Anne's morning drama Gochisousan (NHK) has been doing very well, maintaining its high ratings since the first week. Anne has always had a very clean and pleasant image attached to her. However, it seems that Anne would turn sour at the mention of the name of a particular actress.
"That is Saki Fukuda, the actress whom Oscar Promotion pushed so hard for at one point. Fukuda was the lead in the movie Sakura no Sono (2008), which was one of Anne's first projects as an actress. Oscar pushed for Fukuda heavily during this time, featuring her in all sorts of dramas and movies. Fukuda thought that it was all thanks to her abilities and reportedly became conceited as she kept showing up late, and even cancelled filming. Anne was a person who gave huge importance to the atmosphere on location and she couldn't stand this attitude shown by Fukuda. She was fuming mad and said that she'll never do a project with Fukuda again." - (production staff)
And with the movie becoming a huge flop, Anne's agency was extremely mad at how her movie debut was one that they would rather forget.
"It's not just Anne, but other major actresses such as Pinko Izumi do not want to star alongside Fukuda. Even Oscar couldn't handle this and shifted from Fukuda to Emi Takei. That was when Fukuda finally realized her standing and changed her attitude, but it was all too late. It has even become difficult to barter her in together with other talents. And because of this experience, the agency must have strictly warned Emi Takei and Ayame Gouriki and taught them the do's and don'ts within the industry.
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