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How ‘The Sympathizer’s’ Depiction of the Vietnam War Helped Its Cast Make Sense of Their Heritage
As 'The Sympathizer' premieres on HBO, its cast reflects on how the show's perspective on the Vietnam War resonates with their own family histories.
“The Sympathizer,” which premieres on HBO and Max on April 14, is based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 novel of the same, which won a Pulitzer Prize and is widely lauded for inverting the perspective on the war that American media typically privileges. While the government has never issued an official ban, his inability thus far to penetrate the bureaucracy, saying it’s “clear” that “the enormous hurdles” he’s faced trying to get “The Sympathizer” into the country are political in nature. In one episode, the Captain works as a cultural consultant on the set of Hollywood film about the war with a not-so-subtle resemblance to Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.”
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