“It’s a story of Japanese Americans, but it speaks to anyone who is a part of an immigrant family or has been touched by the immigrant experience,' showrunner Alexander Woo says.
Derek Mio is no stranger to the horror genre. The actor, whose past credits include a recurring role on the ABC Family series “Greek” and a lead role in the PBS Special “Day of Independence,” appeared alongside Constance Wu in “Spooked,” a Hulu show about a team of ghost hunters. But that was paranormal comedy.
“The Terror: Infamy,” which premieres Aug. 12, is the second installment in a horror series that weaves monsters and ghosts into the telling of historical events. The first season chronicles the demise of two real-life British warships, Erebus and the Terror as they become trapped in ice while attempting to chart the Northwest Passage, never to be heard from again.
“All the stories and plays I used to write were about Americanness told from an Asian American perspective, so I saw this as an amazing opportunity to tell a profound immigrant story,” Woo told NBC News. “It’s a story of Japanese Americans, but it speaks to anyone who is a part of an immigrant family or has been touched by the immigrant experience.”
“I’m still surprised to this day when I come across people I consider well informed, but who are shocked when I tell them I grew up in the camps, because they’d never heard what happened,” Takei, who plays a Terminal Island elder in the show, told NBC News. “‘The Terror’ will be a groundbreaking telling of this chapter of American history, because no other film or television series has explored and dramatized this so powerfully, and on a massive scale. This will reach so many more people.
Though the spirit that haunts Chester and his community as they move from Terminal Island to the camp isn’t real, the writing team also did extensive research on kwaidan, or Japanese ghost stories. For Takei, the infusion of horror with the incarceration experience of the Japanese American community is organic.
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