Now approaching its sixth decade, Sanadas career has become every bit as impressive as his legendary mentors.
I played Toranagas model, the realshogunIeayasu, when I was 20.
I played young Ieayasu 30 years ago.
So that was a good base for me, Sanada says.
Sanada chuckles at the comparison.
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Ieyesu was a hero of mine when I was kid.
He taught me a lot.
So playing him and introducing him to the world was very important for me.
Playing his role means a return to him.
Or at least it did inJames Clavells 1975 novelupon which FXsShogunis based.
We used the whole novel part already.
So we have no novel in season two, but we have real history and models, Sanada says.
We know what happened in the history.
