{"rewrite":{"id":"r_cb7c49fba7811dd098b89896","clusterId":"c_5dc5e7c67f680d9cf292a7d7","slug":"ohm-thanapat-recalls-holding-back-until-ryusei-ryo-told-him-to-go-all-out-on-vivant","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Ohm Thanapat Recalls Holding Back Until Ryusei Ryo Told Him To Go All Out On VIVANT","summary":"In the TBS Sunday drama VIVANT, Ohm Thanapat plays Chokki Thepnimit, a Thai businessman who works as a monitor for the organization Tent. The Thai actor and musician said in an interview that he held back in his first scenes with Ryusei Ryo, who plays Kotaro Shinjo, until Ryo told him he could hug him and go all out.","whyItMatters":"VIVANT's Thai-cast monitor role and the pair's improvised closeness are the interview's real subject, which matters more to the show's casting than to its plot mechanics.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eOhm Thanapat said the challenge in Chokki was physical and vocal rather than dramatic: tone of voice, gestures, gaze, and hand movements, because he had to make clear what kind of person Chokki is. He described himself as rougher and more masculine than the role, and said he had often played manly men before, so bringing out a softer, more refined quality was new work for him.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe also recalled watching Masato Sakai deliver a speech of roughly three pages of script in the strategy meeting scene to rescue the separate squad, memorized without a stumble. Sakai is a role model he admires, he said.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Ohm Thanapat's hesitation in his first scenes with Ryusei Ryo points to a working method: VIVANT's Thai lead needed the actor playing Shinjo to name the permission before he'd take it.","twitterPost":"Ohm Thanapat waited for Ryusei Ryo to invite him to go all out. On VIVANT, the scene's intensity was granted, not assumed.","threadsPost":"Ohm Thanapat held back in his first VIVANT scenes with Ryusei Ryo until Ryo told him he could hug him and go all out. That detail says something about how the two built Chokki and Shinjo on set: the permission had to be spoken first.","newsletterBlurb":"Ohm Thanapat, who plays the Tent monitor Chokki Thepnimit in VIVANT, spoke about his first Japanese drama shoot. He said he held back early on with Ryusei Ryo before Ryo told him to go all out, and he recalled Masato Sakai memorizing a roughly three-page speech for the squad rescue scene.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157231\",\"title\":\"Chokki in \\\"VIVANT\\\" - \\\"Shin-chan\\\"'s Words Gave Him Confidence; No Hesitation in Scenes with Ryusei Ryo: \\\"A Truly Lovable Person\\\"\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4827,"outputTokens":614,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791188064,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T08:09:49.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T08:13:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T08:13:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_5dc5e7c67f680d9cf292a7d7","canonicalTitle":"「VIVANT」チョッキー役、“新ちゃん”の言葉が自信に　竜星涼とのシーンは遠慮なし「とても愛すべき人」","representativeArticleId":"a_fc071fca705c1ed7b9ae8023","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"VIVANT\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Ohm Thanapat\",\"Ryusei Ryo\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-04T03:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-04T03:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T08:13:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Cinema Today","url":"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157231","title":"「VIVANT」チョッキー役、“新ちゃん”の言葉が自信に　竜星涼とのシーンは遠慮なし「とても愛すべき人」"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["VIVANT"],"studios":[],"people":["Ohm Thanapat","Ryusei Ryo"],"type":"news","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}