George Takei Joins The Terror Season Two For Internment Story

George Takei has joined both the cast and crew of AMC’s second season of The Terror, which will center on World War II’s Japanese internment camps. AMC announced that Takei will be a series regular and will serve as a consultant on the horror anthology show’s second season. Takei is joined on screen by Kiki Sukezane as a mysterious woman connected to Chester Nakayama (Derek Milo)’s past, Miki Ishikawa as a friend to the Nakayama family, Shingo Usami as Chester’s father and Naoko Mori as Chester’s mother.

The new season will be set during World War II and center on an uncanny specter that menaces a Japanese-American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war in the Pacific. It will air in 2019, with production kicking off in Vancouver next month.

Takei has personal experience with internment camps, having been imprisoned as a child in Japanese-American during the war. He has become an activist for recognition of this ugly period of American history and his experiences served as the inspiration for Allegiance, a musical that played on Broadway in 2015 and starred Takei.