“If a character is just there to be a token Asian, I’m not interested. There has to be a really good reason she has an accent or has a samurai sword. It’s damaging to all of us”
Photo: Catherine Servel Crazy rich Asians? Sonoya Mizuno remembers her reaction when a friend mentioned the novel: I want no part of that. The Japanese-Argentinian-English actress, who plays Araminta in the groundbreaking film, thought it just sounded so far removed from her own world. But then director Jon M. Chu, who she first met at a K-pop concert, sent her the script. When she read the book, she said, she finally understood the appeal: “It was so funny and satirical, but in a loving way.
In September, Mizuno will appear in the Netflix series Maniac, directed by True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga and co-starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, and she’s working with Alex Garland a third time on his new FX tech thriller. She’s also the new global face of Shiseido. Below, she talks to the Cut about following her gut, meeting crazy rich Asians in real life, and the importance of Asian representation.
To get into character, I watched videos of socialite girls from East London on YouTube to get a sense of how they talked and did their hair — Chelsea girls. There are lot of those types in London and New York, who used to do reality shows from back in the day. I make physical character boards for roles and add images and words. For Araminta, one of the things I added was cheerleaders – those cheesy ones with huge smiles and bouncy ponytails. I felt like that was her energy, and lots of sunshine and flowers.I didn’t, but one of the girls — I don’t want to say who — went on a date with one.No. Well, after the film came out, someone wrote on my Instagram, “Were you the girl eating the testers [samples] at Morrison’s [a supermarket]?” Yeah. That was me.
Then Alex’s team told me they wanted me to come back to audition for a bigger part. I had a deep understanding that I had to do it, which is something I don’t have very often. I just knew I had to. Someone in the equity department of the ballet told me how I would be able to [leave the company] — but understand that there would no going back. My bridges would be burned.
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