{"id":42002,"date":"2015-10-23T09:44:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=42002"},"modified":"2015-10-23T09:44:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:44:57","slug":"takei-talks-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/10\/takei-talks-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei Talks Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Takei<\/strong>‘s Allegiance<\/em> opens on Broadway on next month, and the actor explained what fans coming to see the show can expect.<\/p>\n

The story “is the story of the Kimura family,” explained Takei, “but it’s the memory of Sam Kimura (Telly Leung<\/strong>, Takei). They were a tightly bound family, a farm family from Salinas, California.”<\/p>\n

The Kimura family is sent to an internment camp in Wyoming, where Sam falls in love with a white Army nurse, and his sister Kei (Lea Salonga<\/strong>) falls for a young law student.<\/p>\n

“After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their recruitment centers to volunteer to fight for this country,” said Takei. “This act of patriotism on the part of Japanese-Americans was answered with a slap in the face. They were denied military service and categorized as enemy non-aliens. It was outrageous to call people who are acting on patriotism the enemy. And then to compound that word with non-alien? What is that? It\u2019s the word citizen defined in the negative.<\/p>\n

“And then they imprisoned us. A year into the imprisonment, they realized there\u2019s a wartime manpower shortage and they came down with the draft. And the young law student says ‘I will fight for my country as an American, but I will not go as an internee. If I can report to my hometown draft board with my family back home, I will fight for my country, but I will not go as an internee, leaving my family in imprisonment.’ It’s a gutsy and principled and very American posture to take. And, for that, he’s tried for draft evasion and thrown into a federal penitentiary. So, Lea’s character takes over the leadership of the resistors and her brother goes off to fight in a segregated all-Japanese unit. And it’s that fracture that symbolizes the fracture within the whole Japanese-American community. But they ultimately come back together.”<\/p>\n

Allegiance<\/em> opens November 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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