Will Sharpe

Yeah, I mean, that was a lot of fun.

I mean, I loved the film, you know, Withnail and I growing up and the way that kind of, I suppose, was hilarious, but also had like an emotional aspect.

I think I watched it at quite a formative age around the time, you know, I remember like watching Withnail and I, watching Harold and Maud and being there, you know, Hal Ashby's films and all those kinds of movies that seem to blend different feelings and tones.

And so to work with him similarly was like a...

I mean, very urban compared to, like, suburban Surrey where we moved to in England.

I mean, I remember, like, the sound of the cicadas in the summer and...

I don't know.

A lot of it is quite aural for me, like the sound of train stations in Tokyo or like near my grandma's house who just turned 100 last week.

You know, there's like a chime that goes off at kind of 5 p.m.

every evening.

And a lot of it, weirdly, I've not had this thought before.

Maybe it's because I'm doing a radio show.

So my brain is in like listening mode.

Sound is so important.

But it does feel like a lot of it is quite aural.

Yeah, aural.

But there's definitely like, I'd often talk about like a kind of a layer of nostalgia that I feel like is unavailable to me in England, where I can sort of reminisce up to a point, but there's like a sort of plane of memory or feeling or something that is that is left in Japan and I would only get that.

when I've gone back to Japan.

And it's a weird thing where I think people who have lived in different countries or who are mixed race, you do sometimes end up with this feeling that you're not really sure where your home is or how to identify yourself.

And so, you know, if I go back to Japan, I can speak the language, but kind of in a very wobbly way where I sound a bit like a 10 year old still.