AMC's "The Terror: Infamy" is a ghost story set against the backdrop of World War II in America, but for actor-consultant George Takei who experienced that time period first-hand, it is a chance to tell a less understood part of history in a very unusual way. You can watch the new original series on AMC.
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00:00I was incarcerated by my own government simply because we happened to look like the people that bombed Portal Harbor.
00:31I love to talk, I love to communicate, and social media gives me that opportunity to do that,
00:38both on topics that are very serious, that I'm seriously concerned about,
00:43as well as I love having fun and seeing the ridiculous aspect of some parts of our society.
00:52I was brought into the Terra Infamy as a consultant,
00:56which means to authenticate the details of the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
01:03Yesterday, the United States of America was suddenly attacked.
01:08December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.
01:15This is the first time that ten hours are devoted to telling the story over a ten-week period.
01:22It's organic to the story we tell of the immigrant generation that brought with them to this country
01:29the beliefs, the lores, and the superstitions of the old country.
01:45What's groundbreaking about the Terra Infamy is that it tells the story of a little-known
01:52and even less understood part of American history.
02:00The Terra Infamy
02:06Some more of the pictures that I took turned out like this.
02:09What am I doing wrong?
02:23I think this is a groundbreaking opportunity,
02:26and that's what attracted me to working on this show.