{"id":3581,"date":"2021-08-25T18:27:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1312658"},"modified":"2021-08-25T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:52:08","slug":"neighbours-star-takaya-honda-on-davids-anger-over-nicolettes-disappearance-i-wanted-him-to-go-darker-with-it","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/neighbours-star-takaya-honda-on-davids-anger-over-nicolettes-disappearance-i-wanted-him-to-go-darker-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbours star Takaya Honda on David\u2019s anger over Nicolette\u2019s disappearance: \u201cI wanted him to go darker with it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viewers are being treated to a much angrier David than we have seen before. <\/p>

By Joe Julians\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 25 August 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Since David Tanaka (Takaya Honda) arrived in Neighbours<\/a> in 2016, we have rarely seen him lose his cool. He has generally been the calm voice of reason when things get heated with friends and family, but that has all changed with the latest drama he is being forced to endure.<\/p>\n

Nicolette Stone (Charlotte Chimes) has recently done a runner with his unborn baby after believing she had been betrayed by girlfriend Chloe Brennan (April Rose Pengilly) with David\u2019s brother, Leo (Tim Kano), and David is, quite rightly, furious at those around him, who he believes could have cost him his daughter.<\/p>\n

Takaya has been talking to RadioTimes.com<\/a> about the story and what it has been like for him to play this whole new side of David that we have not seen before.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a great release because the challenge with David is to reason out why he doesn\u2019t explode at people,\u201d Takaya says of his normally quite, placid character. \u201cI\u2019ve always complained because he\u2019s always apologising \u2013 even when he hasn\u2019t done anything wrong \u2013 so it was great for me as Takaya to have scenes where David is the one to go \u2018you know what? No. None of this is OK, I told you all this was going to happen, and you all ignored me.\u2019 It\u2019s fun to have David shove how he feels into all their faces for a change and those scenes, particularly the punch between Leo and David, were fun for Tim and I.\u201d<\/p>\n

David does have a history of being the nice guy, and even when he nearly died after Kyle Canning (Chris Milligan) hit him with the ute, he didn\u2019t even get angry. \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure I actually apologised to Kyle. I shouldn\u2019t have been on the footpath on my bike, I\u2019m really sorry, Kyle. And that was even the second time he was hit by that same ute because Sonya reversed it into the backpackers and took him out. The third time will be dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And while David does not yet know how big a part Paul played in Nicolette\u2019s departure, Takaya finds the turn of events to be a really interesting one for Paul\u2019s character, saying \u201cit highlights that while Paul says he does everything for family, there is a side to him that is particularly evil, and this is one of those cases where he can\u2019t help himself from telling someone what he thinks of them \u2013 just so they know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And David could be at risk of losing his job as we have already seen him lose his cool at the hospital, this time by harassing a colleague for information. Upcoming scenes will see him debate breaking some serious rules to get a lead on where Nicolette has gone. But if things had gone Takaya\u2019s way, we would have seen a desperate David go even darker than we have already seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to push it further to show that with this kind of storyline where it\u2019s your child and you\u2019ve been wanting one for so long, and the difficulties faced by a gay couple to have a child, to get to a matter of weeks until the baby is born and for it to be taken away, I wanted to show the lengths that it could push you to. He doesn\u2019t care about his job at this point, all he cares about is his baby and there is nothing he wouldn\u2019t give up to make sure she is safe. I wanted him to go darker and darker with it and for it to be a turning point for the character \u2013 his moral centre crumbles and it\u2019s how he will get it back that is interesting.\u201d<\/p>

One non-Neighbours related question we had to ask was whether there would be a return of TakTalks<\/a>, a YouTube interview series Takaya ran during the first lockdown in Melbourne. The outlook seems to be positive on that front.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to. It\u2019s hard while filming, especially with this story where we have been filming an insane amount of scenes, nearly double each week, but it is on the cards to return. We\u2019ll see what happens, but it should be back in some form.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visit our dedicated <\/strong>Neighbours<\/strong><\/a> page for all the latest news, interviews and spoilers. If you\u2019re looking for more to watch check out our <\/strong>TV guide<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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