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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Team Downey keeps their success streak with HBO going with The Sympathizer. The production banner headed by Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr. first teamed up with the premium network for the Perry Mason revival/reboot, in which the Oscar winner was set to star before reverting to just an executive producer due to scheduling issues.
Being Outsiders To The Vietnamese Experience "Hung Over" Downey & Fichman Though only in the executive producer chairs, Downey and Fichman were key figures in getting The Sympathizer off the ground and didn't take being outsiders to the Vietnamese experience lightly, with the former even noting that it "hung over us the entire time".
The Sympathizer Took A Unique Journey To Get To Downey & Fichman After being published nearly a decade ago, the ball began rolling on The Sympathizer coming to the screen in 2021 when Fichman was introduced to the book by Vietnamese actor/producer Kim Lee.
So, it wasn't just a gimmick, but you have this incredible acting opportunity for him. And from a producing side, to be part of this really talented group of filmmakers, and to take on an extremely challenging piece of material that forced us to look at something from a very different perspective, it was just new territory for us across the board. And as a result, we were leaning in.
And then, we kind of recognized episode 4 as a bottle episode, and you had a relationship with Fernando. We knew we needed to have kind of a different, frenetic sort of twist to it. And then for the last three, Mark was just an incredible filmmaker who was really going to allow Director Park's vision to be pushed through his lens.
But for Robert, I think he loved kind of the send up of the somewhat absurd, disgusting male American. It's these pillars of the patriarchy, from the art and media, to government, to the military to education. And I think he wanted to imbue certain characters more so than others with a real sense of humanity and depth. But he and Director Park really calibrated those performances in the look and the sound of the guys to have it slightly heightened, as it is the perception of the Captain.
Susan Downey: Well, we hope, first and foremost, that they are leaning in, because it's entertaining, it's a place that they want to return to weekly, which is always really important. Even if you're dealing with heavy subject matter, or dark subject matter, you want to find a way to make it something that, again, as HBO does, they drop it once a week, you want people to return, so you start there.
It's very beautiful, but now it's turning, and for the first time in Canada, we have an alternate, uglier voice that is speaking against that. So I just think, you know, in this case, the immigrant experience is so prominent, and I'm hoping that Americans and people all over the world can see this and see this as an example of a community that has come, not by choice, to America that has kind of thrived here. And is now a massive American community, 50 years later.
In the book, the Captain just goes there, and then all the others disappear for a while, for a whole chapter. Whereas in our case, we were able to keep them all there, which I think makes for a lot of the fun, and continues the series. Viet, when he heard that, thought, "Oh, God, I should have done that myself." So, I think we have his stamp of approval.
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