Hiroki Hasegawa’s “drinking habit” and his “true intention,” which he was seen in private.

The first episode of the TBS Sunday drama series “Antihero,” starring actor Hiroki Hasegawa (47), was broadcast on December 14.

It is an original work starring a lawyer who obtains an acquittal in a criminal trial in Japan, where the conviction rate is said to be 99.9%, even though there is complete evidence that he is a suspect. The storyline and the personalities of the characters were not revealed until the start of the broadcast, and the show got off to a good start with an average household rating of 11.5% (according to Video Research, Kanto region, hereafter the same) for the first episode.

On the 11th, the drama’s co-stars Takumi Kitamura (26) and Mayu Hotta (26) were scheduled to appear together on the station’s morning information program “The Time,” but even though they were scheduled to appear at the time, Hasegawa’s appearance was not scheduled. However, when Hasegawa was not there at the scheduled time, Kitamura said , “You are late. Hiroki is late,” Kitamura explained with a laugh.

Ten minutes later, Hasegawa finally appeared, and the station’s announcer, Shinichiro Azumi (50), who served as MC, followed up by saying, “He must have been filming late,” and “He’s busy. When asked about his schedule for the previous day ( …… if you don’t mind), Hasegawa replied flatly, ” Yesterday, we finished filming at 16:30 in the evening. In response, Azumi calmly followed up with, “I get sleepy in the spring,” she said.

Although it was not revealed in the program, Hasegawa himself said that the reason for his tardiness was that he was so nervous about the live broadcast that he could not sleep. However, it is not impossible that he might have gone out for a drink after filming finished early and overslept. In fact, many big-name celebrities have revealed Hasegawa’s drinking mistakes in the past,” said a TBS insider.

On the 7th of this month, Hasegawa appeared on the station’s talk variety show “Sunday no Hatsuimimi Gakko” as part of the program’s promotion. During the program, Haruka Ayase (39), who stars in NHK’s historical drama “Yae no Sakura” (Yae’s Sakura, 2001) and with whom Hasegawa has had a close friendship since their collaboration, appeared in a VTR. She revealed that “I get e-mails the next day reminding me that I drank too much (when we drink together),” but this was not all.

June 3, 2010 On June 3, 2010, he appeared on “A-Studio+,” a talk variety show on the same station. During the interview, Lily Franky (60), a close friend of Mr. Hasegawa’s, revealed that at a birthday party for Masaharu Fukuyama (55) held at the home of lyricist Yasushi Akimoto (65), Mr. Fukuyama had made the terrible mistake of falling asleep only 10 minutes before midnight, the time when his birthday was to begin.

Mr. Hasegawa laughed and said, “I got carried away and had a lot of alcohol. Later, on a radio show where he is a personality, Fukuyama was asked about this by a listener: “Hiro-chan is cute. He’s not a Kirin. He was a Kirin in the drama “Kirin ga Kuru” (The Kirin is Coming),” which made the listeners laugh and revealed that Hasegawa is a much-loved character.

(Entertainment reporter) To begin with, Hasegawa is a drinker to the extent that he himself has publicly stated that he often visits bars by himself. In 2003, before he began filming “Shin Godzilla,” a movie in which he starred that was released the following year, he was spotted at a hidden bar in the center of Tokyo that was frequented by celebrities and where he himself was a regular customer.

When I saw him, Mr. Hasegawa was already quite drunk. Then one of the regular customers asked Mr. Hasegawa how his relationship with Kyoka Suzuki was going. Mr. Hasegawa thought for a while and answered with a serious gaze only, ‘She is …… an important person.

At that time, there were reports of a breakup between Mr. Hasegawa and Mr. Suzuki, which may be why his “true feelings” leaked out. However, I heard that he was still drunk and left his precious script of “Shin Godzilla” at the restaurant.

As he said at the time, Hasegawa and Suzuki have not entered into a marriage, but have been living together as if they were in a “de facto marriage” as reported by the media. And last year, when Suzuki was battling an illness after withdrawing from a drama series in which he starred, he was reportedly seen going to the apartment every day. It seems that he is still an “important person” to her.

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