Irino Miyu: Audition & Recording for Spirited Away
(To ppl who are unfamiliar with how high school works in Japan: What the host meant was that the classes barely interact with each other, so it must have been quite a scary situation for first-year high schooler Miyu to be in with uperclassmen 😅)
Btw, the core themes in the musical The Prayers of Elcos (or „The Wishes of Elcos“) are individual creativity and being true to yourself. It's quite interesting that little Miyu's first exposure to the performing arts was this musical and that it ultimately led him to where he is now. Because Miyu's been always living by these principles as an actor and artist.😊
Miyu said in an interview for the Meiji University where he graduated (translated here), getting a higher education has been always a priority in his family. So he never considered what he was doing as a child actor a job or even a possible career path until he entered the second year at the University. It was more like a hobby, or club activity, that he did outside of school. But he always enjoyed acting and that's why he was able to continue it for so long until he finally decided to pursue it professionally.
More trivia related to his parents: (Because Miyu mentioned his parents, I thought I could include some here.🥰)
The reason Miyu first traveled to the United Kingdom with his mother was related to the stage production of A Christmas Carol, in which he appeared as a child.
According to Miyu, when he was in elementary school and performing in A Christmas Carol, his mother wanted him to experience the original culture behind the production. As a result, she took him and some fellow child actors to England. During that trip, they watched theater performances in Bristol rather than London.
Miyu has said that the experience left a strong impression on him. It later contributed to his affection for the United Kingdom, leading him to visit the country again on personal trips and during his language-study stay in 2017.
When Miyu had a hard time doing a laughing voice, his mother would accompany him to the recording studio and tickle him from behind.😂
Also, not really related to his acting career though, Miyu mentioned in his recent live concert tour Humor is Human, that he usually receives the live and promo goods. He always gives the bromides to his parents because he doesn't know what to do with them. And his father has Miyu's pictures, from his childhood on, lined up in his room.🥹
