Rie Tanaka 田中 理恵 | Vintage Interview | Time of Eve『イヴの時間』
Ah, that’s right. I got mixed up, and thought the
non-voice recording was at the end. Right, we did non-dialogue recording
earlier, then the final episode ADR… – Yes, that was it.
– Right. – It’s been a very long time.
– Yes, it has. You look good. You look good too. Though I’ve developed crow’s
feet from all the stress. In the booth, my first time doing
ADR while hearing sound effects. – It was a brand new experience.
– Was it? With the effects in, we could hear where each
sound went, and get a real feel for the setting. It was a lot of fun being able to record like that. By luck, they were ready before episode 1 ADR. At first, I asked Mr. Fukuyama and
Mr. Nojima if they wanted those muted, but they said it was better with them,
so we did the ADR with the sounds playing. It’s only now that I realize how unique that was. That’s right, it was very unique. When I watched it through later… Sammy had been hard for me to grasp,
compared to Nagi and Rikuo. But with her voice added, I finally got it:
Right, that’s how she is. So, after actually hearing her voice,
the creative process got much easier. – I really like playing Android Sammy.
– You do? With each syllable clearly enunciated. It’s fun. In contrast, after that performance, I worried
about how to portray human-like Sammy. Is she just a cute girl? Or is she a bit more fragile,
getting worried easily? Things like that. She did have more of a sense of fragility,
so you were exactly right. I also wondered how many new scenes there’d be. But like the director said before,
seeing it all combined together, made my own changes, my character’s
changes, much easier to understand. Sammy was very androidy at first, without
many human facial expressions, but by the end, seeing her without her ring, you’d maybe
wonder if she was human… or think she’s cute. And that new cut, with her messing with her
hair in front of the mirror, really wowed me. That took a lot of effort, but I wanted to show
one candid moment of Sammy’s changes. It was just so cute, like, “aww.” Director? Well, what I got from it all was, how Android Sammy from the first
stage and the human-like Sammy, who had been like separate personalities,
were gradually integrated by episode six. I could see them combining as one, so it was
a very significant performance thematically. Like in that scene with the hair… Yes, definitely. Though that was a difficult scene, once we actually saw it up on the
screen, we all thought, “Yes!” Yes. Actually, I almost never cry when
watching something I made myself, but when I first saw it on the big screen
while checking the movie version, that was the scene where I cried too. Yeah, stories like Katoran’s
really make you cry. I thought, it must be seeing it in a theater
that causes such waves of emotion. It really is different,
getting that theater experience. Experiencing Time of EVE
Original AR (Augmented Reality) It’s not responding… – Wait, don’t hold by the “C”.
– Oh, so like this? Good, there it is.
It’s pretty responsive to depth. Reproducing the Android Ring
from the Movie Like this? Up a bit more… Then cover it… Is it still there? Does it look fine? Wow, it’s Sammy, the real Sammy. Understood, Master. Your dinner is… ruined. I am terribly sorry. I will say…
will say it once more. Your dinner is ready, Master.
Circa 2009/2010 interview with director Yasuhiro Yoshiura.
