Lulu Wang Expats Interview: Going from The Farewell to Prime Video Series

The Farewell director Lulu Wang unveiled part of her next project at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Rather than return to the big screen with another feature film, Wang opted to take on a production that’s the equivalent of six movies. She’s the creator behind the upcoming Prime Video limited series Expats.

Based on Janice Y. K. Lee’s 2016 novel The Expatriates, Wang’s six-part series focuses on three American women living in Hong Kong in 2014 whose lives are suddenly connected via tragedy. Rather than screen the first part of that story at TIFF 2023, Wang opted to share the series’ penultimate episode, “Central,” which shifts the focus from the expats to two Filipina domestic workers played by Ruby Ruiz and Amelyn Pardenilla.

While celebrating Expats’ debut at the festival, Wang visited the Collider media studio at the Cinema Center at MARBL to discuss her experience going from The Farewell to making an ambitious limited series with Prime Video and producer-star Nicole Kidman. Check out this TIFF interview to hear about how Expats helped Wang tackle her post-Farewell imposter syndrome, what it was liking making a series with Nicole Kidman at her back, what she learned about her own voice as a storyteller via Expats, and loads more! 

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