Actor Dai Watanabe appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) on May Getsuku. He talked about the unexpected words his father, actor Ken Watanabe, said to him and the latest news about his family.
Towards the end of junior high school, he saw a Japanese movie that his father starred in and found movies interesting, but at the time he wanted to become a baseball player. However, he gave up on the path to becoming a baseball player because "there are always better players, and the difference in ability was so clear to see."
The reason for his debut was, "I was asked to play my father as a boy, and he asked me if I wanted to try it, so I did." However, when he grew up, his father suddenly told him, "I didn't really think you were interested in becoming an actor." He said, "What are you talking about? I had graduated from university and was working hard (as an actor) without even getting a job. I thought to myself, 'But you asked me when I was 17.'"
My father said, "I think she's probably in Nagano, but I really don't know." When Dai went to Kyoto for work, he told me, "She was there the day before yesterday. But she's already gone." His younger sister, actress Anne, moved to France three years ago. I found out she was going to France a few months ago, and wondered when she was going, but she was already gone. I didn't know when she would come back, but a staff member from her work said, "I'll be with you (Ann) on the next shoot," so I was like, "Well, she's coming back. All of my family members often hear about the latest happenings from their coworkers."
I called out to my father and sister, asking them to contact me once in a while.
