Seiya Suezawa Says He Does Not Believe Effort Is Always Rewarded At "mentor" Opening
Suezawa used the stage for the film's opening day to state plainly that effort alone does not guarantee a dream, which is a strange and specific thing for a young male idol to say in front of a paying audience.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Seiya Suezawa of Aぇ! group and Hayato Isomura appeared in Tokyo on October 16 for the opening-day greeting of the film "mentor." Suezawa said he does not believe effort always pays off, quoted a Walt Disney line he keeps as a motto, and called himself lucky to be working. Isomura told him he earns that luck.
The film is a drama about a distorted reunion. Two young men set an apartment fire with fireworks 15 years earlier; a man lost his wife and child in that fire. Isomura plays Ryunosuke, who buries his guilt and lives as an Olympic archery team candidate. Suezawa plays Takumi, held in place by the past.
Suezawa took the stage looking for reactions, and said he would tell his pre-shoot self not to be so scared. Go Ayano and director Keisuke Yoshida appeared as well. Ayano recalled Suezawa performing a dogeza on set and asked whether half his backside was buried in the ground, then called him cute. Yoshida said Suezawa carried out even the requests he had meant as jokes, seriously, so the director could not laugh.
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 Aぇ! group末澤誠也「自分は運がいい」謙虚な姿勢に磯村勇斗「あなたが勝ち取ってる」と絶賛