In high school, Fukuhara was a karate champion.
No doubt it was her martial arts training-and director David Ayers’s decision to actually hire an Asian actress to play a Japanese character ( whew)-that helped her land her breakthrough role. She still didn’t have an agent when she got the call to audition for Suicide Squad, only a manager.
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“Coming from a first-generation immigrant family, we just didn’t know how to go about the business,” said Fukuhara, who is Japanese-American. But she found it hard to break through as an actress. In middle school, she landed a gig through a friend hosting a show on Disney, in which she interviewed the cast of Disney movies, like Johnny Depp during the height of the Pirates of the Caribbean years. Growing up in Los Angeles, she had always been been enamored by the movie industry. “In the past year, my life has changed so much.”
But Fukuhara is a complete unknown-Katana, the masked, blade-carrying mystery warrior who protects the Squad (the part is no mere cameo), is her first onscreen role. These days, superhero franchises are where movie stars go to burnish their value-and Suicide Squad, out August 5, has plenty of wattage, with Margot Robbie, Will Smith, Jared Leto, Ben Affleck, and Cara Delevingne as Squad members. “My friend was filming a couple of miles away,” Fukuhara, 24, recalled, “and she told me they had to stop for hours because the sound of our ammo firing traveled all the way over to their set.” Whatever that production was, Fukuhara can no longer recall, but it is assuredly not causing as much blockbuster noise as the lustily deranged comic-book tentpole that has been hotly anticipated since it was announced as DC’s answer to Marvel’s Avengers franchise in 2014. When the actress Karen Fukuhara was shooting Suicide Squad in Toronto last year, she befriended a stuntwoman who happened to be working on another film across town.
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