The Sympathizer
Craft Considerations
Watch how the cinematography, production design, and costume design of the HBO limited series all create a world in which The Captain cannot rest.
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"The Sympathizer" star Hoa Xuande tells IndieWire that he began to think his months-long audition was to prove "that I can handle the trauma and the devastation towards the end of this show."
DOWNEY THE SHAPE SHIFTER
Inside the creation of Downey's fifth and final character on the HBO drama.
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
After gut-churning torture scenes and eye-opening revelations, Episode 7 ultimately offers limited resolution. But there's immense personal significance in The Captain's attempt to restart.
Downey the Shape Shifter
The makeup and hair team tells IndieWire how the CIA operative, East Asian professor, congressman, and auteur director were all unique yet still identifiable as Downey.
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Downey plays not one, but four characters in Park Chan-wook's HBO series, all of whom come together in a standout Episode 3 scene.
Park Chan-wook's HBO adaptation is ultimately very faithful to the Pulitzer-winning novel, but with concessions made to the new medium.
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Park tells IndieWire about his decision to direct some but not all of the HBO limited series, and the fascinating framing of the season that honors the bestselling book.
The newly-minted Oscar winner explained that his freewheeling role in "The Sympathizer" was a needed change of pace after the precise experience of working with Christopher Nolan.
With Robert Downey Jr. as The Americans
Adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, HBO's sprawling, black-comic limited series follows a communist spy sent to America at the end of the Vietnam War.
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The "Oppenheimer" Oscar winner plays multiple roles in the Park Chan-wook series.
Don McKellar co-showruns the HBO series set against the last days of the Vietnam War and also starring Sandra Oh.
