![]() He’s a Londoner, a Cockney to boot, but I had to tell him where the best rest-aurants were here. One was Joe Swash, who I did I’m a Celebrity with. "I’m often telling Londoners about their heritage. I’m not so much a chip off the old block as a huge chunk, I love all things British. Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, so when Yahoo Movies was offered the chance to speak to George Takei, one of the original USS. I was born three weeks before the coronation of George V and that’s how I got my name. The actor, who came third in I’m a Celebrity in 2008, says: “My father loved Britain. The production of Allegiance, at Charing Cross Theatre until April, means he and Brad, 68, have been living in a Central London hotel since November – not that self-confessed Anglophile George minds. “When I would tell Japanese-American friends I was writing a musical of the internment they would say, ‘A musical?’ And I’d say, ‘Yes, don’t you remember the dances, the baseball?’ The music and the laughter, that was how we survived.” He knew it would give people joy and exercise. My father had been in the San Francisco baseball team, so he built a baseball diamond. After dinner, the teenagers all had their dances. So he negotiated with the administration and got a record player. He told them we had to survive and make life meaningful. “My father realised there were people who were depressed, defeated. Getty Images for Foundation for the AIDS Monument)īut he said his family never lost hope – or faith in their country. George says: “He told me how people were unjustly put in a concrete jail cell and brutalised, and he had to convince guards they were innocent.” George’s father Norman, who ran a dry cleaning business, was elected manager at one of the camp’s blocks. My parents were born in the US, we were neither enemy nor alien.” The nation had been swept up in this racist perception of American citizens of Japanese ancestry – but they were Americans and had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor. Star Trek: Picard Season 3's finale streams Thursday, April 20, on Paramount+. “As a teen I was curious, so I started asking my father questions and he began to tell me about all the horrors. There are so many strong narrative reasons for continuing Seven of Nine's journey in Star Trek: Legacy, and with Jeri Ryan committed to working with Terry Matalas and his team once again, all that remains is for the show to finally get the go-ahead. For my parents it was a horrific, anxiety-filled experience but I had fun because I didn’t know any better. I went through that experience as a totally innocent child. He says: “To tell that story has been my mission. In 2019, George published They Called Us Enemy, a book recounting his experiences as a five-year-old after his family were taken from their Sacramento home to a camp in the Arkansas desert.Īnd he has now brought his Broadway musical about it, called Allegiance, to London’s West End.
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