Ice Age Generation AD, in the Corner of the TV. #9 'LA Location Shoot, the Major Leaguer Who Actually Wanted to Be an AD'

I often went on
overseas location shoots, too.

Guam.

Hong Kong.

Los Angeles.

When I was a college student,
I loved going abroad.

To go snowboarding,
I went to Switzerland, Canada,
and New Zealand as well.

Unfamiliar scenery.

Unfamiliar scents.

I loved that feeling of,
'Ah, I've really come to a foreign country,'
the moment I stepped out of the airport.

But,
after becoming an AD,
I came to hate going abroad.

The reason is simple.

Even overseas,
it's just work all the time.

Location shoots from the morning.

Traveling.

Setting up.

There's almost no time to sleep.

The hotel was
just a place to take a shower
and pass out.

I think I was probably
getting hit even when I was abroad.

But I don't remember the details anymore.

Maybe I had become like a punch-drunk fighter.

Even in those times,
sometimes,
the big-name comedians were kind.

"Let the AD take a break, too."

With those words,
there were times I actually got a day off.

In Los Angeles,
we did a location shoot with a Japanese Major Leaguer.

For me, a former baseball boy,
a Major Leaguer was someone I admired.

The person I had been watching on TV,
was right in front of me.

And what's more,
he was incredibly huge.

His shoulder width alone,
seemed wider than my entire life.

After the shoot,
when we were all eating dinner.

That Major Leaguer,
for some reason, started talking to us ADs.

"Is being an AD tough?"

"What kind of work do you do?"

He was strangely curious.

And then he said with a laugh,

"I actually,
instead of baseball,
wanted to work in television."

Furthermore,

"I want to be an AD."

he also said.

It was strange.

Here I was,
thinking a Major Leaguer was
the ultimate object of my admiration.

They are
interested in being an AD.

People
might feel a little envious of
a life they don't have.

Of course,
if that Major Leaguer
actually became an AD,
I think they'd quit in three days.

No,
I feel like they'd snap by the time they had to get Subway for 20 people.

But,
for some reason, I was happy.

It was a night in Los Angeles.

From the window of the car heading back to the hotel,
I could see palm trees.

Even though I was in a place with scenery like this,
I was sleepy the whole time.

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