![]() He said, ‘I don’t know if I fit in, I don’t know what to wear, should I even go?’ I said, ‘Of course! You have to be there!’ I’m just excited to sit next to him and be able to experience it with him, together. So he was very nervous about coming to the premiere. “He doesn’t speak English, and he’s a very traditional, stoic, Japanese dad. “I’m just excited to see it with my dad,” she told at the premiere. She brought her father with her to the New York premiere of Suicide Squad. Nothing is glamorous about that, haha.”įukuhara’s father, who was born in Japan, works for a Japanese company and her mother teaches piano, she told WWD. “This is of course true on some days, but I still come home to live with my parents at the end of the day. “I think it’s hilarious because everyone thinks my life has changed 360 degrees since I’ve worked on Suicide Squad,” she said. In her NBC News interview, Fukuhara admitted that she still lives with her parents. Karen Fuuhara and Margot Robbie at SDCC 2016. Before ‘Suicide Squad,’ Fukuhara Worked as a Translator & Subtitle-Editor “I remember seeing a quote that said something like, ‘If you are going to strive to be the best, it’s hard in any industry so you might as well do it in the one you are passionate about,'” she told WWD.ģ. While she fought along the team throughout the movie's runtime, she had a limited amount of dialogue and character. Her mother suggested she study acting, but she instead majored in sociology at UCLA. Katana was a mostly silent member of Task Force X in Suicide Squad. “If I could do it over, I’d actually listen to their answers, but I was so nervous,” she told WWD.Īlthough the job lead to TV opportunities in Japan during high school, she avoided getting into acting. According to Women’s Wear Daily, she got the job after a friend introduced her to a Disney casting director. In her first episode, she interviewed Pirates of the Caribbean stars Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley. The show provided Fukuhara with an entry point into Hollywood. In 1997, the Disney Channel launched Movie Surfers, a show with teens interviewing Disney movie stars that aired between shows and commercials. While on death row at Belle Reve prison, his cell regularly fills up with gas and he was implanted with a micro-bomb to insure his obedience.Karen Fukuhara was introduced as Katana at SDCC 2015. When he realises that there were innocent women and children in the building however, he went with the police quite willingly. Said power is pyrokinesis and in the comics, his character sets fire to a building in order to collect a debt owed to him by some local gang members, killing everyone inside. The Los Angeles-born ex-criminal received his abilities after coming across Lane in hospital while they were both being treated and the latter passed on his gift before he passed away. The El Diablo name has been adopted by a few characters in past DC issues including Rafael Sandoval and Lazarus Lane but Suicide Squad sees Hernandez bring the latest version to life in Santana. Main adversaries: Mad Dog, Grey Lora and Adam Reed Much like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before it, Suicide. Played by: American actor Jay Hernandez, best known for his roles in Hostel, Nashville and The Expanse. Concept artist Stephen Martiniere shares his early designs for Suicide Squad characters Enchantress, Katana and Incubus. Pyrokinetic metahuman Diablo is played by Jay Hernandez Warner Bros. She wields a sword named Soultaker, which captures the spirits of the people it kills, allowing her to communicate with them. Eventually she moves to the US and embarks on a thrilling career as a vigilante. Her backstory however is that she's known first as Tatsu Yamashiro, a Japanese woman who trains as a samurai after her husband and children are killed by the yakuza. In fact, she's even been been a member of do-gooder team Birds Of Prey alongside Black Canary and Oracle, so what she's doing running around with the Suicide Squad in this film remains a mystery. ![]() ![]() Unlike the other members of the Squad, Katana is unique, as she's traditionally a superhero and not a supervillain like the rest. Main adversaries: Windfall, Shakedown, New Wave Baron Bedlam and General Karnz Played by: Japanese-American actress Karen Fukuhara Japanese-American actress Karen Fukuhara stars in Suicide Squad as Katana.
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