Karen Fukuhara Talks Playing Katana In ‘Suicide Squad’

Karen Fukuhara will soon be making her big screen debut in Suicide Squad as Katana. Fans have seen the character of Katana in different forms, including being seen on Arrow and within DC Comics in Suicide Squad Most Wanted: Deadshot/Katana but in Squad Fukuhara will be bringing a different energy to the role.

Fukuhara opened up to Playboy magazine and talked about how this role was very important into her because she is a proud first-generation Japanese American.

“It’s rare to see an Asian female take on the role of a badass. As a first-generation Japanese American, I’ve always wanted to play a samurai warrior like my Suicide Squad character, Katana. Samurai are almost always male, so growing up in America I had a hard time figuring out role models. Katana and I may not have the same personality, but coming from the same cultural upbringing, we share core values. In Japanese culture there’s this idea of putting others before yourself, but I’ve also never wanted to let myself down. Someone recently told me how refreshing it is to see an Asian woman as a superhero. That stuck with me. Stand up for yourself and what you love.”

Directed by David Ayer and starring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoyue-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, Cara Delevingne, Karen Fukuhara, and Adam Beach.

It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity.  U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do.  However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself? 

Suicide Squad opens in theaters on August 5, 2016. Are you excited for the movie?

Source: Playboy