Fan Casting Robert Nellis in Akira: Part 1

The Secretary of Defense and a former Vanguard executive who secretly restarted the Compound-A program to create psychic weapons. Nellis is not a cartoon villain; he is a craven, avuncular bureaucrat who views "a few Old City junkies" as acceptable collateral damage for American resurgence. His warm, familiar face makes his corruption insidious. When Shackleton turns on him, Nellis crumbles into a terrified, pathetic old man—a coward who ordered the shot that killed Kaori and doomed the city.