Despite its studio backing and budget, 'Expats' let Nicole Kidman and Lulu Wang go indie

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Despite its studio backing and budget, 'Expats' let Nicole Kidman and Lulu Wang go indie
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How did the actor-producer persuade the writer-director to come on board? “What I tried to say is, ‘What the hell? Let’s just go for it,'” Kidman says.

Back when 'Expats' showrunner and director Lulu Wang was an indie filmmaker promoting “The Farewell,” the 2019 hit that she wrote and directed, her agent reached out to her. Nicole Kidman wanted to know if Wang was interested in adapting “The Expatriates,” Janice Y.K. Lee’s novel about three American women living in Hong Kong, into a series for Prime Video. Wang politely declined.

” As it happens, the sequence they were about to shoot takes place in the second episode of “Expats,” and explains a pivotal tragedy in the story that is only hinted at in the first installment: Yoo’s Mercy, in position to be hired as Margaret's nanny, is distractedly texting in a congested outdoor market when she loses track of Gus, Margaret’s youngest son.

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