I am so excited!!!!!” The musician, 30, wrote through Twitter on Thursday, May 27. She also echoed the opinion on Instagram using a range of crying face emojis.
Sawayama’s fans, who were dubbed”Pixels,” were quick to share their excitement too.
No one is doing it like her!!!!!!!” One Twitter consumer wrote following the casting statement. Another additional .
According to Deadline, the”XS” singer’s precise role has been kept under wraps. Production will begin this summer on location in France, Germany and Japan after previously being postponed on account of this COVID-19 pandemic. The movie is set to premiere in 2022.
“I am so glad to have Rina on board to make her feature film debut in John Wick: Chapter 4,” director Chad Stahelski said in an announcement to Deadline. “She is an unbelievable talent who will bring so much into the movie.”
John Wick: Chapter 3 was released in May 2019, five years after the first film’s premiere. The franchise includes Reeves, 56, as the titular character, a retired hitman who sets out from the first movie to find vengeance for the death of the dog.
The pop superstar, who published her debut album, SAWAYAMA, in April 2020, began her career as a model before joining the audio industry. Produced in Japan, she moved to London at the age of 5 and resides at the U.K.
In a dialogue with Vogue on Thursday, Sawayama discussed how she’s seen the representation of minorities change during her period in the industry.
“Asian representation was really much lower [once I began my career] and there was a tokenizing of people of colour in the time that I hope is becoming marginally less,” she said. “Before it would be just one Asian, one Black man, and then a few white individuals, but it would not ever tip the other way to be majority Asian or bulk Black.”
