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TIL Mana Ashida, the Japanese young girl who played young Mako Mori in the 2013 film Pacific Rim, was allowed by director Guillermo del Toro to call him "Totoro-san" after the character in the animated film "My Neighbour Totoro", due to her being unable to pronounce his surname.

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