Taken from TV Pia 10/21 with Nagase Tomoya on cover (incomplete because I don't have the legal copyright)

Nagase: Seeing Saki-chan on TV Commercials and others, I thought she was a lively and cute girl. However after meeting her in person, she is also very attractive! I got my heart beating faster (laugh)

Aibu: That's a pressure (laugh). For me, just as what I imagined of Nagase-san, he is like a "dependable elder brother"! I think I can have no worry following him.

Nagase: Ah! Yes, follow me! (laugh)

Interviewer: How are you going to act out the emotional relationship between Taro and Suzu?

Aibu: They told me to act out Suzu with her feeling of love for Taro-chan, and to act tomboyish.

Nagase: Well, unless we are actually in front of the camera in reality, there are many parts we don't know what feeling we would have. I want to value the creative energy that is born right on the spot.

Aibu: Actually Taro-chan is very gentle, his character is the type with natural integrity who will assert "I do this for myself, not for you" (note: so as not to make the other feel indebted). As I was reading the script, I thought "Isn't it the type of man that is quite rare nowadays?"

Nagase: Yes, his capacity for endurance is very good. At least I think this way of the character I am acting: " I wish there would be more men like him in this world". I am really attracted to Taro's character.

Aibu: But he's not gentle to Suzu (laugh)

Nagase: Well, because he's at a level where even a primary school kid can act mean to him and scold him (laugh). In that sense, he's also a useless man, isn't he?

Interviewer: It seems that you two are going to be a heart-warming and enjoyable pair.

Nagase: Hai. However, the drama in itself has this important theme of this painful meeting and separating...In that aspect, I think it will be good if the emotional relationship between Taro and Suzu can come through happily.

Interviewer: Beside these two characters, are there any other characters that you like?

Aibu: Sabako-san! (played by Saito Yuki). Because she's an actress I adore, as her fan I am worried how that wonderful Saito-san  is going to act out that character (laugh).

Nagase: She seems to be very earnest to do it, doesn't she? As for myself, I am looking forwards to (Sato) Ryuta-kun who usually gives me the strong impression of always smiling, to act as a hoodlum. Other than that, Takada Junji-san is great! (laugh). He seems to be having a very tough time with the Tosa dialect though. Talking about it, where are you from, Saki-chan?

Aibu: I'm from Hyougo Prefecture. Therefore it seems to be close to Tosa dialect too.

Nagase: Right now I am also doing my best practising to speak the dialect. But wow, last time I also went to Hokkaido location. I'm very busy!

Interviewer: Acting as Taro and Suzu who live in a movie theater, could you please tell us what is the first movie you saw in a theater?

Nagase: Perhaps it is "Memphis Belle". It's a war movie, isn't it? Although I was just a kid, I liked it so much that I brought money with me and saw it a few times.

Aibu: With me.....it is either Disney's or Ghibli's. But it's too long ago already....I can't recall what title it is.... (laugh)

End.
Note: Please do not take and post this translation elsewehere without asking for my permission.

	lightsoul - November 1, 2007 thank you for this!!
	Naiya - November 1, 2007 Thank you so much. After reading this line "... if the emotional relationship between Taro and Suzu can come through happily........" it’s even more harder to wait how the story will go on.
	2404 - November 1, 2007 Thank you for translating the article, it was very nice to read!!
	crix - November 7, 2007 tq!!!! for the translation ^__^ otsukare!

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