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Kashigi Yabushige (Tadanobu Asano) is a man playing both sides and one side at once. The wily lord swears his allegiance to two masters: lords Ishido (Takehiro Hira) and Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), the feuding members of . When it appears the odds favor Ishido, Yabushige sides with him. When the tide turns back to Toranaga, Yabushige is happy to let the current sweep him away. So really, when it comes down to it, the Lord of Izu is only loyal to a single person: himself.
It’s fitting then, when asked for his favorite scene in “Shōgun,” that the actor bringing Yabushige to such shifty, spirited life zeroes in on a moment that reflects his character’s self-interests. Bridging the end of Episode 8, “The Abyss of Life,” and the start of Asano’s savored scenes are when Yabushige and Blackthorn (Cosmo Jarvis) form their “fundamental connection.” The Anjin, as Blackthorn is called by most of his Japanese friends (and enemies), comes to Yabushige with a proposal: Now that it appears Toranaga’s defeat is assured, let the Anjin serve Yabushige as a sailor and navigator. At first, Yabushige refuses, but events soon reinforce the Anjin’s belief that their Lord is, in fact, defeated, and the two men sail off together to Osaka.
“Episode 8 is when [Profetas] really realizes his true connection with Anjin, and that’s where his unbalance happens,” Asano said, via his translator Junko Goda, in an interview with IndieWire. “He doesn’t know the rest of the world, in a bigger sense. So he’s kind of stuck thinking, ‘OK, I have this true relationship with Anjin, but I don’t know how to handle it and I don’t know what to do.'”
Traer el anjin sirve como una red de seguridad para Yabushige. El piloto inglés ha visto más del mundo que su compañero japonés, pero también podría hacer una disculpa adecuada presente al Lord Ishido, en caso de que el regente todavía esté molesto con Yabushige. Pronto, la última opción parece la más útil para Yabushige ... hasta que Ishido dispara por su ofrenda.
“By Episode 9, for Yabushige, that was a point where there’s a lot going on, and he’s trying to shift to whatever is coming at him,” Asano said. “The whole process of dressing up Anjin in the nice kimono and instructing him how to bow properly, I felt that Yabushige was going through a lot of complex [emociones]. También es el comienzo de cuando se forma una relación entre Anjin y Yabushige, recién está comenzando. Así que realmente recuerdo esa escena. Fue realmente interesante y divertido navegar todo eso ".
No es coincidencia que este sea el momento en que Yabushige primero se da cuenta del Anjin. Si bien Yabushige ha estado operando durante mucho tiempo en su propio interés, Blackthorn solo comienza a tener en cuenta el número 1 en el Episodio 8. Cuando se ofrece a Yabushige, está abandonando Toranaga. Él le dice a Yabushige que ahora sabe que no pertenece a Japón y, sin embargo, se siente como un extraño para su propia gente. Él "no tiene más remedio que hacer su propio destino", un sentimiento con el que Yabushige puede identificarse, incluso cuando Mariko (Anna Sawai) les enfatiza a ambos que siempre tienen una opción.
"Fundamentalmente, Yabushige debería ser atraído por Anjin porque Anjin lo ayuda a él y cosas así", dijo Asano. "Pero realmente no se da cuenta de eso, porque Yabushige sigue rebotando entre Toranaga e Ishido, tratando de descubrir cómo sobrevivir". Entonces él termina cepillando a Anjin, como, "Ah, extranjero". Pero en realidad, realmente debería darse cuenta de que hay una conexión fundamental con él y Anjin ".
Tadanobu Asano in ‘Shogun’Courtesy of Katie Yu / FX
Asano dijo que él y Cosmo Jarvis recibirían nuevos guiones en diferentes momentos. A veces tenía unas pocas semanas de anticipación, y otras veces solo unos pocos días. Pero siempre estaban listos para contribuir a los viajes de sus personajes, así como a su conexión compartida.
“Oftentimes we would have the opportunity to get [our] ideas written into the scripts,” Asano said. “And even when we were shooting the scenes, I would sometimes improvise and Cosmo just hits the ball right back. Justin [Marcas], our E.P., he would really like that. We definitely had the script as the guide,B but thinking back, perhaps we did deviate — only with the blessing of the E.Ps.”
Asano also relied on his cast and crew to gauge the effectiveness of his own performance. He said he tries not to think about how an audience might react to his choices on set, but those very choices are the ones that tell him whether what he’s doing is working as intended.
“Hubo tiempos de inicio cuando parte de la tripulación podría ser como,‘ ¿Estaba bien? ¿Estás bien? ”, Dijo Asano sobre algunas de sus escenas más grandes y emocionales. "En mi set de experiencia, esos son los momentos que se conectan con la audiencia".
[Editor’s Note: The following portion of the interview contains spoilPara el episodio 10 de "shōgun", el final.]
Because “Shōgun” makes a point of finding meaning not only in people’s lives, but in their deaths as well, Asano was happy to share what he thought might be gleaned from .
“With , I’m not sure if there would be any influence on Toranaga or Ishido — on those above him — but with people like Omi [Yabushige’s nephew and successor, played by Hiroto Kinai] and the other vassals, I think there was meaning to them. Yabushige is a very curious but very straightforward character. Those around him — like Omi and the villagers — would see Yabushige and say, ‘I don’t want to be like that person,’ or, ‘What can I do differently to not turn out like him?’ And with Omi, hopefully he would eventually rise to power and would have learned a lot from Yabushige to be a good leader in his own way.”
Incluso cuando Yabushige pasó su vida cuidándose a sí mismo, su muerte encuentra una manera de ayudar a los demás. Qué personaje y qué actuación.
“Shōgun” is available on Hulu. FX is in the process of , but that news broke after this interview took place.