[Only IN Hollywood] A lot of Robert Downey Jr., Vietnamese actors bring ‘The Sympathizer’ to life

In Park Chan-wook's series adaptation, lead star Hoa Xuande engages veteran actor Robert Downey Jr., who dazzlingly plays multiple characters – a filmmaker, a CIA operative, a professor, and a congressman in their scenes together

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.In Park Chan-wook's series adaptation, lead star Hoa Xuande engages veteran actor Robert Downey Jr., who dazzlingly plays multiple characters – a filmmaker, a CIA operative, a professor, and a congressman in their scenes together

JACKPOT. ‘It felt like I won the lottery,’ Hoa Xuande says about landing the role of a lifetime in ‘The Sympathizer.’ HBO GO, which is also a biting cross-cultural satire of the Hollywoodization of the Vietnam conflict, in a series of video interviews.

“A month after that, I flew to LA to do the final callback. A month after that, because I didn’t hear anything the whole time, I let go of this project. I let go so many times. Then I came back to it and let go of it again,” Hoa said. “September 21 of that year was when I finally got the Zoom call that I got the role and I couldn’t believe it.”Viewers will see Robert Downey Jr.

“And we were talking about how they all have similar relationships with The Captain. They’re all mentors but unreliable mentors and they’re all a little patronizing and slightly absurd. We were talking about how it was important thematically to show that they were all interdependent in some way and that there was a point for the repetition. So instead of it seeming repetitive, we wanted to show that they were interdependent and that they were intertwined,” he said.

“But he was top of our list and one of the very few actors who could do it or who made sense. He was immediately into it and he took it very seriously. I had long conversations about his personal influences on all the characters and how he wanted to ground them. He was in pretty deep right from the start.”

“I could go on and on about all the things that were appealing to us but it just seemed like the right group of people telling a story that hadn’t been told. And that’s what we’re always looking for, a new opportunity to break new ground, to do something that is a little bit scary, a little bit like, are we gonna regret this? Or it’s the high degree of difficulty that is always important to us,” she added.

Don recounted: “When I first talked to Viet, his biggest concern was the voice of the book. And his feeling is that the voice of the book is very unique and that’s why it was successful. And I agree. There’s something very bracing about the voice. It’s challenging, fearless and intelligent, very literary, very pop-cultural savvy.”

for the first time to Viet who is now a professor at the University of Southern California and is the first Asian-American member of the Pulitzer Prize Board? “I was very nervous,” Don replied. “I talked to him right at the beginning of the series. He was very excited and engaged.” “So, he loved the series. He was excited when he saw it. He was surprised, he wrote me these big letters. So, it was a huge relief when he finally saw them. I was very honored that he saw his book in this show. He noticed every change and he told me about them. But some of them he definitely has said, boy, I wish I thought of that at the time. Maybe he’s just saying that to us to make us feel good.

“So maybe those parallels will die but I have a feeling they’re going to live on for a long time. Even in the wars that have happened since, in the Ukraine and Gaza, I can think of pretty obvious parallels.” “When I told Viet we weren’t going to shoot it in the Philippines, we were going to do it in California, he said, oh, but I miss it because it brings the Philippines and it’s another country I didn’t touch on. I wanted to bring all of Asia in there.”

“And when I researched The Captain, just trying to get deep to the core of the emotional psychology and the beliefs and what it was that I wanted to hang on to, I found so many other stories in the depths of the web that moved me. People who were down in the trenches fighting that you never heard about. The civilians were just moving about trying to survive, not wanting to be involved in the conflict in any way but couldn’t help but be just obviously torn apart.

“Then I’d work towards his thing but also be able to trust myself enough to do my thing and then we were just doing one take by the end of it. It was a surreal dance and experience,” he said. is the first and only major Hollywood production to feature the biggest cast of actors of Vietnamese heritage.

“These actors had to speak Vietnamese; they had to speak English, in most cases. And so, there was a narrow band of people that were available for each particular role and sometimes it was very obvious and sometimes it was it was harder but we were all together on that. It took over a year to do and we found some incredible people that are going to be known to the world now.”

“That is something they had never done before in their career. And it was an opportunity I don’t think they even felt was possible. And so, it was exciting.” “But it was the first time I got exposed to the other side of the war that I had never been taught about in Vietnam. It was from a completely different perspective. It blew my mind. I had to read it 10 times to understand it. It’s a life-changing novel,” he added.“He asked me to be the reader for his audition. At first, I thought it was a scam . No way – HBO, A24, director Park Chan-woo, Robert Downey Jr., Vietnamese lead show. Way too good to be true. But it turns out we’re here so it’s real.

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