UTA Appointed Ambassador For DC's Clayface
The ambassador pick leans on a specific parallel: UTA has already played a man who becomes a monster, which is the same arc Clayface asks audiences to follow.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Model and actor UTA has been named ambassador for DC Studios' Clayface, which opens in theaters across Japan on October 30. An interview video with UTA was released alongside the announcement. UTA, who played a man transformed into a monstrous figure in the Netflix series Gas Ningen, said the young actor Matt Hagen's fall from the brink of success felt personal.
UTA, who describes himself as a DC fan, plays the lead in the Netflix series Gas Ningen, where his character turns from a man into something no longer human. That role is the reason he says he connected to Matt Hagen, the young star at the center of Clayface. In the interview video, UTA said the words that came to him first after watching were "the story of a sad monster," and that Hagen's collapse right after nearly grasping his dream did not feel like someone else's problem.
He also pointed to the film's effects work and said the story resists a clean split between good and evil.
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- Cinema Today UTA、DC『クレイフェイス』アンバサダー就任 「ガス人間」での経験重ね「他人事とは思えなかった」