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Harper's Bazaar India|March 2024
Actor Anna Sawai of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and Pachinko fame breaks down the preparation process of her new webseries Shogun.
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Set in feudal Japan of the 1600s, Shōgun (2024) is an original adaption of James Clavell's bestselling novel. The FX Original series, streaming in India on Disney+ Hotstar, follows the journey of a feudal lord, 'Yoshii Toranaga played by actor and producer Hiroyuki Sanada, a English pilot of a mysteriously marooned European ship, Jack Blackthorne'-played by actor Cosmo Jarvis and a Christian noble woman with disgraced family ties, 'Toda Mariko-played by actor Anna Sawai. The limited series created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks depicts the power struggles faced by these three characters amidst the fraught political landscape of the country. In an exclusive conversation with Bazaar India, actor Anna Sawai of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023-2024) and Pachinko (2022) fame, takes us through the gruelling preparation process and creative bandwidth of the series.

Harper's Bazaar: How did you prepare for your role considering the nuanced cultural and historical context of the series?

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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة March 2024 من Harper's Bazaar India.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.

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