The Boys star Karen Fukuhara has called to #StopAsianHate after an unprovoked attack. Taking to Instagram, the actress shared a statement addressing the situation, telling her followers that she’d been randomly “struck” by a man hard enough to knock off her hat. Though she says she’s “physically fine” after the incident, she still feels that she’s “lucky” that the situation didn’t get worse. Fukuhara hopes that telling the story will help raise awareness about these kinds of random attacks against women, Asians, and the elderly.
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“Today I was struck in the head by a man (I’m physically fine) & this s**t needs to stop. Us women, Asians, the elderly need your help,“ Fukuhara says. “I was walking to a cafe for some coffee and a man struck me in the back of my head. It came out of nowhere. We made no eye contact before, I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. It came to my surprise and my hate flew off. By the time I looked back, he was a few feet away from me (he must have kept walking after hitting me). I thought about confronting him first but he started coming towards me and I didn’t think it was worth the risk. After a few seconds of staring at each other, and him yelling at me, he eventually walked off.”
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She added, “This is the first time I’ve been harmed physically, although racial slurs and hurtful actions have been directed to me in the past. I write this, because I’ve had conversations with multi-racial friends of mine that had no idea these hate crimes happen to everyday, regular people - people that they share meals with. I felt it was important to raise awareness. Ultimately I know I got lucky. He could have come back to hit me again. He could have carried a weapon. The shock of this experience has me thinking about taking self-defense classes. But why is this something we as ‘victims’ have to think about? What satisfaction are these perpetrators getting from hitting women, Asians, the ELDERLY? They need to be held accountable. What can we doa s a community to prevent these horrible crimes?”
Karen Fukuhara is a Fan Favorite on The Boys
Karen Fukuhara has been promoting the third season of The Boys, the popular superhero satire series on Prime Video. After two acclaimed seasons, the series will return this summer with new episodes. A season 3 trailer was just recently released, providing the first footage of Fukuhara’s return as Kimiko. She has served as a fan favorite since the show’s debut in 2019.
The Boys season 3 starts streaming on Prime Video on June 3, 2022. The series also stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Antony Starr, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capon, Chace Crawford, Dominique McElligott, and Jessie T. Usher. It is developed for Prime Video by showrunner Eric Kripke and is inspired by the comic book series created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
