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‘Half your performance is in the other actor.’ 6 actors on representation, inhabiting characters and flop sweat
6 months, 1 week ago

‘Half your performance is in the other actor.’ 6 actors on representation, inhabiting characters and flop sweat

LA Times  

There are outstanding professionals in any field — people who are admired for their insights, their intelligence and pure skill. But if you’re doing something that’s kind of morose, it’s just like, “Bring me to the set and my chair,” you know? Hollander: You said that you feel like you’re an introvert in real life, but do you sometimes get …

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‘The Sympathizer’ author reveals the ‘red line’ he wouldn’t let HBO series cross
6 months, 3 weeks ago

‘The Sympathizer’ author reveals the ‘red line’ he wouldn’t let HBO series cross

LA Times  

In the Emmy-season premiere of The Envelope video podcast, we sit down with Maya Erskine, star of Amazon Prime Video’s acclaimed reimagination of “Mr. Even with Donald, the way they’ve described working on “Atlanta,” they weren’t big budgets, so it always felt like students coming together to like make their project and make something happen. Olsen: Donald’s mother plays his …

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The Sympathizer, review: Vietnam war spy series the most fun Robert Downey Jr has been in a decade
6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Sympathizer, review: Vietnam war spy series the most fun Robert Downey Jr has been in a decade

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Peter Sellersian gimmick casts the Iron Man star …

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Actor "Sympathizer" Soldier Spy: How Australia's Hoa Xuande became the ultimate double agent
7 months, 1 week ago

Actor "Sympathizer" Soldier Spy: How Australia's Hoa Xuande became the ultimate double agent

Salon  

Hoa Xuande has been waiting to get some good lines. It all comes down to language in "The Sympathizer," in which Xuande plays Captain, a bilingual double agent whose ability to speak fluent Vietnamese and English makes him an invaluable asset for everyone he encounters. Robert Downey Jr. in "The Sympathizer" As those who technically lost the war, it's the …

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"Sometimes I would push away our audience": "The Sympathizer" director Park Chan-wook feels for us
8 months ago

"Sometimes I would push away our audience": "The Sympathizer" director Park Chan-wook feels for us

Salon  

South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook wants us to picture fireworks while watching “The Sympathizer.” That image inspires his visual interpretation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 novel and as he explains to me through an interpreter, it recurs time and again onscreen. “The Sympathizer” enters the Captain’s story nearly a year into his imprisonment, and many drafts into writing …

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‘The Sympathizer’ depicts war from a Vietnamese point of view, but how does the community see it?
8 months ago

‘The Sympathizer’ depicts war from a Vietnamese point of view, but how does the community see it?

LA Times  

Hoa Xuande in the closing scenes of Episode 1 of “The Sympathizer.” The series and how it depicts the Vietnam War have been a topic of discussion in California’s Vietnamese community. Never before has a television series garnered so much excitement, attention and concern among California’s expatriate Vietnamese community, the world’s largest, as “The Sympathizer.” HBO’s seven-part espionage thriller depicting …

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Kieu Chinh, star of The Sympathizer and The Joy Luck Club, reflects on her 50-year career in Hollywood
8 months ago

Kieu Chinh, star of The Sympathizer and The Joy Luck Club, reflects on her 50-year career in Hollywood

ABC  

In LA recently, Kieu Chinh saw something she'd never seen before: an enormous billboard on Sunset Boulevard emblazoned with the face of a Vietnamese actor, with the name of a Vietnamese author printed underneath. It was a proud moment for Chinh, the 86-year-old actor best known for her role in the 1993 film The Joy Luck Club. "It's the first …

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The Sympathizer Review: A potent spy series with star-making turn from Hoa Xuande
8 months ago

The Sympathizer Review: A potent spy series with star-making turn from Hoa Xuande

India Today  

The protagonist of Park Chan-wook's latest HBO series, The Sympathizer, is self-admittedly 'a synthesis of incompatibilities.' Centred around the Vietnam war, we see this layered story via our unreliable narrator, played brilliantly by Xuande. However, initially, we see Captain working for the General and the South Vietnam, with the American support, which has been charismatically portrayed by Hollywood superstar Robert …

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New HBO series looks at Vietnam War from Vietnamese perspective
8 months, 1 week ago

New HBO series looks at Vietnam War from Vietnamese perspective

NPR  

New HBO series looks at Vietnam War from Vietnamese perspective NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with actor Hoa Xuande about the new HBO show 'The Sympathizer' — a rare piece of Hollywood entertainment that tells the story of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The new HBO show "The Sympathizer" is a rare piece of Hollywood entertainment …

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HBO's "The Sympathizer" is an enthralling sift through identity, memory and Vietnam after the war
8 months, 1 week ago

HBO's "The Sympathizer" is an enthralling sift through identity, memory and Vietnam after the war

Salon  

War blurs clean-cut reasoning despite the concrete "one versus another" description. "The Sympathizer" reminds us of this in its opening frames, presented in the style of aged celluloid dated to the New Hollywood era alongside text that reads, "In America it is called the Vietnam War. Robert Downey Jr. in "The Sympathizer" But our untrustworthy hero is also a double …

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'The Sympathizer’ Review: HBO Watered-Down The Book
8 months, 1 week ago

'The Sympathizer’ Review: HBO Watered-Down The Book

Huff Post  

Robert Downey Jr., left, and Hoa Xuande appear in HBO's "The Sympathizer." Like in the miniseries’ source material — Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name — this fictional Hollywood production bears a strong resemblance to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic, “Apocalypse Now.” The novel and series’ unnamed protagonist is an adviser on the movie, …

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‘The Sympathizer’ teaser trailer: Robert Downey Jr., Hoa Xuande headline Park Chan Wook’s spy saga
10 months, 1 week ago

‘The Sympathizer’ teaser trailer: Robert Downey Jr., Hoa Xuande headline Park Chan Wook’s spy saga

The Hindu  

Robert Downey Jr. is a many-faced spymaster in the new trailer for Park Chan Wook’s The Sympathizer. The upcoming HBO Max miniseries is adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel of the same title. “Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Sympathizer is an espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles …

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Piecing together the precious porcelain past
1 year, 4 months ago

Piecing together the precious porcelain past

China Daily  

Restored ceramics found at the former site of the Imperial Kiln, in Jingdezhen, present a variety of styles, forms, colored enamels and decorative motifs. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY He also mentions about a couple of restored blue and white ceramic cricket jars from the time of Emperor Xuande. He says that only two other such objects are known to exist today, …

What's on
3 years, 9 months ago

What's on

China Daily  

Incense sensibility Burning incense has a long history in China. In times gone by, people burned fragrant plants at rituals in the hope that the smoke and its pleasant aroma would connect with their ancestors and the ethereal plane where deities reside. Then gradually, incense became one of the commodities that bridged China with the world and a product to …

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