Forum - View topicNEWS: Mackenyu to Stop Acting in Japan Next April to Pursue Overseas Filming Opportunities
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Aresef
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It’s not terribly surprising. Knowing how the agency system Japan operates and how much money agencies sap from their actors’ earnings, why wouldn’t he dip out? I presume he’s fluent in English. The challenge, though, is where are roles for him? In Hollywood, it’s difficult to find starring roles open to minorities or written for minorities. That’s what the whole #StarringJohnCho campaign was about. But being a actor for whom English is a second language (again, I’ve never heard his accent), that presents an additional barrier that only the likes of Gerard Depardieu, Sophia Loren and Christoph Waltz have cleared. Rinko Kikuchi only did a handful of English films after Babel, largely because she didn’t get comfortable with English until she was prepping for Pacific Rim.
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Idgal
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He was born and raised in LA, English is his first language. He was also a child actor while living in the US and after finish high school, he focus his career in Japan. I am hoping with his background, he has a more western approach to acting and not the usually cheesy Melodramatic Japanese style. He's not the usually talentless talento that agencies push in movies. i like his acting in Chihayafuru |
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