Saito Yuko and Me
先月、たまたま明石家さんまさん司会のバラエティー番組を
見ていたら、久しぶりに、斉藤祐子さんが出ていました。
ちなみに昔は「斉藤ゆう子ちゃん」でしたが…(笑)
Last month, I happened to see a variety television program hosted by Akashiya Sanma, and one of the guests was Saito Yuko, whom we have not seen on TV for some time. Incidentally, she spells her name differently in Japanese now, but it is still the same in English.
そのころ大流行した「アラレちゃん眼鏡」が一番似合っていた
女の子と言えば、みなさん顔を思い出したかな？
恐らくもっとも有名なコマーシャルは、セブンイレブンの
ブリトーのコマーシャルだったと思います。
http://youtu.be/IlnLvuw4X44
You may remember that at the time she was on television, she was regarded as the one female entertainer who looked the best is “arare megane,” or “geeky glasses” (horn-rimmed glasses). I think her most famous commercial was advertising burritos for Seven-Eleven.
1984年当時、彼女のファンだった私はテレビＣＭで共演すること
になったのですが、超売れっ子だった彼女とのスケジュール
調整は難航し、結局、撮影は午前2時スタートでした。
彼女は12本のテレビＣＭに出演していたと記憶しています。
Back in 1984, I was a big fan of hers, so I was very happy when we ended up doing a television commercial together. She was in such high demand that it was very difficult to match our schedules, and we ended up shooting the commercial beginning at two o’clock in the morning. As I recall, she had commercials for twelve different companies running simultaneously.
http://youtu.be/QQtemigz_Uk?t=5m44s
夜中の撮影とは言え、真夏でしたし、スタジオの冷房施設が貧弱で、その音がうるさかったので、本番中は止めなければなりませんでした。その上、ライトの熱もあったので、実際カメラが回っているとき以外、担当のスタッフが扇風機を直接私たち二人に当てていました。
Although the filming was the middle of the night, it was also the middle of the summer, and the air conditioning in the studio was weak and noisy, so it had to be turned off during actual filming. In addition, of course the lights were very hot, so a production assistant was assigned to point an electric fan directly at each of us except when the cameras were actually rolling.
最近はテレビには出ずに、声優さんなどをやっていたようですね。
お元気そうだったので何よりです。
久しぶりに当時のエピソードを懐かしく思い出しました。
I have not seen Yuko-san on television for many years, but apparently she has been working as a voice actress. It was really great to see her again, and it brought back fond memories of when we worked together.