.rinasawayama was glad that her JohnWick4 character Akira, one of the few female characters in the franchise, wasn’t sexualized but given her own perspective and agenda: 'I can tell the story and I don’t have to worry about how I’m being portrayed.'
,” which sees her playing an anguished salary man, showed off a chameleonic presence and physicality. The director similarly cast Asia Kate Dillon in “Chapter 3” after watching them on an episode of “Billions.” He offered Sawayama the role, inviting her to tailor it to her instincts.
Sawayama makes an impressive debut as the lithe and lethal Akira is forced into action, but her performance is also grounded in conflicted emotion, torn between her father’s wishes and her worry for him as he helps John Wick. She was glad that Akira, one of the few female characters in the franchise, wasn’t sexualized but given her own perspective and agenda.
“I’m asking a bit of a life commitment, to put his life on hold for me, and it’s not a ‘Donnie Yen movie,’” said the director. “We’ve invited him as a guest to our world. It was a bit daunting.” They arrived at a new name, Caine, with its layers of meaning: as a brother in arms to Wick’s Abel; as nod to David Carradine’s “Kung Fu” wanderer — and reclamation of Bruce Lee’s reported exclusion from the role; and in the literal sense, the personification of his epee-like weapon of choice.You’d think pretty much any actor alive who can do a halfway decent flying kick would jump at the chance to play a martial-arts-fighting, Force-sensitive monk in a “Star Wars” movie.
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