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outstanding comedy series and all other eligible categories. Hi everyone and thank you for joining us for the 534th episode of the

Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and

for those of you tuning in this episode is coming to you from Chapman

University in Orange, California,

where I'm a trustee professor at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and

where an audience of film students are with me to welcome our special guest.

She is a Japanese actress who is stunning in every

regard and thanks to an all-time great performance on a hit show is now poised to join Hollywood's A-list.

You may have seen her in the 2021 blockbuster film F-9, or on the 2022 Apple drama series,

Pachenko. But if you're at all tapped into pop-cola, 2002 Apple drama series, Kachenko.

But if you're at all tapped into pop culture, you've almost certainly seen her on the

2024 smash-hit FX limited series, Show Gun, on which she plays Lady Mariko, a young woman from a disgraced

family who is called upon to serve as a translator between her Japanese lord and an Englishman

who shows up on their shores. For her performance she has received

off-the-charts reviews, found a tremendous fan base, and is now a top-tier

Emmy contender.

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