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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Anyway, I don't know why he seemed so down on playing Kuuga. Are toku roles not seen as good roles for budding actors?

It depends. In most cases a role in a tokusatsu is usually considered a good way for a young actor or idol to get a lot of exposure and make a name for themselves. A lot of these actors embrace that as a part of their past and what got them where they are now (and some will even come back or stay in the genre, like Nao Nagasawa). A few do try to distance themselves from it, though. The actor who played TimeRed, for instance, is really famous for not acknowledging his time on that show, to the point where it's not even on his resume or official profile (although I've heard that may be more of a management mandate). Odagiri hasn't gone that far, but he's always made it pretty clear that he considered doing tokusatsu to be kind of slumming it.