Interview with James Marsters
As promised, my source has translated the interview with James Marsters (Piccolo) from the August issue of Jump Square magazine. Give it a read!
What is the difference between the original and the live-action movie ?
JM: Definitely the story of this movie is different from the original. But it’s a necessary change because we need to condense the long story of the original for a movie. For example, some characters in the original don’t appear in the movie. And we try to give it a more gritty and graphic (realistic) feeling.
Though there are differences between the two, I think it is all right if the core part of Dragonball remains. I let my son watch the anime’s Dragonball, DBZ and DBGT since he was eight years old. At first, I thought it was too violent, but I realized this is the best show for training to become a true man. True men need not to flaunt themselves. Their calm, gentle and modest but when it comes to the crunch they don’t hesitate to kill the enemy, and I think that’s what Goku is.
Goku is a real man. I know my son received such a message and applied it to his own life. My son doesn’t use violence to others, but he isn’t afraid of his own anger. I think it’s an important thing.
How many hours does it take to apply the make-up?
JM: It takes about four hours. Luckily, my make-up artist is very chatty, we have a lot of chat during the make up.
Please tell us the most remarkable scene in the movie, especially action scenes!
JM: It is the last battle after all! I like playing the battle scene. When I worked for a TV show for seven years, every Friday I fought till sun rise, I felt I would never have such a good time again until now. In addition, I have never gotten terribly hurt (laugh).
Do you talk with other co-stars as well?
JM: When I have a problem, I have a talk with Justin [Chatwin]. At first, we worried about the costumes. We thought it should reflect the spirit of the original, we persisted this thought to the producers. We didn’t want to make our characters beautiful and safe. I talked with Justin, and he agreed with me. So did the director.
What do you care about in acting for this movie?
JM: That’s a good question. Speaking of Piccolo, one word comes into my mind, it’s “loneliness”. Piccolo is always floating in the air in the beautiful landscape, but he never even admires the landscape, he is only thinking or musing and staring at his feet. I think that is a characteristic of piccolo more than anything else. Maybe it must be a characteristic for revenge. He hates himself and blames the people who has trapped him. His desire to kill not only them but their family, furthermore to destroy the city and the planet they live and protect. To get revenge is everything to him. Everything.
How was shooting in Durango?
JM: The desert of Durango is very cold at night (laugh). I was luckily wearing armor, but Goku was freezing at the beginning of shooting. The local people are very kind and get along with us. Besides they love to party very much! If I didn’t have work, I would be willing to join them. They are drinking and singing songs until 4:30 a.m. But I need to sleep for the shooting the next day, after all so I changed the hotel to get away from the partying people.
Finally, please give us a message to our readers in Japan.
JM: Japan is beautiful. Thank you for giving Dragonball to us! It’s an important show to us all and I want you to watch it, especially the young people. I thank the show for a lot of good times with my son. I’ll do my best to meet the high expectations the fans have.
Also, Dragonballfilm posted up a small interview with Texas Battle (Carey Fuller) about his role in the movie. Check it out here.
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@A-CITY: they can VERY EASILY find another way to make goku turn ssj without having krillin,,,
personally i think that would only be the only reason why krillin could be needed in the movies, but he´s not even needed for that. i like krillin in the anime, but the movies last 2 hours, id rather not have krillin, tenshinhan, etc, and have more screen time to develop the characters of goku, picolo, vegeta, gohan, freeza, bulma
@nanjirou: Yeah and it seems Marsters made that very clear. Although he gave no specific details to who wasn’t going to be in the film, but don’t be stupid people, Krillin isn’t in it. So that question doesn’t need to be asked anymore
@http://www.myspace.com/coreywilson10: That’s old news man lol, it’s been confirmed that there’s power-ups like in the show, ki blasts, flying, and Goku’s special technique.
@nanjirou: yeah i agree somewhat but it would be cool if the characters mentioned would at least have a cameo of some sort during the battles
@Tommy: I’m not surprised.
that got me pumped!!!!l-visualizing in my head piccolo wanting revenge floating high above the beautiful lanscape yet looking so alone in the world and james conveying that feeling…-he will save this if noone else.-
hey adam lets get some voice clips of him as piccolo lets a pic someday.
