Moldova.ORG -- Japanese actor Ken Watanabe was astonished when he was offered the lead role in Clint Eastwood’s latest film.
That’s because he assumed the major parts in the Hollywood epic would be filled with US actors.

As Contactmusic notes, when “The Last Samurai” actor heard Eastwood was looking for actors for “Letters From Iwo Jima”, he assumed the only part he would get would be a supporting character in the film.

"I thought, 'I'll have to ring my agent to get a role as a Japanese officer or something", remembers the Japanese actor.

But he was happy when he found out the film was in fact told entirely from the perspective of the Japanese army in World War II. The movie is up for Best Film at this year's Oscar ceremony and is a companion piece to Eastwood's “Flags Of Our Fathers”.



Publication date: 05 February 2007   

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