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Both Ha and Sawai say they have no idea what will happen to their characters in the second season. Solomon and Naomi are both oppressed by Japanese society in different ways, but they struggle to find solidarity in the midst of that.

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For Sawai, representing history was a big part of why she signed on, too. Ha said the vibe of the finance scenes are a little bit "American Psycho. In those scenes, he leaned into the New York City, New England identity Solomon adopted when he moved to America as a teen, a world Ha is familiar with himself.

No matter where you're from, as long as you're able to muster that strength, we will come out of it OK. By Victoria Edel. For Ha, playing Solomon was a unique challenge because the character is fluent in three languages: English, Korean, and Japanese.

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Ha said some of his favorite scenes in the series are between Solomon, Naomi, and their white American coworker Tom Andrews Jimmi Simpson — and not just because those scenes were mostly in English. I understand their point of view, yeah "pretty boys" are dominating their culture, but lead by example not through oppression.

Sawai hopes that viewers worldwide can take something away from the show's message of strength in the face of hardship. Fuck those guys. And I wanted to share that story because I think that a lot of people kind of forget about where we're coming from.

Ha says, "Presenting this Zainichi story and narrative to an American audience, primarily. But Ha knew he wanted to be a part of the show as soon as he read the bestselling book the show is based on. The Baek family at the center of the saga are what Japanese people refer to as Zainichi — Koreans who moved to Japan during the Japanese occupation and never went home.

She knows she cannot be outspoken about the discrimination, so she finds her own ways to fight back. She says, "I just hope that [viewers] walk away knowing that whatever they're going through in life right now, if they're feeling alone or feeling powerless, that that's not the final result.

Solomon's story in "Pachinko" the novel is covered completely in season one — though the series makes some major changes — and Naomi doesn't exist in the books.

Jin Ha is a South Korean-born American actor known for his roles in the TV series Devs, Love Life, and Pachinko in addition to the musicals Hamilton and Jesus Christ Superstar. Naomi — a brand new character that does not appear in the book — is a young Japanese woman who has very little opportunity in the male-dominated world of finance.

As Baek, actor Jin Ha portrays a Korean immigrant attempting to fit into a new life whilst attempting to stay true to his roots. One of his coworkers, Naomi Anna Sawai is sometimes his rival and sometimes his friend as they try to navigate the business world.

But they're both excited to see what showrunner Soo Hugh comes up with. Season one's episodes frequently jump throughout time, but at the latest chronological point in the story, we find Solomon Jin Haa young man in his 20s who finds himself torn between his Korean family, Japanese society, and American-style capitalism.

Oh boy, the South Koreans that just voted in the conservative government are going to have their balls in a bunch over this. Sawai, who fans might recognize from 's "F9," says Naomi's journey reminded her of what her own mother dealt with in late 20th century Japan.

She says, "Realizing what my mother had gone through was very important to me. In fact, Ha could relate to the storyline more than you might. He describes working on his Japanese and Korean lines as "an incredibly arduous and nonstop process" and credits his dialect coach for making sure it all worked out.

He says, "It was an incredibly intricate and complicated process of somehow making the lines — not just the pronunciation, but the intonation, the inflection, the pace, the emotional heat within each of the lines — [work].