>>3592494>-Did you have any interest in Eva since you became a voice actor?Uchiyama: I always thought about how I'd like to voice a character in Eva, but not many new characters showed up in the previous Rebuild movies.
Plus when taking my gender and age into account, I thought the chance I'd get offered a role was next to zero.
>-In a short amount of lines, your character is entrusted with an important scene that conveys his relationship with his parents. Did you have any particular thoughts or any conversation with the director and staff about your character in the studio?Uchiyama: I spent most of my time in the recording studio trying out different ways to voice my lines. I hadn't read the entirety of the script yet, so I wasn't really thinking about the importance of my character and their scenes in the film at that point.
I first just tried performing my lines using my normal voice, and from there the director and staff gave their own suggestions with each take until recording was completed. Actually, right before it was my turn to record, I ended up talking a bit with Miyuki Sawashiro-san (Sakura's Voice Actor) who had just finished recording her own lines. She warned me the staff would ask for a lot of takes before anything gets OK'd. But I've always been the type to be fine with re-recording things to improve my performance so I wasn't super worried.
>-Were there any other memorable moments you had while working on the film?Uchiyama: In the movie, my character wears a tag with his handwritten name on it. The handwriting used there was actually done by me. Just like with recording, I had to write his name a bunch of different ways before one could be chosen.
I think it took even more time than when I was voicing my lines!
I tried all different styles where the thickness of the lines and calligraphy were completely different.
To think there were so many countless ways to write a name, I was surprised just how tough the designers have it!
