It's okay not to ask, but when asked, Watanabe Wan Yumi took the opportunity to throw the ball to him, "Do you have any thoughts about this?"
Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't catch the ball, "I'm ashamed, I know very little about actors." After thinking about it, "However, I can tell you the direction in which I choose actors."
Watanabe Manyumi gave him a "go on" look.
"As long as it's not a prank, when choosing an actor to dress up as a woman, the first priority is naturally to be pretty and have a slender figure... If you see Kenzo Takakura dressing up in female form, you won't think it's appropriate, right?" Iwahashi
Shen Yi obeys the order.
Watanabe Wan Yumi smiled at his words and couldn't help but stare at his face again and again.
"However, being pretty is just the basics."
Accepting the mysterious gaze from Watanabe Manyumi, Iwahashi Shinichi continued, "There is a misunderstanding that the essence of men dressing up as women is the femininity of gestures. Therefore, important things are ignored."
Watanabe Wan Yumi was a little interested, "Oh?"
"It would be much simpler if the male protagonist's mother had sex change due to gender cognitive disorder. However, although she changed from male to female and lived as a female calmly, she was not completely female. It would be better to say
Similar to androgyny.”
Iwahashi Shinichi expressed his opinion, "So, if I were to choose an actor, I would choose an actor who is good with women and understands women's hearts. It would be better if his private life is more romantic."
Watanabe Mayumi listened with rapt attention.
"Although such a person understands women's hearts, this kind of consideration is still masculine. And the mother of the male protagonist in the book, the 'female' she became, is actually masculine."
Therefore, the female form imagined by an actor who understands women's hearts is roughly the form of the male protagonist's mother.
"Interesting." Watanabe Manyumi nodded and wanted to say something, but saw that Iwahashi Shinichi had something to say, so she held back.
"If this is the case, Kabuki actors are actually very suitable." Shinichi Iwahashi expressed his thoughts in one breath, "There is no Kabuki actor who is not popular with women and is not romantic enough."
"Indeed." Watanabe Wan Yumi smiled.
Romance can be regarded as a required course for kabuki actors.
Actors from Kabuki families often live together with others while married, and then have illegitimate children while they are still married, and all sorts of messy things happen. However, this kind of romance is not considered abnormal, but is tolerated.
There is a mysterious-sounding saying that Kabuki actors perform all the joys and sorrows of men and women on the stage. Therefore, in order to get better at playing, you must experience it while you are young. Romance means experiencing life.
Rolling around in a crowd of women is what kabuki actors do, and that is practicing spiritual practice.
As for the opera wife who was left at home, of course she fully supported her husband's "work". Marrying into a Kabuki family was not something ordinary people could do.
Learning to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle doesn't count, you have to have a clean background and a decent family background. Then you have to give up your career to support your husband and raise children, and you have to go all out to have a son, because the Kabuki profession is passed down from male to female.
"So, how about choosing from Kabuki actors?" Shinichi Iwahashi said, "Kabuki actors also take roles in movies and TV dramas in order to practice their acting skills."
After all, he really only has this gossip-level understanding of Kabuki.
The gossip magazines are really exciting and a great tool for killing time.
Hearing what he said, Watanabe Wan Yumi smiled and said, "I think pretty much the same as you."
Previously, she gave up directly casting an actress to play this role because she thought the actress's performance lacked something. After thinking about it for a long time, she realized that the reason why she felt this way was not because the actress was unnatural, but because she was too unnatural.
nature.
"In that case, why don't we just say it from the beginning?" Iwahashi Shinichi also laughed. He thought she had no clue, but now it seems that she has already made up her mind and is playing cards against him.
Watanabe Mayumi said with ease, "But if you think so, I have enough confidence."
"Ha ha!"
"However, my favorite candidate is not a kabuki actor. Dealing with kabuki actors is a bit complicated," Watanabe Manyumi told him, "it is an actor who performs for the masses."
The so-called popular drama, as the name suggests, is for the public and is performed in small theaters. The audience is ordinary people who go to relax after a day's work.
Tickets are cheap and there are no restrictive viewing rules.
Compared with the well-established kabuki, which has to be performed on a cypress stage, although its predecessor is just a folk drama created by Edo merchants, the popular theater also wears kimonos and imitates the performance process of kabuki, but it is a real
It's civilian entertainment.
Kabuki families are wealthy families, while popular theater families are ordinary entertainers who inherit their father's business.
"This actor is considered to be the most outstanding among the actors who perform for the masses." Watanabe Manyumi said, "Umezawa Fumio-san of the Asakusa Umezawa Theater Company."
Rich and Beautiful Man...that's a pretty good name.
"Umezawa-san's onna form performances were performed in public performances. He himself worked very hard to figure out women's behavior and psychology. He also left a story where he was regarded as a stalker because he was too absorbed in watching, and asked the observed women to call the police.
deeds."
"If he was stared at so hard, wouldn't it be strange to think that he is a pervert?"
Watanabe Wan Yumi smiled and said, "I would like to ask Umezawa-san to try out this role." After a pause, she said, "However, although it is a public drama, Umezawa-san is also a leader in it. I tried to ask him through his agency before.
I went there once and it seemed like they weren’t very interested in acting in movies.”
"But at least give it a try," she said. "It is said that Ishihara-san and Umezawa-san have been friends for many years, and I would like to ask him to help negotiate an agreement."
Iwahashi Shin nodded, "So it's 'in the plan'."
The Cosmos Theater is quite famous in Kansai, and Ishihara is a playwright who belongs to the theater and also serves as a director of the theater. They had made an appointment in advance. After their visit, Iwahashi Shinichi and Watanabe Manyumi were taken to Ishihara's lounge behind the theater.
Ishihara is about fifty years old. He has two deep nasolabial lines on his face and wears round-rimmed glasses. He looks just like what he imagined. He has a face that is always thinking about hard work.
Watanabe Wan Yumi met Ishihara and introduced Iwahashi Shinichi to him.
Afterwards, the three of them sat down on the sofa in the lounge together, and Ishihara called to order tea.
This was the first time that Watanabe Manyumi and Ishihara met. When they started to greet each other, they naturally started by greeting their elders. After chatting for a while, they heard a knock on the door.
"Please come in." Ishihara ordered.
The sound of the sliding paper door opening sounded almost at the same time as the words fell, and a little boy came in from the outside.
