{"id":10427,"date":"2012-04-30T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2012-04-30T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:30:53","slug":"japanese-actor-watanabe-for-the-wolverine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=10427","title":{"rendered":"Japanese actor Watanabe for THE WOLVERINE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/xmenfilms.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/rsz_watanabe.jpg?resize=594%2C250\" alt=\"\" title=\"rsz_watanabe\" width=\"594\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chances are high that producers will try to snag Japanese actor <strong>Ken Watanabe<\/strong> for a role in the Hugh Jackman-starring THE WOLVERINE. Fox CEO Tom Rothman <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/the-wolverine-filming-japan-tom-rothman\/162719\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently said<\/a> &#8220;[they&#8217;ll] start casting in the next month or so. There\u2019ll be a lot of local Japanese talent in it.&#8221; If hired, Watanabe would likely be up for the role of Wolverine&#8217;s girlfriend, Yukio&#8217;s vicious crimelord father or the deadly Silver Samurai. Production is prepping for filming in Australia, Japan, and the USA.<\/p>\n<p><em>Which Japanese actors would you like to see in THE WOLVERINE?<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a id=\"pd_a_6186042\"><\/a><div class=\"CSS_Poll PDS_Poll\" id=\"PDI_container6186042\" style=\"\"><\/div><div id=\"PD_superContainer\"><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/polldaddy.com\/p\/6186042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take Our Poll<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are high that producers will try to snag Japanese actor Ken Watanabe for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,27,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-poll","category-the-wolverine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}