Did Ansel Elgort Learn Japanese for His Role in HBO Max’s ‘Tokyo Vice’?

“The way you put stress on words in English is different in Japanese, so it was clearly going to take a lot of work,” the Baby Driver actor said. But it wasn’t enough for Ansel Elgort — who also acts as one of the show’s executive producers — to just learn his Japanese lines, the actor even suggested that they try shooting some scenes fully in Japanese.

Eventually, Ansel was able to improvise when conversing in Japanese. In response, J.T. Rogers said, “let’s do it both ways.”