Nicole Kidman is making her tribute a family affair!
14.04.2024 - 20:13 / deadline.com
When actress-producer Nicole Kidman and filmmaker Lulu Wang set out to produce Expats, a miniseries adaptation of the novel The Expatriates, for Prime Video, they were committed to building both an acting ensemble and a writers room that would bolster the female-driven vision behind the project.
Speaking via satellite from Nashville, Kidman joined Wang and castmates Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yoo at Deadline’s Contenders Television and revealed that she was immediately struck by the novel’s focus on its female characters and shined light on subjects that a diverse array of women face but receive little public discourse or attention.
“The themes of the show and the way in which it’s women, complicated women, but it’s very diverse and it’s very interesting and it’s very interconnected and the way we’re all interconnected. And I loved that it was a global show and that it was very, very relevant,” said Kidman. “So all the things that you go, ‘Okay, this is something worth fighting for.’ ”
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Kidman revealed that she immediately zeroed on Wang to lead the effort after viewing her 2019 film The Farewell. “I saw The Farewell and was completely enraptured by it,” she recalled. “I saw it and went, ‘There she is. There’s our creator, so we have to pursue her.’ And I did. Subsequently, she then took the piece and said, ‘Okay, here’s the book. Now I want to make it mine. There’s huge aspects to each storyline that I want to change and grow.’ And she is the voice of all of us. She was to put together a fantastic writers room and it’s a very, very strong female vision and female voice.”
Wang appreciated the freedom she was given to shape and mold the source material. “I have to thank
Nicole Kidman is making her tribute a family affair!
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