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Sep 17, 2024 · After seeing Sanada perform in Yukio Ninagawa’s Japanese-language production of “Hamlet,” British actor Nigel Hawthorne suggested he play the Fool in a Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of “King Lear.”
Mar 4, 2024 · The actor explains why the 'producer' title is as powerful to him as the 'shōgun' title is to Toranaga.
- Kat Moon
Feb 27, 2024 · Sanada first boarded Shogun as the star, but quickly became a producer as well. It wasn’t an empty title; Marks and Kondo wanted to make him a real collaborator.
- Hoai-Tran Bui
Producer Nigel Hawthorne personally invited Sanada to play the role, yet Sanada had doubts since he had not taken an English-language role before. Sanada was convinced after the producers assured him that he was "an actor first before [being] Japanese or Asian". [6]
Feb 27, 2024 · He received his first-ever producer credit on the show, painstakingly poring over every detail of the production’s lavish, nuanced portrait of feudal Japan.
Mar 7, 2024 · In his eagerness to blend east and west and share a more authentic depiction of his home country and its customs, Sanada relished the opportunity to be a producer, a position he believes came...
Jun 12, 2024 · But it wasn’t until Kondo and Marks came aboard that Sanada was asked to become a producer on the show, a career-first he proudly took on all the way to the set.
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