Shōgun’s Mariko is a breakthrough performance for Anna Sawai. Though she appeared onMonarch: Legacy of MonstersandPachinko, the FX drama puts her talents on full display. “In the beginning, it was just like, Well, I’m looking for a job,” Sawai says. “I was taping so much in the beginning for, quite frankly, anything. I decided to do [Shōgun] because it stood out as a project for me, as a Japanese woman, feeling like the women in this show were going to be portrayed in a better light.” Below, Sawai discusses herShōgunexit, Mariko’s journey, and why she believes a series about feudal Japan is resonating so much with audiences today. |
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Don’t get your hopes up—the riveting samurai story has a definitive end. |
| Join us as we say goodbye to the best TV show of the year. |
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Bobby Gunn promised his wife he was through with fighting. In the winter of 1993, shell-shocked by the death of his mother and the sudden collapse of his boxing career, Gunn had moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and fallen in love. Once, while boxing in Las Vegas, he had met Rose Keith, a beautiful blond Scottish Traveler, and she had never left his mind. Glamorous and outgoing, Rose came from a wealthy real-estate family. Her father, Hugh, owned twenty mobile-home parks and was doing so well, they had settled down. or Gunn, Rose was a lifeline. In Florida, with neither boxing nor Jackie to unite them, he and his father had grown further apart, with depression hanging like a fog in their tiny apartment on the northern fringe of town. |
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The classic color is more versatile than you think. |
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Tom Cotton is a genuinely bloodthirsty bobble-throated slapdick from Arkansas. Just in the past two weeks, he has advocated vigilante violence against protesters who might delay his commute to the Capitol from his Beltway pied-à-terre. And now, along with Missouri senator Josh (Haulin’ Ass) Hawley, Cotton has recommended sending the National Guard to the Columbia University campus. You will note that many of the voices calling for a severe crackdown are doing so for the purpose of curtailing what might happen. But the real fanatics, like Cotton and Hawley, are fairly slavering for violence to happen so that they can luxuriate in the breaking of heads. |
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