By Keisuke Wakabayashi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer 12:15 JST, July 12, 2024 Hiroe Igeta has been active, showing her smile on TV dramas, variety shows, commercials and fashion magazines. Hardly a day goes by without everyone seeing her. The actor and model became a household name by appearing in “Oshare-Clip,” a talk and variety show on the Nippon TV network that airs at 10 a.
m. on Sundays. Since 2021, Igeta has been the program’s co-emcee together with actor Ikusaburo Yamazaki.
Igeta and Yamazaki uncover little known aspects of each guest’s personality and views on life. The two also elicit never-seen-before expressions from guests and let them talk about surprising episodes in their lives. Variety shows are ubiquitous on TV.
So, then, what is the appeal of “Oshare-Clip”? “We never interrupt guests when they’re speaking,” Igeta said. “We’ll wait until they finish. We won’t seek too much [excitement or laughter], and we take enough time for the shoot, so the guests can think about what words to use to describe their lives and their real selves on the spot.
Our show has such a thorough and careful approach.” “There are many emcees who can aggressively make the guests talk and talk, but the significance of having Iku-san [Yamazaki] and me as emcees, who are not specialists in the role, is to keep it casual and let the guests speak about really nice stories. That’s why I try to focus on becoming the best listener I can be,” she said.
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