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“My aim is always to support the characters, so I don’t want to distract from the story. But we’re showing a lot of Hong Kong, so I also wanted to show Hong Kong in the right perspective,” the production designer said. I will explain. Lee Young Ok About the set design for Amazon Prime Video’s limited series “Expats”. In a recent web chat, the Korean-American designer added: “I’m not Cantonese. I don’t know their culture,” she said, adding, “I’ve done a lot of background research on Hong Kong’s politics, society and economy, but I also have a foreigner’s perspective and… We also wanted to see if there was a balance between the local perspectives. It’s all about Hong Kong locals, but it’s also about expatriates from their perspective.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.
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‘Expats’ was produced and directed by BAFTA nominee Lulu Wang (“The Farewell”), based on the 2016 novel “The Expatriates” Janice Y.K. Lee. The six-episode drama revolves around three expatriate women and the people in their lives.Oscar and Emmy Award Winners nicole kidman (The Hours, Big Little Lies) plays Margaret, an American expat living in Hong Kong when tragedy befalls her family.Series co-star Sarayu Blue Margaret’s neighbor Hilary is struggling with her domineering parents and her inability to conceive. Yoo Ji Young You play Marcy, a troubled Korean expatriate who befriends Margaret after a chance encounter. jack huston (Boardwalk Empire) as David, Hilary’s unfaithful husband; Brian Tee (“Chicago Med”) Starring as Clark, Margaret’s grief-stricken husband.
The series is set in the midst of the protests that engulfed Hong Kong in 2014 and explores the impact of grief and loss on this group living far from home. As a production designer, Lee was tasked with accurately portraying Hong Kong as it was 10 years ago, but due to the pandemic, he had to return to the U.S. Filming part of the show in Los Angeles, the production designer said. Well, it was all part of a big project for the movie. creative team. By the series’ pivotal fourth episode, Margaret and Clark find themselves in a morgue on the mainland. According to Lee, it was one of her most deceptively complex sets she created. These scenes are intentionally brutal and disturbing, in part (and perhaps unconsciously) due to Lee’s attention to detail, making the morgue a bleak, harsh and unfriendly environment. , depicting it as a nightmare for desperate parents looking for answers. Lee said she focused more on making the audience feel uncomfortable and uneasy than on realism. “We created a maze-like space,” she says of the set, which includes existing locations and buildings. There are two waiting rooms, then a short hallway, and then a refrigerator room,” she said, explaining that the audience may feel just as lost and confused as the characters, who expect the worst.
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