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‘Sunny’ Star Hidetoshi Nishijima on Working With Rashida Jones and the Future of His Mysterious Character
Hidetoshi Nishijima — the star 'Drive My Car' and 'Sunny' — breaks down Season 1 of Apple TV+'s sci-fi thriller, and talks working with Rashida Jones.
Nishijima — who starred in “Drive My Car,” the 2021 Japanese film that was nominated for best picture, and won the Academy Award for international feature — relished the opportunity to play an ordinary man who must wrestle with existential questions about what it means to be human. In the wake of their disappearance, a grief-stricken Suzie is given Sunny (voiced by Joanna Sotomura), one of a new class of domestic robots made by Masa’s electronics company ImaTech, which she gradually begins to lean on for support — and uses to uncover what really happened to her family. “Sunny” is the latest screen project to explore the ethical concerns surrounding artificial intelligence — one of the most rapidly evolving issues that affects nearly every industry, but remains particularly pertinent to the creation of art following last year’s dual Hollywood strikes.
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