“A lot of the characters are tackling their trauma, and I find that to be liberating.”
, the ladies of the tight-knit cast partake in what they call “Estrogen Night.” “We all get together, have some wine, get some takeout, and just,” says Karen Fukuhara, who plays the mute but badass Kimiko Miyashiro , by a terrorist organization. Kenji later revealed to Kimiko’s closest confidante, Frenchie , that his sister stopped speaking after their parents’s murder.
Fukuhara, however, does see a silver lining to the separation. “It was important for Kimiko to experience time with some of the other members of The Boys,” she says. Fans also enjoyed the resulting unprecedented team-ups, like Kimiko joining super-crusader Annie to rescue a reluctantly undercover Hughie , who was chained up in off-brand Batman Tek Knight’s BDSM cave.
Fukuhara actually planted the seeds for Kimiko’s verbal breakthrough back in season two, after researching and learning that muteness caused by emotional trauma can eventually be overcome. She askedcreator Eric Kripke to consider her findings and make the root of Kimiko’s muteness psychological rather than physical. He agreed, “so that if we wanted to expand on that subject, or Kimiko’s ability to speak, we would have that option later,” explains Fukuhara. “Thank god it paid off.
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