Ohm Thanapat Recalls Holding Back Until Ryusei Ryo Told Him To Go All Out On VIVANT
VIVANT's Thai-cast monitor role and the pair's improvised closeness are the interview's real subject, which matters more to the show's casting than to its plot mechanics.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
In the TBS Sunday drama VIVANT, Ohm Thanapat plays Chokki Thepnimit, a Thai businessman who works as a monitor for the organization Tent. The Thai actor and musician said in an interview that he held back in his first scenes with Ryusei Ryo, who plays Kotaro Shinjo, until Ryo told him he could hug him and go all out.
Ohm Thanapat said the challenge in Chokki was physical and vocal rather than dramatic: tone of voice, gestures, gaze, and hand movements, because he had to make clear what kind of person Chokki is. He described himself as rougher and more masculine than the role, and said he had often played manly men before, so bringing out a softer, more refined quality was new work for him.
He also recalled watching Masato Sakai deliver a speech of roughly three pages of script in the strategy meeting scene to rescue the separate squad, memorized without a stumble. Sakai is a role model he admires, he said.
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- Cinema Today 「VIVANT」チョッキー役、“新ちゃん”の言葉が自信に 竜星涼とのシーンは遠慮なし「とても愛すべき人」