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The Partnership: How Nicole Kidman Convinced A Hesitant Lulu Wang To Take The Helm In Prime Video’s ‘Expats’


How Nicole Kidman convinced a hesitant Lulu Wang to take the helm in Prime Video's Emmy-contending series 'Expats.' — The Partnership

Lulu Wang remembers Nicole Kidman spiraling down a psychological rabbit hole in Jonathan Glazer’s 2004 dream-like masterpiece Birth where a woman believes that a 10-year-old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband. Nicole, being able to support me, created this entire network and world of filmmakers, women, people of color who’ve never had the opportunity to be in this space. Let’s go make it.” And that is so rare to find, that kind of esprit of, even though it took a long time, because the world was going through a lot of different challenges, none of the pause or the hesitation was from the team or from the studio.

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