Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Sympathizer,' reflects on the significance of the HBO adaptation and the scale of its promotion.
Hoa Xuande as the Captain in the new HBO limited-series “ The Sympathizer ,” based on Viet Thanh Nguyen ’s Pulitzer Prize -winning novel of the same name. to the screen, but it wasn’t until a recent cruise down the Hollywood Freeway that he realized what a big deal the HBO adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize -winning novel truly is.
Hoa Xuande as the Captain and Robert Downey Jr. as Claude the CIA agent in the new HBO limited-series “The Sympathizer,” based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer” arrives as a limited series on HBO on Sunday, April 14, 2024. Seen here are executive producer Susan Downey, left, Robert Downey Jr., executive producer and supporting actor, center, and co-creator and showrunner Don McKellar, right.
Hoa Xuande as the Captain in the new HBO limited-series “The Sympathizer,” based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. “The Sympathizer” is the story of The Captain, a South Vietnamese spy for the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, a man of two minds, as he says of himself in the novel, whose communist leanings push against his fondness for the United States where he’d studied before the war.
He also mentioned Sandra Oh as a possible choice for Ms. Mori, and McKellar, a close friend of Oh’s, reached out and got her on board. “But when the screen experience works, it can be really incredible, and I think it does work in this series.”“The degree of excitement that this TV series has generated amongst book people is is interesting,” he says. “It’s a little bit humbling, like, ‘OK, well, I did publish a book, and people were excited about that.’ But not at this level.
“I thought, ‘OK, it’s probably several months that we hear whether or not ,” Duyen says. “An hour later, my agent told me you got the role, and I started to realize how big this thing is.” “That night, you can imagine, I was overwhelmed with sadness, scared, and tears keep coming out to my eyes,” she says. “My heart was beating fast and I had a heavy feeling. I just relived my past.”As a prestige TV series, “The Sympathizer” is made to entertain, and it does that with the multilayered storylines that stretch from The Captain’s present into his future and his past.
Susan Downey said she and Robert Downey Jr. were drawn to the project by that same fresh perspective. Duyen noted that the series mocks the hawkish Americans who pushed for the war, but also satirizes the Vietnamese political and military leadership whose actions led to the downfall of South Vietnam.
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