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It was powerful and yet...
Sticky.
This battle with these two powerful characters...
I’m not sure there's a more intense fight scene out there.
I didn't think about anything other than this fight.
I was completely fascinated by it.
In making that scene,
Mr. Kojima was very flexible.
We tried many different approaches.
We joked with each other while doing so, which helped me relax.
In order to memorize all the script lines,
I went to a café...
I had my coffee, cigarette and script.
I sat there and repeated my lines over and over again.
It was like his pain was my pain.
I felt the heart ache
during their fight.
This time around, Raiden became much tougher and yet his heart still aches.
Even though he might be a Cyborg, and might be immortal.
He's still much more human.
He's been influenced by working in the field,
and by being surrounded by war.
However, I think he treats all this as his job.
He doesn't seem to care about the war and the fact that people are dying.
So when I performed this part, I tried to making it sound like
I was just doing my job.
I wanted to reflect a sense of irresponsibility in my voice...
As if all this is a casual to him as selling vegetables.
I tried to add some lightness to his voice.
Like parents and their child,
Drebin and Little Gray trust each other.
Yet, they know that someday
that they'll go their separate ways.
They're never apart, are they?
I sometimes think Little Gray just wants to have a drink.
And maybe that's why he's with Drebin.
I don't think they care about each other that much.
However, I think having that monkey around
adds to Drebin.
As a character, I think Drebin was enhanced by Little Gray.
I was asked if I could perform motion-capture like a monkey...
I told them, "Of course. As a kid I'd play around and act like a monkey with friends."
So when I tried out for the role at the auditions
they all said, "We've found our Little Gray!"
Otacon got handsome, didn't he?
When he first appeared, he totally looked like a complete otaku.
I guess he's been through so many stages of life,
and matured in the process.
So I kept that in mind and reflected that in my performance.
I can feel how Vamp feels.
Being undead, and his wish to have a dramatic ending to his life,
is pretty close to the themes found in my movies.
I have some empathy for Vamp.
Not because I understand how he feels,
but as a theme, like in a film,
I understand this character very well.
Sunny has such an important role in this game.
And she is such a beautiful character.
First I was little bit hesitant to do her voice,
but realized how fortunate I am to play such a wonderful character like her.
I was overjoyed.
I find it much more fun to play a villain.
It allows me to have more emotional range.
In regular training,
moving crisply is the key.
But at times, Mr. Kojima told me that I moved too energetically, like a young hero.
He advised me to move a bit more like an old man.
I wasn't sure about my performance of two knives slashing.
I trained on how to move like a samurai, with a Japanese samurai sword.