In the new issue of AnOther Magazine, the director behind The Farewell and Expats talks about her love of the late photographer Ren Hang
Born in China, raised in Miami and now a Los Angeleno, Lulu Wang is drawn to stories that grapple with identity and belonging — most recently Expats, a six-part series based on Janice YK Lee’s bestselling novel The Expatriates, which brims with secrets, lies and knotty power dynamics. Executive produced by and starring Nicole Kidman, the show delves into the lives of a handful of entitled foreigners whose sleek existence on Hong Kong’s airy Peak is breached by an unspeakable tragedy.
Wang brings similar nuance to Expats, a loaded title she approaches by telling the stories of both the privileged westerners and the maids, nannies and chauffeurs hired to smooth their paths, weaving a textured, panoramic portrait of the rain-soaked city that upends easy caricatures and finds humour in pitch-dark places. “Maybe that’s my cultural background,” she says. “Chinese people are incredibly funny, often because of so many hardships and generational trauma.
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