The Terror Season 2 casts a lead actor with a personal connection to its World War II Japanese Internment setting

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Derek Mio, a fourth generation Japanese-American whose grandfather was sent to the Manzanar internment camp after Pearl Harbor, is joining the AMC series as Chester Nakayama, "the son of Japanese born immigrants who has dreams of leaving his insular Japanese-American community and joining the army. Throughout the season, Nakayama transforms from a naïve kid to a war hero." Mio's other grandfather was from Hawaii and served in the U.S. Military Intelligence Service and was stationed in Japan during the Occupation as an interpreter and cultural liaison.