SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from “Chapter Fourteen,” this week’s episode of “Pachinko,’ now streaming on AppleTV+.
“It’s been a very good week,” says a smiling Anna Sawai on the Thursday after her history-making Emmys victory. Having won an Emmy for lead actress in a drama — for her role as Toda Mariko in FX’s “Shōgun” — she became the first actor of Asian descent ever to win in the category, one of a record-breaking 18 total trophies for the drama’s first season.
But the New Zealand-born Sawai had only so much time to enjoy that Emmys high: She had to report back to work in Australia,
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