{"id":33478,"date":"2015-06-23T21:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T04:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=33478"},"modified":"2015-06-23T21:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T04:38:39","slug":"japanese-pop-star-to-play-the-holy-spirit-in-the-shack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/06\/japanese-pop-star-to-play-the-holy-spirit-in-the-shack.html","title":{"rendered":"Japanese pop star to play the Holy Spirit in The Shack<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"hawaiifiveo-sumire-a\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Shack<\/a><\/i> has found its Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> reports that Japanese pop star Sumire Matsubara has been tapped to play Sarayu, an Asian woman who represents the third person of the Trinity, in Stuart Hazeldine\u2019s adaptation of the best-selling William P. Young novel.<\/p>\n

Matsubara joins a cast that already included Octavia Spencer and Graham Greene as God the Father, Aviv Alush as Jesus (aka God the Son), and Sam Worthington and Radha Mitchell as parents who are grieving the loss of their daughter.<\/p>\n

So far, no one has been cast yet as Sophia, the personification of God\u2019s wisdom.<\/p>\n

The Shack<\/i> is currently being filmed here in Vancouver<\/a>, under the code name Advantage<\/i>. Hazeldine has posted a few deliberately generic, non-spoilerish pictures from the set to his Instagram account, one of which you can see below.<\/p>\n

The picture of Matsubara above is from her guest stint on Hawaii Five-O<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That pesky Technocrane again.<\/a><\/p>\n

A photo posted by @stuarthazeldine on