[This story contains spoilers for season one of Shōgun.]
Hiroyuki Sanada, star and producer of Shōgun, is teasing a bit in regards to the hit present’s second season.
The actor was requested at The Hollywood Reporter and SAG-AFTRA’s star-studded Emmy Nominees Night time occasion on Friday if the upcoming season might doubtlessly be filmed in Japan. Season one was filmed in Canada on account of COVID-19.
“We’re discovering the probabilities, after all,” he revealed. “Not every thing however perhaps a part of [the show].”
In an interview with THR final month, Sanada mentioned Vancouver was a “excellent location for Shōgun” because it’s a convincing stand-in for pre-modern Japan.
“They’ve a giant studio, and a 20-minute drive from the studio they’ve a forest, river, harbor, every thing, with none trendy buildings or wires or cables,” the actor added on the time. “In Japan, it’s so arduous to search out that. Trendy issues are all over the place.”
In Could, FX and Hulu introduced that they had been creating two extra seasons of the breakout drama, primarily based on writer James Clavell’s 1975 novel of the identical identify. Shōgun later scored 25 Emmy nominations, together with finest drama sequence, main the pack for this 12 months’s awards ceremony on Sunday. Sanada additionally earned a finest dramatic actor nod for his function as Lord Yoshii Toranaga.
At Friday’s occasion, Sanada was additionally requested if audiences might nonetheless count on to see Anna Sawai reprise her function as Toda Mariko within the upcoming season, as her character sacrificed her life for Lord Yoshii Toranaga in Shōgun’s ninth episode, “Crimson Sky.” When THR pitched the concept of Sawai returning as a ghost or in a flashback, Sanada quipped, “Or twins?”
“I do not know,” the actor admitted. “Solely she might do this function so nobody can do this like that. I’m so pleased with her after which hopefully we are able to work collectively once more however who is aware of.”
Tiffany Taylor contributed to this story.