The new MonsterVerse TV show Monarch: Legacy of Monsters mainly takes place across two time periods. The first is in 2015, a year after the events of Godzilla, when the public first learned of the Titans’ existence. The second is across the 1950s, when key Monarch cast members Wyatt Russell’s Lee Shaw, Anders Holm’s Bill Randa and Mari Yamamoto’s Keiko are researching these giant monsters in secret. This is a particularly tumultuous time for Keiko given that she’s a Japanese woman working as a scientist in the United States not long after World War II ended. Yamamoto informed me that she did “a lot of research” to prepare for this role, and I admire her dedication.