-ive been real strict on this but james made me excited now.
@J: Yeah, I was really hoping for it. I just posted that so everyone isn’t heartbroken when they see the movie, and there is no trailer, lol. Adam idk if you want to make a post about that, but it’s not that big of a deal. Just letting people know.
hey adam this is random and not that it matters but i noticed your site ussually gets a bit more news comments from people than jps
but your forums dead and his is insanely active, i just thought it was weird. its not a competition but maybe if you did somthing like jp does and said discuss on the forums after a news blog the forums would be more active
just a suggestion
@heason: You’re absolutely right, but I think JP is spamming when he does that. If you want it though, I’ll do it.
And for the record, we are the most popular Dragonball blog on the Internet (not bragging, well I guess I am). JP just has more diehard fans. People who aren’t necessarily fans visit this site, but we also have diehard fans as well.
And “insanely active” is a bit of an overstatement. Saiyan Island usually has 100 members online at a time, but very little live-action discussion. I’m still a mod there, though.
@nanjirou:
Cool. That makes total sense. good shit my nig. \
I wonder he’ll go SSJ now
its makes me concerned that the producers needed the acters to tell them how to get the outifts rite
@Adam:
I heard you say before that there is no competition between you and JP…but comon, who are you kidding?
I truely think this will be the highest grossing film worldwide! It was number one in the US, Mexico, UK, and Japan! Its gonna be awesome! I cant wait to see the Kamehameha! And the eternal dragon! Imtaking everyone i know to watch and support it
@Jnas: Both sites offer different things. I don’t mind it.
Adam do you agree with me or no? give me some feedback!
@josh stroud: I don’t know about that.
@A-CITY: i don´t think he will, he´ll barely know he is a saiyan in this one. i hope they save the ssj for the 3rd, as it should be done. maybe vegeta can mention the legend of the ssj in the second, that would be cool too
@josh stroud: i truly hope you are right but thats a nearly impossible dream,,, anyway, if something can pull it off, it should be dragonball
i suppose insanely inactive was an over staetment i just found it odd how your right this site seems more popular yet had less forum activity do whatever you want man, its your site
the forums are less important than the amount of people that see the blogs anyway, the news is the most important
Wonder if Piccolo will have a joker like craze and promotion like the joker for TDK after all he is a villain 100x more powerful then joker. Will masters Have a real powerful presence? Hopefully his dialog will be well written, to pull off a whole new level of villain to the cinema.
*hate to bring tdk into this just curious will
have major hype or no*
Awesome keeps getting better and better, as for krillin(I heard some complaints) isn’t it possible they will add him in the sequel along with tien.
Yay! Mr. Marsters! W00t! I know he’s going to be the best out of the whole movie! *mostly likely saying this because she’s a Piccolo Fan.*
@josh stroud: Ain’t gonna happen. Too many people think that either DB is lame, or many who do love it hate the movie.
have some questions for the rest of YOU HARD CORE FANS THAT MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER FOR ME?
1.-IS OOZARU APE IN THE MOVIE?
2.DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW YAMCHA GETS SCARS FROM DB-DBZ????
3.WHY DONT THEY RELEASE DESTROY ALL SAIYANS OVER IN AMERICA??-IF NOT WHERE CAN I BUY IT!!!
4. WHY DID GOKU NEVER MEET BARDOK TRAINING IN HEAVEN??
5.HOW COME GOKU JR. LIVES WITH PAN???-WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS PARENTS??
6.WHEN ARE WE GETTING THAT AWESOME MMO GAME DRAGON BALL ONLINE?
HERES SOME QUESTIONS I NEED ANSWERS FOR OR ATLEAST COMMENT??
1. ARE THERE GOING 2 BE OOZARU APES IN THE MOVIE?
2.WHY HAVENT THEY RELEASED THE ERADICATE ALL SAIYANS MOVIE IN THE U.S????????????-WHERE CAN I BUY IT?!!
3.HOW DID YAMCHA GET THE SCARS HE HAS IN DBZ???
4.WHO WAS TURLES?-A CLONE,A BROTHER OF GOKUS???
5.WHY DIDNT GOKU EVER MEET BARDOK TRAINING IN HEAVEN???
