One of the stars of The Boysthe Prime Video series, reveals to have been assaulted in the street by a stranger. Shocked and angry, she insists on raise awareness of racist hate crimes.
after the insults, the blows
From fiction to sad reality. While fans of the series The Boys eagerly awaiting the release of season 3 on Prime Video on June 3, one of the fictional actresses was victim of a racist crime. Everything happened in the middle of the street, without her seeing her attacker coming. “Today I was hit on the head by a man (I’m physically fine) and this shit needs to stop. We women, Asians, old people need your help”she wrote in the caption of an Instagram post aimed at to denounce these monstrous acts in full expansion.
If this aggression could have happened to the interpreter of Homelander, Annie, Queen Maeve or even The Deep, it is Karen Fukuhara who was physically attacked. In the series The Boysshe plays the role of Kimiko and it is rather her who is used to hitting the bad guys. In Instagram post of March 16, she tells how it happened : “I was going for a coffee and a man hit me on the back of the head. It came out of nowhere. We weren’t in eye contact before, I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. And surprise , my hat flew off. By the time I looked back he was a few feet away from me. At first I thought of confronting him, but he started coming towards me and I was like It wasn’t worth it. After a few seconds of looking at himself and yelling at me, he finally walked away.”.
anti-Asian crimes on the rise around the world
This is the first time actress Karen Fukuhara has been physically injured, but she has already suffered numerous racial slurs because of his Asian origins. Devastated and angry, she protests this situation: “The shock of this experience made me think about taking self-defense lessons. But why is this something we as ‘victims’ have to think about? What satisfaction do these perpetrators get from hitting women? , Asians, ELDERLY PEOPLE?”. In his view, now is the time to act, to put in place real measures to stop these attackers. According to a study based on hate and extremism, hate crimes against Asians have indeed increased by 150% in 2020 and an additional 339% in 2021. A damning finding. “They must be held accountable. What can we do as a community to prevent these horrific crimes?”adds the interpreter of Kimiko, quickly supported by Chace Crawford (The Deep), Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk) and Jack Quaid (Hughie), his co-stars from The Boys.