Actress Yukino Kishii. What she found and looked for in the film "What is Love?

bank (of a river)I read it for the first time when I was told about this project and found it too interesting. At first I read it objectively, thinking "I am going to play the role of Teruko," but after only about four pages, I felt like a "reader" completely. It was so interesting that I read it in one sitting. It is different from the straight "romance novel" genre, and I wondered what genre it was. I wondered. I was also driven to read more of Ms. Tsunoda's works in which she writes about the human heart that is a little bit out of the ordinary. At the same time, I felt anxious, "What should I do since it's so interesting? I found myself returning to myself and thinking that my performance could ruin it all at once.

bank (of a river)I don't think of myself as a person like Teruko, and I don't know anyone around me who is that type of person, but when I read the original story, I thought it was truly amazing and enviable that I could be so devoted to someone I love so much. I don't have a single person or thing that is important to me, and I don't have the extreme way of thinking like Teruko, who says, "For Mamo-chan, I would quit my job and don't even need friends. But I genuinely thought it was amazing that she had the energy, persistence, and conviction to do so, as if it were a matter of course.

bank (of a river)There is a scene in which Teruko is told that even if Mamoru says terrible things to her or she is fired from her job, she will at least eat properly, and I am the same way (laughs). (Laughs.) Some people lose the ability to eat when they have been through a shocking event, but I am not the type to do that. The other thing is the "passion" of the telco. I don't care only about the person I have a crush on, and I don't go all out for them, but I don't think I'm so different from Teruko in the amount of passion I put into thinking about someone else and striving toward a goal.

bank (of a river)I think I am honest in casual everyday communication. However, I am not very good at situations where I have to express my feelings in a formal way. I think, "Someone write me a script!" I think (laughs). (Laughs.) Sometimes I think, "If someone wrote a script, I could say it better. People tend to think that I am good at conveying my feelings to others when I do this kind of work, but I am not good at it. So, when I want to convey something important, I first write it down in bullet points in a notebook and organize it in my mind before facing the other person.