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Robert Downey Jr’s Multiple Roles In ‘The Sympathizer’ Represent “America As A Whole,” Director Park Chan-Wook Reveals
The Oscar winner, fellow cast & creatives from the limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel unveil the vision behind the adaptation
“All right, see you stateside,” says Robert Downey Jr ’s Claude quips with some gallows humor to Hoa Xuande’s The Captain near the end of the first episode of HBO’s The Sympathizer as communist North Vietnamese forces bombard soon-to-fall Saigon in 1975. If the slippery CIA officer was the only role Oscar winner Downey portrays in the Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar co-showrunned multi-genre adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen ’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, it would capture a lot of attention on or off cable. Along with the music fan spymaster and mentor to the Captain, the actor also pops up as a scheming Congressman, an grad school professor and self-absorbed Hollywood director seeking to make the definitive movie in the Vietnam War.
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