The story of how Ken Watanabe landed the role of police detective Hiroto Katagiri in the new HBO Max series “Tokyo Vice” isn’t what you’d expect.
The Oscar nominee for “The Last Samurai” met the series’ showrunner, J.T. Rogers, after playing the lead role in “The King and I” on Broadway in 2015 (a performance that earned him a Tony Award nomination).
That connection led to the part in ‘Vice’ less than five years later, but Watanabe admits he initially thought the concept of “cops versus gangs” was sort of boring.
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