Isomura Hayato and Suezawa Seiya Talk First Co-Starring Role in Yoshida Keisuke's mentor
Suezawa calls mentor his first starring film role as an individual, and the film rests almost entirely on the three-way dynamic among Suezawa, Isomura, and Ayano, which makes the pair's on-set chemistry a load-bearing part of the production rather than a press-tour detail.
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The film mentor, directed by Keisuke Yoshida, pairs Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa of Ae! group for the first time. Isomura plays Ryunosuke and Suezawa plays Takumi, childhood friends whose lives changed when a fireworks fire broke out 15 years earlier, opposite Go Ayano as Nonomoto. Isomura described their working relationship as like a little brother, and Suezawa as like an older brother.
Suezawa Seiya of Ae! group said mentor was his first starring film as an individual, and that he felt pressure joining Hayato Isomura and Go Ayano in a story that runs almost entirely through the three of them. He said he was scared up until filming began, and that he worked through Takumi's shifting state of mind with director Keisuke Yoshida while shooting. Isomura said he took the offer partly on the strength of Yoshida's earlier work, and singled out Suezawa's expression at the climax as a scene he now counts among his favorites.
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- Cinema Today 磯村勇斗＆末澤誠也、初共演で芽生えた兄弟のような絆 衝撃作『mentor』で役者の魅力実感