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‘The Sympathizer’ Executive Producers Break Down Book-to-Screen Adaptation
'The Sympathizer' executive producers Park Chan-Wook, Susan Downey and Niv Fichman break down how the TV series was made.
So begins Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “ The Sympathizer,” which, when released in 2015, was hailed for its humorous, biting interrogation of American perspectives on the Vietnam War. Framed as a confession to the people for whom he has ostensibly been spying, the narrator — who goes unnamed in the novel — chronicles the story of his journey to Southern California, where he joins the Vietnamese refugee community settling there and grapples with questions of loyalty and assimilation. The prime example of this, he notes, is Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as the four most prominent American characters in the story: a CIA agent, a congressman, a professor and a film director working on a movie that directly riffs on “Apocalypse Now.”
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