Chu chu chu*; or, intimate scene tips from the Kiseki cast
(Note: See reblogs for another pairing that used the same strategy and for super helpful info from @nibupei; also this post has been edited to replace the screenshots with slightly better versions)
I don't usually watch a lot of BL-related stuff on youtube, but I've still got a bad case of Kiseki brainrot and there's a bonkers amount of Kiseki-related material on there and a remarkably high proportion of it has English subs, so I've been perusing it. I saw something I found really interesting in one interview that I thought was worth sharing here, particularly since I'm sure there are others who, like me in most instances, don't typically look for BL info there. According to the title, the interview is related to a photobook, I assume one made for/about the series. You can find it here if you want to check it out for yourself. The part I talk about below starts around the 7:44 mark. A big thank you to the fan who subbed this for the rest of us, who as you can see from the watermark goes by abbyloveslove.
The thing that caught my attention was about Nat Chen's and Louis Chiang's process for intimate scenes. I'm always a total nerd about this kind of information, especially with regard to Taiwanese BL folks since people in the industry there have developed such a strong tradition of effective practices. The gist is this: prior to filming scenes involving kissing, you have to do blocking, check lighting, and so forth, so you have to get in position as if you were kissing your scene partner. But it's not actually necessary to kiss them and, in Louis's view at least, it would be counterproductive to do it at that point. So Louis and Nat came up with a substitute action. They'd do sort of mimed smooches, but with their own special a Taiwan-specific sound effect.
It's a bit hard to tell who's speaking here, what with the image quality. So I'll specify who's talking when. Speaking of which, these are just screenshots of a rather blurry video so apologies for any and all aesthetic shortcomings.
So, first Nat's speaking...
then Louis...
(he does a little shimmy here that's hard to capture in a still image)
and Nat again.
And then Louis sums it up.
After watching this I noticed that in one of the behind-the-scenes bits that are strung together into one long thing on Viki, you can actually hear someone going "chuchuchu." It's hard to tell who's speaking because of the angle and some staff wearing masks but I think it might actually be their director in that instance.
So there's your intimate scene nerd moment for today. Chu chu chu.
*Per @nibupei in the reblogs, this should actually be Romanized as "jiū." I recommend checking out their response in full. Just putting this here because some folks are still interacting with the original post who might find their notes illuminating.
my first ever stream art
streaming was so stressfully fun, i was so scared shit wouldnt work out but im so happy it did, i will 100% do this more often!!
anyways enjoy the ulala art!
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Pregnant! reader play fighting with gojo (one-sided bc he cannot fathom being even a little rough w you) and he’s “🤨🤨siddown u have a baby in you” and then ends up just pinning them down by the wrists (and probably also trapping them on their back like an overturned turtle again 😭)
ahahaha😭 omg yes you’ll be like poking his side several times just because you want to mess with him—
“hiya! hiya!”
“don’t move around too much! you’re shaking the baby!”
“lalala~ baby’s fine, and now is the perfect time to attack you for all you have done to me~”
but gojo can’t even retaliate back so when it gets too much, he resorts to pinning your wrist above your head—gets on top of you and for a while you are just there, laying on your back, and staring at each other…
“let go of meee,” you whine, pouting, but somehow he has this unusually serious expression. he stares at your face under him, before his line of sight goes down to your now supple breasts—surely full of milk, yum—he thought, and then rounded belly, which houses his unborn child.
“you….” he actually gulps. you look so cute, so tasty being pinned down like this. if it were up to him, he’ll just flip you over and ravage you senseless. but your doe eyes look up to him with such innocence, just pleading at him to let you go.
and in the end, with great difficulty, he swallows it, and lets you go.
“huh? w-wait satoru! i can’t get up!”
“hmph that’s your punishment. when you have atoned, i’ll help you.”