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Nicole Kidman’s Hong Kong-Set Series ‘Expats’ Isn’t Available to Watch in the City, Revealing Regrets and Red Lines
Nicole Kidman’s ‘Expats’ won't be shown in Hong Kong, where it was made and is set, a move that highlights the city's media and entertainment context.
The anti-government defiance was met with brute force, partially stifled by the arrival of COVID and was firmly put to bed in July 2020 when Beijing injected national security laws directly into Hong Kong’s mini constitution. Funding body The Hong Kong Arts Development Council later explained that last year’s awards may have “directly or indirectly harmed or had a negative effect” by involving Zunzi and a freelance journalist who has challenged the police narrative of 2019. The Hong Kong government this week began the process of introducing its own layer of security laws, known as Article 23, which are expected to cover treason; “insurrection, incitement to mutiny and disaffection, and acts with seditious intention”; theft of state secrets and espionage; sabotage; and external interference.
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