Kyoko Miyashita Proposed Han Linshin's Braid for VIVANT Season 2
The villain's look and the Chinese dialogue are both choices the actor pressed for, which puts the second season's central antagonist in the hands of the person playing her rather than the production alone.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Kyoko Miyashita plays Han Linshin, head of the private intelligence organization Xinsi, in the second season of the TBS Sunday Theater drama VIVANT. She says she built the role to avoid a one-dimensional villain, and suggested the character's long braid herself before the costume fitting. She also describes the difficulty of performing lines in Chinese.
Miyashita was already a viewer before she was cast. Her son waited for the first episode the way he waits for a favorite anime, and she says it had been a long time since she felt she could not wait a week for the next one. When the season 2 offer came, her reaction was to take it regardless of the role, and she describes the confirmation as happiness at getting to be inside that world.
She has been surprised by the response to a villain, saying social media comments have been positive. The braid was her pitch before the costume fitting, made on the reasoning that she could not compete with the rest of the cast without a distinctive look.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Cinema Today 「VIVANT」宮下今日子、ハン・リンシンの三つ編みは自ら提案 シンシー責任者の今後「どんどん恐ろしく」