Comment "Email" to get news like this in your inbox every morning.⁠ ⁠ Anna Sawai, the lead actress from FX’s historical drama “Shogun,” used to rock the stage as part of the Japanese girl group Faky. After making history as the first Asian actress to win outstanding lead actress in a drama, Sawai joked about celebrating by “drinking with her castmates” and trying to forget her problems for a while.⁠ ⁠ Before Sawai became acting royalty, she was the OG leader of Faky, a former five-person J-pop girl group known for their singles “Better Without You” and “You.” She enjoyed being part of the group but left in 2018 to chase her acting dreams, saying, “I had to quit to actually start [acting]. I loved the girls, but I was not in control of my own career.” And it paid off — she snagged a role in “F9” and hasn’t looked back. Now, you can see her on TV in shows like “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” and Emmy-winning Apple TV+ series “Pachinko,” where she plays a Harvard-educated, Japan-based busin...