Shock of Her Granddaughter Not Knowing Her Japanese Heritage
And she said something about, “Your people,” and I shuddered inside – “your people?” and I had to kind of calm myself, and I had to tell myself, “There is no ‘your people’ or ‘my people,’ because you come – part of you comes from me.” And so I asked her mother for permission – because they were divorced at the time, my son and his wife, to take her to Japan. And I took her and introduced her to the relatives in Hiroshima. I thought it was important for her to know there is no “Your people, my—” you’re part Japanese. That was – that was a shock when she said that. You know, but I’m not with her all the time, she doesn’t see me all the time, but I – I thought, “Did she not…” I never asked her. Did she not notice I looked different from her?
País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum
Entrevista
Takayo Fischer, nacida en noviembre de 1932, es una actriz nisei americana de teatro, cine y televisión. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, de pequeña, ella y su familia fueron evacuados de manera forzosa de la costa oeste y pasaron algún tiempo en el Centro de Reunión de Fresno, antes de ser reubicados a los campos de concentración Jerome y Rohwer. Fischer luego vivió en Chicago, Illinois, en donde como joven adulta ganó la corona “Reina Miss Nisei”. Ella ha aparecido en docenas de grandes films hollywoodenses, los cuales incluyen Moneyball: Rompiendo las reglas (2011), Piratas del Caribe: En el fin del mundo (2007), En busca de la felicidad (2006) y Memorias de una Geisha (2005). Ella también ha aparecido en la producción teatral de El mundo de Suzie Wong en Nueva York, en 1958, y en muchas producciones de la compañía teatral East West Players en Los Ángeles. (junio 2018)