For me, action is not so special, just a part of acting. Then I started training for singing, dancing, sword fighting or horseback riding or something and just continued training. So when I was 9 or 10 years old, I thought, if I can continue acting in the future, I'd love to do everything by myself. Then I saw a lot of great movies from Hollywood, Europe, and then I saw a lot of great actors doing own stunts or singing, dancing. I started as a child actor when I was 5 years old. Do you feel like you have learned about how to be characters in a different way over the years? What have you taken from that experience of being in so many of these sorts of action movies? You've done so many action movies over the years. RASCOE: You're 61 years old, and the character that you play in this movie is called The Elder. You never look - like, I look so tough, like, I could beat everybody up. RASCOE: So you don't look at yourself and go, oh, man, I look so cool with that sword. SANADA: I just do my job into the character. So just be a character and then - script has a power, editor has a power to make my character cooler or not cool, you know? SANADA: I - trying to be cool, but I just think about the character and situation with emotion. Is that just me, or do you ever do that? (Laughter). Do you ever, like, pose with the sword and look at yourself in the mirror or see yourself onscreen and go, like, I look so cool? 'Cause I would, like, want to get pictures of myself. Seeing you in action, I was like, this guy is so cool. RASCOE: So I have to say, like, you in "Bullet Train," you were, like, one of the coolest characters. So it's a natural thing, and then everybody happy about that. Isaka, loves this adaptation and - yeah, a good chance to introduce Japanese novel to the world, so we needed the international cast. SANADA: I thought it's a great adaptation for the international cast. Did you have any reservations about that? There are some people who were concerned that most of the characters were changed to be non-Japanese. It's a Japanese book - and that they adapted it and made it more kind of international. Mystery, thriller, action, comedy, drama, I think. SANADA: This movie based on the novel from Japanese author Kotaro Isaka. If you only had, like, a couple of sentences to describe this film, like, what would you say it's about? RASCOE: So this film is a little bit complicated. You know, do seriously, but audience can laugh, like situation comedy, like - so I really enjoyed that. How hard was it not to laugh? Because Brad Pitt was very funny, very charming, but your character is super serious. And then when I saw the movie, people laughing at our, you know, improvisation, I felt OK. So every take - so fresh and interesting and thrilled for me. Then I have to react and then return some words. What coming next? Sometimes, hard to - don't laugh. HIROYUKI SANADA: I was so scared, so I had to listen carefully. His co-star Brad Pitt - you might have heard of him - would add some lines to a scene every now and then, sometimes adding jokes to a serious scene. The Japanese star has a long acting career and is best-known for his roles in action movies like "The Last Samurai," "Mortal Kombat" and "Rush Hour 3." But for "Bullet Train," he had to learn a new skill - improv. Hiroyuki Sanada plays one of these passengers, The Elder, who's there to get revenge on a long-time personal enemy. But little does he know that a collection of assassins are riding the same train, all with their own mysterious reasons. "Bullet Train," a new action-comedy film, features a man on a mission to retrieve a suitcase from a high-speed train in Japan.
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