Anna Sawai, star of FX’s award-winning historic drama Shōgun, has responded to rumors she’s connected to play Yoko Ono in a collection of 4 Beatles biopics directed by Sam Mendes. The actress instructed reporters on the Display Actor’s Guild Awards following her successful excellent efficiency by an actress in a drama collection, “I feel a rumor is only a rumor.” So we seemingly will not be seeing Sawai as Ono anytime quickly.
So far as what her subsequent venture may be, Sawai says she continues to be wanting. “I am nonetheless attempting to determine what I need to do, so I am studying loads of scripts. I am additionally doing loads of conferences and I simply need to guarantee that what I’m selecting is the precise factor. So it’d take time for me to seek out the precise venture, however I am attempting to be selective in order that I can shock everybody who’s going to observe it.”
Sawai’s SAG award is the newest in a string of massive awards for the actress. She has already picked up an Emmy for excellent lead actress in a drama collection, changing into the primary Asian star to ever win in that class, in addition to a Golden Globe for greatest actress in a TV drama. Shōgun total gained 18 Emmys throughout a broad vary of classes, together with Sawai’s.
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“I watched the entire thing. It’s very tough to stay with.”
Primarily based on James Clavell’s sprawling novel, Shōgun is about within the seventeenth century and follows John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), an English sailor shipwrecked in Japan. Sawai performs Toda Mariko, an clever, excessive born lady who serves as a translator between Blackthorne and Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada).
If Not Sawai, Who Might Play Yoko Ono?
Little or no is thought in regards to the Beatles movies, apart from that every one will give attention to a special member of the Fab 4. Early casting studies recommend that Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson will play John Lennon, Joseph Quinn will play George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan will play Ringo Starr. No official casting selections have been introduced as of this writing, although director Ridley Scott appears satisfied of the Mescal rumor.
That is the primary time surviving Beatles McCartney and Starr, plus the households of Lennon and Harrison, have accredited full biographical rights for a movie venture. There have been numerous biopics involving The Beatles produced within the final a number of a long time, together with Backbeat and Delivery of The Beatles. There have additionally been quite a lot of movies about Lennon particularly, together with Nowhere Boy, Lennon Bare, John and Yoko: A Love Story, and Two of Us, which explores a fictionalized reunion of Lennon and McCartney years after The Beatles’ break up.
Ono was beforehand performed by Naoko Mori in Lennon Bare and by Kim Miyori in John and Yoko: A Love Story. As for who may probably play the artist now, the expertise pool is large open, although it does rely on how a lot display screen time Ono as a personality can have. Presumably, the movie specializing in Lennon will function Ono extra prominently than within the different films, however even then, if the narrative is supposed to observe the rise and fall of the band, Ono would solely present up towards the tip of that story, provided that she met Lennon later in The Beatles’ profession. The as-yet untitled Beatles movies are anticipated to hit theaters someday in 2027.
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Shogun
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2024 – 2025
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FX, Hulu
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Fred Toye, Jonathan van Tulleken, Charlotte Brändström, Takeshi Fukunaga, Hiromi Kamata
