Paulien Cornelisse felt during the filming of the second season of the travel program Tokidoki pushed by the director of the program, Jelle Brandt Corstius, to approach Japanese people. The writer agrees with the program maker afterwards in the director’s choices that made her feel uncomfortable, she says in The Press Stand.
“Once I talk to those people, I notice that they actually like it and I do too,” said Cornelisse about the television program that saw the first episode of the second season on Sunday. “But you have to cross a threshold.”
Cornelisse understands that Brandt Corstius “does his job when he is just not physically pushing her towards people on the street”, but she felt uncomfortable when she had to leave the program maker for Japanese. “Strangely enough, I always agree with him.”
According to Cornelisse, it is not pleasant for the Japanese if a foreigner approaches them, because they feel insecure to speak English. “Then I address them in Japanese and then there is already a kind of relaxation,” the writer describes how the mutual discomfort decreases.
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