Anna Sawai covers Marie Claire’s 2026 summer issue. The Emmy-winning actress talks about how she’s still trying to shake off her strict J-pop media training, how she was so discouraged after losing out on a part in John Wick: Chapter 4 that she nearly backed out of auditioning for Shōgun, and how she was looking into making her own Yoko Ono movie when she found out Sam Mendes was making his Beatles films (she accepted his offer of the role after a series of Zoom meetings and a read-through of the script).
