It took 13 puppeteers to bring AppleTV+’s titular robot “Sunny” to life. Joanna Sotomura, the American performer who embodies the ominously helpful bot, flew to Tokyo where the series was filmed to meet the robotics team two weeks before filming began.  “We had our robot dojo space. I would do the rehearsals and scenes as […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the entire first season of “Sunny,” now streaming on Apple TV+. As a Japanese actor, Hidetoshi Nishijima often receives offers to play morally gray characters, such as samurais and yakuza members, who are defined by a particular profession and era. But then he was approached for the role […]