It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.
I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.
It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.
When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.
I wanted to go overseas and act. I wanted to be an actor in an industry that isn't necessarily the most inclusive for anybody different.
A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
