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mottoyomitaiKawashima Noeru
2021 was a fulfilling year for me from an individual standpoint as well, as I appeared in around 30 shows on TV, particularly quiz shows. Up till last year I was only invited to appear in a small handful of regular quiz shows and quiz specials, but this year I was also able to appear in TV specials at the start and end of the year, and I felt like I was able to experience doing the things I wanted, the things I liked, as part of my work. I was really scared, when I watched the on-air broadcast of my first ever appearance on a quiz show. I don’t really like to think about how nervous I was back then (laughs). But I’ve become able to look forward to the broadcasts now, which is a big change. More than whether or not I got the quiz questions right, I tend to reflect more on “I could have made a better comment at this point”. I can feel myself improving each time I appear (on TV), which makes me happy. And also, I’m working hard in my own way from day to day, which is fun! For example, when I open Safari on my phone, I’ve had it set up so that I can take a look at all the things I’m supposed to memorise at once. There’s about 30 categories at the moment. Among all those tabs, I make sure to put Hermann Ebbinghaus’ “Forgetting Curve”* on the very first tab. Ebbinghaus’ “Forgetting Curve” states that “People will forget within one day 74% of what they have learnt, and forget 79% within a month”. If you review what you’ve learned when your memory is fading, that anchors the knowledge more firmly in your mind, so in order to build that routine I always have the things I want to memorise open in my various tabs. I love putting in that kind of effort as well. Humans can live without knowing anything, but I’m the type of person who thinks that to know things is interesting, someone whose intellectual sense of enquiry is overflowing. But I didn’t know that that desire to learn, that fuel in relation to knowledge was something that was inside me all along, until 2 years ago. What set that fuel alight was the chance to appear on quiz shows. And it was kept burning by the support of my fans. Because everyone helped to light this fire, I’m able to pursue these kinds of work now, and I’m very thankful. Speaking of the Johnnys’ Quiz Club, Bi Shounen’s Nasu (Yuto)-kun and Ukisho (Hidaka)-kun are also very passionate about memorising things. Though I’m an all-rounder, Motodaka (Katsuki)-kun of 7 MEN Samurai is very good at specialised fields of knowledge. Our balance as a team is really good, so I’d like us to take up and win more challenges next year.
[T/N: Hermann Ebbinghaus is a German psychologist. His “Forgetting Curve” is a graphical representation of how humans lose learned knowledge over time if they do not consciously review what they learn.]
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Matsuda Genta
It was a jam-packed year where I was able to experience many things, and meet a lot of people. We started filming for the movie “Kimi ga Otoshita Aozora” right after the conclusion of last year’s “Toraja -NINJAPAN- 2020”, and continued filming all the way until the year-end, but when I went to watched the advance screening of the movie, I personally felt like… I’d like to re-film everything from scratch (laughs). No, that’s just my own opinion. Because Noeru said “It’s really good”, I’ll think of it more as a self-reflection, but I feel like (at the time of filming) I wasn’t really used to filming for a movie, so I wasn’t really conscious of the more complex details like the tone of my voice, the way I used my gaze, the way I breathed and blinked. I feel like I wasn’t able to really achieve those finer details. On top of that, it was my first time playing the shining school idol, and my core isn’t really the sparkling, shining type (laughs), so it was difficult to get a grasp of the role! I tripped up a lot during the filming, especially at the start when I really hadn’t gotten a grasp of my character, and I couldn’t put forward the performance I wanted to, and so my self-confidence dropped. When I think about it now, I think perhaps I was overthinking the role. I discussed with the director and tried out a lot of different versions (of the character), and worked hard to get closer to the correct one bit by bit, but in the end the hazy feeling of not knowing whether or not I’d grasped the character correctly continued. I think that the job of an actor is to put out the performance expected of you in the form requested of you, but my own skills were limited, and no matter how much I tried to open up the drawer it was just empty on the inside, so it just felt like I was completely lost within a maze. My co-star Fukumoto Riko-chan was amazing, too, so that was quite tough on me mentally (laughs). I was super relieved when we wrapped. Although this movie I slaved over will come out in cinemas on 18 February (laughs), I think this was really an important experience for me. And then, I was able to put into practice my experience from the movie when I was filming the recurring drama “Dakara Korosenakatta” (airing from 9 January on WOWOW). But after experiencing these two projects, I’ve come to realise that I’m someone who doesn’t really have a clear switch between their work mode and private mode. Especially for the drama, because I was so concerned with making sure I could do all the things I was unable to in the movie, so during that period I was Ebara Yoichiro* even at home (laughs). It was normal to be in character right before filming, but sometimes in other venues or in private the character would creep up on me and hold me in place. I couldn’t smile properly for magazine shoots, too. I didn’t know I could sink into a character that deeply, so that was a new discovery for me.
[T/N: The name of Genta’s character in the drama “Dakara Korosenakatta”.]
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Date: 2022-03-16 04:36 am (UTC)