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When the talk turned to the most memorable hug in the actors\u0026#39; lives and neither Isomura nor Suezawa could produce much, the director called for an etude on the spot, and the two leads played an improvised embrace at the end of the event.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuezawa had already drawn the biggest reaction of the day with a line from the Taiwan Kaohsiung Film Festival stop on the 24th, where he told the audience he loved them. He also reported that his mother watched the film five times and cried each time.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Keisuke Yoshida turned a press event into a scene from mentor. The improvised hug came from the director, not the actors, which says more about how the film's motif was built than any speech could.","twitterPost":"The mentor hug on stage was Keisuke Yoshida's idea, not the actors'. He directed the moment the film's motif was built on.","threadsPost":"The mentor stage greeting hug was improvised on Keisuke Yoshida's call, not scripted by Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa. The director who built the film's hug motif treated the press event the same way he treats a scene: call it, then let the actors carry it.","newsletterBlurb":"Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa appeared at a Tokyo stage greeting for mentor on the 29th, with director Keisuke Yoshida. When the hug motif came up and the actors had little to say, Yoshida called for an improvised embrace and got one. 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