6.HOW COME ALL THE BAD GUY SCIENTISTS HAVE HANDLEBAR MUSTACHES????-LOL!!!-AND THE SAME MULLETS?
7.WHEN THE HELL ARE GOING TO GET THE AWESOME MMO GAME DRAGON BALL ONLINE OVER IN THE US-THAT GAME WOULD MAKE DBZ BURST EAT SHIT!!!!!!-ITS FULL CUSTOMIZABLE!!!!!!
8.I SAW THE SUPER SAIYAN FIVE PIC THATS ALL OVER THE NET AS A POSTER IN JAPAN IN A SUBWAY!!!!!-BUT IT DIDNT SAY DBZ IT WAS JAPANESE-ITS GOTTA BE FROM SOMETHING???????-MAYBE TENCHI OR SOMETHING?????
@ROBERT G: Shutup dude.
@ROBERT G:
1. We can only speculate.
2. Collect the Dragonballs ‘n wish for it.
3. We can only speculate.
4. A saiyan who looks like Kakarot, not a clone and not a relation.
5. We can only speculate. maybe they just couldn’t find eachother!
6. The 80’s happened to them.
7. We can only speculate
8. No such thing.
POYCE!
ROBERT G : I AM ANSWERING YOU THE SAME WAY ADAM DID ME IN THE LAST UPDATES ONE WORD… FORUMS!
@ Savonny: POYCE? lol
i wonder how goku will finish off piccolo in the final fight. like king piccolo?
Click my blue name from my comment before
@ROBERT G: Yes! Thats the #1 question I want to know too.
Will there be Oozaru????
i might be wrong, but i think i heard it from somewhere that there might be the oozaru in the movie…. im not 100% sure on that.
i don´t think there will be,,, actually i wouldnt mind if they left oozaru out of the movies, i know its a big change… but if they include oozaru, chances are they are going to screw it up, i would think it would be very expensive to do it right, just a guess
@chrisH:
hes got no tail though, maybe in a flashback
I don’t care if it’s a flashback or if it’s only for 30 seconds….
The better show Oozaru!! Oozaru is a big part of the Dragoball world. It can be done
What the heck is Oozaru?
Oozaru is the giant monkey the saiyans turn into dudeski.
@http://www.myspace.com/coreywilson10: its not a big part in the piccolo saga, actually it has no part at all, so its very unlikely that they will show it. if they do, i hope its only in the second movie, where it´s actually important
mainly i don´t want it in the first one because im not sure how non fans would take it, if its in the second one, by then the entire world will be fans of dragonball
tommy blow it out your ass!!!!-future trunks how dare you be on this site or take that screen name!!!!!!!!!!!-savonny#8 is true i saw it!!!-so nobody else knows why we dont ge the lost movie here or why we dont get the awesome db online game………..that sucks
@FutureTrunks: Saiyans need a full moon to turn into an Ozaaru (Great Ape).
@Robert G
A Dragon Ball MMO
, would be awsome! or like a MMORPG! where u can create a hero or somthin and gain lvls!!! kinda like WoW! why dint i think of it before!!!!
if its dragonball goku needs to have a tail
i heard that there will def b an oozaru..but itll b a lot smaller than originally.. so if this is true, then how small?? hopefully they wont make it look ridiculous and corny.. =(
@Fo Shizz
dragonball online, it’s in development process (maybe a relase next year in Korea and Japan)
Smithsfeild: well Goku didn’t have a tail as an adult
but maybe with special effects 
The way Marsters described Piccolo is spot on is just FANTABULOUS
Oh God Ma the trailer and footag be SUPER AWESOME
Stop taking my fucking comments off here u Cock suckers
i still have a few things 2 wirk out with fuck head kaypain and brucie and i believe the other fuckhead is named mike something
@TruFan: Howcome you never talk about Dragonball???? All you talk about is F this and F that!! Kaypain is cool why you dissing him? I don’t think it’s a good ideal to make fun of Kaypain. Kaypain is pretty strong trufan!! I heard his power level is 9000.
those who oppose the movie, f*ck you all!! this is a great effort. like it or not, it still going to be awesome. the ones who live in their mom’s house under the basement who think of oozaru and krillin and whatever nonsense you want to be in the movie, SHUT UP losers! whatever the film will be, its going to be great.