Sonoya Mizuno has been, how can I put this... ‘shat’ upon. Some leaky spar­row shit, to be pre­cise, which sits cen­tre stage on her navy trousers. It’s a warm lateSeptem­ber morn­ing, and we’re seated out­side a café in New York City’s East Vil­lage. As the 33-year-old ac­tor qui­etly ex­cuses her­self to clean up in the bath­room with a good-na­tured shrug, the feath­ered cul­prit dances around us. ‘It’s sup­posed to be good luck, right?’ she asks. Many will re­mem­ber Mizuno as the bride in Crazy Rich Asians, which grossed £178.4 mil­lion world­wide at the box of­fice, mak­ing it the high­est-gross­ing ro­man­tic com­edy of the past 1O years. Or per­haps you’ll re­call her as the danc­ing best friend in the open­ing se­quence of Damien Chazelle’s La La Land? Or the awk­ward, chain-smok­ing Dr Fu­jita in Net­flix’s sci-fi ex­trav­a­ganza Maniac, in which she starred along­side Jonah Hill and Emma Stone? But long be­fore all that, Mizuno started out as a model, work­ing for all the big houses, in­clud­ing Chanel, Alexan­der McQueen, Saint Laurent and Louis Vuit­ton. She then went