Expats
‘Expats’ Creator Lulu Wang on Giving Background Players Main Character Energy
When Lulu Wang read Janice Y.K. Lee’s best-selling novel The Expatriates, she immediately knew she wanted to explore the periphery of the titular characters’ “bubble” in her limited series adaptation for Prime Video: “We had to step outside and see them through other lenses in order to understand the context.” With the blessing of Lee […]
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Nicole Kidman Wanted to “Have Fun” in ‘A Family Affair’ After ‘Expats’ “Took So Much Out of My Soul”
After a recent string of dramatic projects that included The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers, Lioness and Expats, Nicole Kidman just wants to have some fun. The actress stars alongside Zac Efron and Joey King in Netflix rom-com A Family Affair, playing King’s mother who begins a relationship with King’s movie star boss (Efron). At the […]
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Why Learning to Be Left-Handed Created Tension for ‘Expats’ Star
What happens when you give Ji-young Yoo too much time to prepare for a role in the middleof a pandemic? “I did ridiculous [stuff] like learning to do things with my left hand,” says Yoo, who in her television debut stars opposite Nicole Kidman in the Prime Video limited series Expats. Her character, Mercy — an […]
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Mariska Hargitay, Peter Morgan and Lulu Wang Tapped for Gotham TV Awards Tributes
Mariska Hargitay, Peter Morgan and Lulu Wang are set to be honored at the inaugural Gotham TV Awards ceremony on June 4. Hargitay will receive the Anniversary Tribute for her work on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Hargitay has played Captain Olivia Benson in more than 550 episodes. In addition to honoring Hargitay’s career, […]
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In ‘Expats,’ Stalwart Actors of Color Finally Have the Opportunity to Show Their Range
There’s a very specific emotion I felt while watching Expats, Lulu Wang’s drama series about American expatriates in Hong Kong: frustration. There was also admiration, of course, and enjoyment and suspense, but at some point, while watching the performances of Sarayu Blue and Brian Tee, the indignation set in: We could have been seeing them do […]
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Critics’ Conversation: Winter TV’s Wicked Games
THR’s TV critics weigh in on a conspicuously murderous past few months of small-screen offerings, with a wide range of whodunits dominating the landscape — and a few refreshing exceptions to the rule (thank you, Max’s Sort Of!).
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‘Expats’ Episode Puts the Spotlight on Hong Kong’s Domestic Underclass
[This story contains spoilers through the fifth episode of Expats, “Central.”] A show called Expats understandably focuses on the cosmopolitan lives of those privileged enough to make their fortunes abroad, and for most of the Amazon limited series’ six episodes, it does just that, following neighbors Margaret (Nicole Kidman) and Hilary (Sarayu Blue). The two […]
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Events of the Week: ‘Expats,’ ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ and More
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Expats, Feud: Capote vs. the Swans and Griselda. Expats premiere Nicole Kidman joined creator Lulu Wang and co-stars Sarayu Blue and Jack Huston at the New York premiere of their Prime Video series on Sunday. […]
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‘Expats’ Review: Nicole Kidman in Lulu Wang’s Rewardingly Messy Hong Kong-Set Amazon Series
Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yoo co-star in the adaptation of Janice Y.K. Lee's novel about three American women in Hong Kong struggling to move on after a tragedy.
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With Nicole Kidman’s ‘Expats,’ Creator Lulu Wang Finally Has a Project Her Mother Likes
Scribbled on a chalkboard in director Lulu Wang’s kitchen is a list of films and TV shows she and her partner, Barry Jenkins, have yet to see. As is tradition, their friends, many of them fellow filmmakers, come through their Silver Lake home and jot down suggestions for the pair. On this morning, the list […]
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‘Expats’ Trailer Sees Nicole Kidman’s Privileged Life in Hong Kong Spiral Out of Control
The first trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s Hong Kong-set Expats has dropped, and we get our clearest look at the Lulu Wang-directed drama based on the bestselling novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee. In the clip, we see three American women living in Hong Kong during 2014, a year when the city was […]
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Hong Kong Government Defends Granting Nicole Kidman Quarantine Exemption Amid Backlash
The Hong Kong government defended its decision to allow Nicole Kidman to enter the city without being subject to its strict hotel quarantine, suggesting that it had “struck a balance” between helping the Oscar-winning actress and maintaining its quarantine measures. Speaking to the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong commerce secretary Edward Yau Tang-wah revealed […]
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