{"id":919814,"date":"2021-04-28T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/919814\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:00:15","slug":"lesean-thomas-talks-history-and-heroes-in-netflixs-yasuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/919814\/","title":{"rendered":"LeSean Thomas Talks History and Heroes in Netflix&#39;s YASUKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3G28L-pndsA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDirector and producer LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters, Children of Ether) sat down with Mercedez Clewis (@pixelatedlenses) to discuss his upcoming sci-fi historical action series YASUKE, debuting on Netflix on April 29. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas reveals how he first learned about Japan&#8217;s Black samurai, his decision to take the story into the sci-fi\/fantasy realm, and the anime OAVs that influenced him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director and producer LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters, Children of Ether) sat down with Mercedez Clewis (@pixela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":919815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[893,443745,443746,443747,443751,443750,443752,443753,443749,47147,23962,443754,79491,60025,76788,1211,11202,443748,11201,11200],"class_list":{"0":"post-919814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-anime","9":"tag-anime-news","10":"tag-anime-news-network","11":"tag-black-heroes","12":"tag-boondocks","13":"tag-cannon-busters","14":"tag-children-of-ether","15":"tag-directors","16":"tag-fight-scenes","17":"tag-flying-lotus","18":"tag-interview","19":"tag-lakeith","20":"tag-lakeith-stanfield","21":"tag-lesean-thomas","22":"tag-mecha","23":"tag-netflix","24":"tag-samurai","25":"tag-watch-next","26":"tag-yasuke","27":"tag-yasuke-"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}