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‘Shogun’ Star Hiroyuki Sanada on Season 2 Plans, His Emmy Nom and Why He Wants to Do a Rom-Com or Musical Next
Awards Circuit Podcast: Emmy-nommed "Shogun" star Hiroyuki Sanada on playing Lord Toranaga, season 2 and more. Also: The limited series acting races.
Set in 1600 feudal Japan, “Shogun” features Anna Sawai as Lady Mariko, who is placed in charge of translating for Lord Toranaga (Sanada) and Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), an English ship captain who enters a society as it prepares for war. When he had wrapped for the day, he’d collaborate over Zoom swapping notes and ensuring the minute details from fabric to prints and even the thickness of a uchikake belt were accurate to the era. Variety’s “Awards Circuit” podcast, hosted by Clayton Davis, Jazz Tangcay, Emily Longeretta, Jenelle Riley and Michael Schneider, who also produces, is your one-stop source for lively conversations about the best in film and television.
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