The topic of magic came up for the first time in a while, we mentiond "Lately, you haven't had your cards," to which he says, "Actually I have them every day," and points at his bag. "I usually play with them every day, but I usually don't show anyone anymore. Even if someone asks, I won't. (smiling)"