Saitou NEWS!
6 November 2006 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fencer_xTwo orders of business:
1) Found out on Mixi that Saitou's collaborating with some company to release JEWELRY. You can check it out (and a HOT PICTURE of Saitou sporting it) here. Warning though: it's ASS expensive--21,000 yen for a charm bracelet (that's ~$200). And yet I know there are a TON of people in Japan who'll still buy it.
2) sldfkjhsldfkjsdf stumbled across an interview with the 3 BL guys on the animate site (again, through mixi XD) here and translated Saitou's answers cause that's all I've got time for right now 8DDDDD
Please tell us your thoughts on portraying your character.
Saitou Takumi-san: As for me, I personally didn't pursue any sort of special way to portray my character. There were lots of similar points between myself and Noeru to begin with, so for me the most important point was wanting to portray him as myself. There are many homosexuals around me as well, and I'm always exposed to the troubles they experience, seeing how hard they're trying, how they're being discriminated against. But in the end, whether you're pursuing someone of the same sex or opposite sex, those feelings you experience when you fall in love with someone are exactly the same, and I want to portray it as something that you come to accept as given.
Where there any troubles you experienced during filming?
Saitou Takumi-san: There was no sort of mental or emotional strain, and the filming itself was very compressed stamina-wise, so it was the same, but I think it was pretty tough on the staff. But the love scenes were pretty difficult. I told them myself that I wanted there to be more of the scenes, but just as I thought, since I don't love men myself, it felt pretty weird loving another man. Especially with the beard. This doesn't have anything to do with the characters, but when I felt my partner's beard, like around his cheek area, it reminded me of my own--something I haven't felt since my father's.
[T/N: sakdfjghkdjfgsdf SO IN OTHER WORDS, YOU LIKE 'EM YOUNG, HMMMMMM????]
Did you have any opposition to doing a movie with a 「Boy's Love (Homosexual Love)」 theme?
Saitou Takumi-san: None whatsoever. When you view it objectively, I feel that it's a really intriguing theme. And especially this work, the title's so straightforward. 「Boy's Love」 is really catchy, it's nice. When I perused the particulars I thought, "This'll really throw those people watching just because it's 'boy's love' for a loop." We'll really be able to get back at those people who saw the title and felt that they could pretty well imagine the contents.
In 『BOYS LOVE』, you all portrayed a 「forbidden love」. What exactly is "Love" to you?
Saitou Takumi-san: I feel that love is something you're free to give to anyone. During a play, lots of different words will come out of your mouth--like with Shakespeare, you'll use lots of different words and quotations and such, but I feel that he was probably just writing about men and women, and whatever came to his mind at the time. But it was really a learning experience seeing that even if your partner is of the same sex those words can still have the same effect.
1) Found out on Mixi that Saitou's collaborating with some company to release JEWELRY. You can check it out (and a HOT PICTURE of Saitou sporting it) here. Warning though: it's ASS expensive--21,000 yen for a charm bracelet (that's ~$200). And yet I know there are a TON of people in Japan who'll still buy it.
2) sldfkjhsldfkjsdf stumbled across an interview with the 3 BL guys on the animate site (again, through mixi XD) here and translated Saitou's answers cause that's all I've got time for right now 8DDDDD
Please tell us your thoughts on portraying your character.
Saitou Takumi-san: As for me, I personally didn't pursue any sort of special way to portray my character. There were lots of similar points between myself and Noeru to begin with, so for me the most important point was wanting to portray him as myself. There are many homosexuals around me as well, and I'm always exposed to the troubles they experience, seeing how hard they're trying, how they're being discriminated against. But in the end, whether you're pursuing someone of the same sex or opposite sex, those feelings you experience when you fall in love with someone are exactly the same, and I want to portray it as something that you come to accept as given.
Where there any troubles you experienced during filming?
Saitou Takumi-san: There was no sort of mental or emotional strain, and the filming itself was very compressed stamina-wise, so it was the same, but I think it was pretty tough on the staff. But the love scenes were pretty difficult. I told them myself that I wanted there to be more of the scenes, but just as I thought, since I don't love men myself, it felt pretty weird loving another man. Especially with the beard. This doesn't have anything to do with the characters, but when I felt my partner's beard, like around his cheek area, it reminded me of my own--something I haven't felt since my father's.
[T/N: sakdfjghkdjfgsdf SO IN OTHER WORDS, YOU LIKE 'EM YOUNG, HMMMMMM????]
Did you have any opposition to doing a movie with a 「Boy's Love (Homosexual Love)」 theme?
Saitou Takumi-san: None whatsoever. When you view it objectively, I feel that it's a really intriguing theme. And especially this work, the title's so straightforward. 「Boy's Love」 is really catchy, it's nice. When I perused the particulars I thought, "This'll really throw those people watching just because it's 'boy's love' for a loop." We'll really be able to get back at those people who saw the title and felt that they could pretty well imagine the contents.
In 『BOYS LOVE』, you all portrayed a 「forbidden love」. What exactly is "Love" to you?
Saitou Takumi-san: I feel that love is something you're free to give to anyone. During a play, lots of different words will come out of your mouth--like with Shakespeare, you'll use lots of different words and quotations and such, but I feel that he was probably just writing about men and women, and whatever came to his mind at the time. But it was really a learning experience seeing that even if your partner is of the same sex those words can still have the same effect.
