George Takei Joins 'The Terror' Season Two as Series Regular & Consultant!

George Takei is joining The Terror!

The 81-year-old Star Trek actor has signed on to join the second series of the AMC anthology series that takes place during World War II, and is set in a Japanese-American internment camp.

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George will also be serving as a consultant on the show where he will work closely with The Terror executive producers to ensure the accuracy of historical events and storytelling. When he was a child, George was also imprisoned in two such internment camps.

On the show, George will be playing Yamato-san, a former fishing captain and community elder.

Production for season two of The Terror is set to begin in January in Vancouver. The show will then premiere later in 2019 with ten episodes on AMC.