Word: alejandro
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Rinko Kikuchi's breakthrough performance as Chieko, a deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett at first assumed the 26-year-old Japanese actress really couldn't speak. It's the kind of talent that has propelled Kikuchi from obscurity to an Oscar nomination-the first for a Japanese actress in 49 years. Kikuchi talks to Time's Michiko Toyama about Babel, isolation and her newfound fame...
...What made you want to work with the director Iñárritu? I saw Alejandro's Amores Perros and 21 Grams and loved them. When I learned he was to make a movie in Japan, I thought it would be his first and last here. I spent about a year auditioning and learning sign language. I came to make friends with girls that were deaf...
Rinko Kikuchi's breakthrough performance as a troubled, sexually exploring, deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett didn't know the Japanese actress could actually talk until Kikuchi spoke to her off-camera. Her country's first Oscar-nominated actress in 49 years, Kikuchi talked to TIME's Michiko Toyama...
...distance with her father, the loss of her mother, she is dealing with all these problems and she is always looking for someone to be hugged by, not necessarily sexually, but also for some warmth, her simmering tension, that's the kind of thing I created during the year. Alejandro told me that he would give me the role only a week before shooting began, which if I think about it now, is quite amazing (laughs). Although I was under pressure of possibly not getting the role, but in the end, I was lucky that I had that time...
...fascist, sadistic stepfather named Capitán Vidal (Sergi López). All aspects of production in this adult fable are expertly done, especially the visual and sound effects. Del Toro is one of three Mexican directors with Oscar-nominated films this year (the other two being Alejandro González Iñárritu with “Babel” and Alfonso Cuarón with “Children of Men”). Of the three films, “Pan’s Labyrinth” simultaneously has the most childlike thematic material...