Expats
Events of the Week: ‘Expats,’ ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ and More
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Expats, Feud: Capote vs. the Swans and Griselda. Expats premiere Nicole Kidman joined creator Lulu Wang and co-stars Sarayu Blue and Jack Huston at the New York premiere of their Prime Video series on Sunday. […]
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‘Expats’ Review: Nicole Kidman in Lulu Wang’s Rewardingly Messy Hong Kong-Set Amazon Series
Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yoo co-star in the adaptation of Janice Y.K. Lee's novel about three American women in Hong Kong struggling to move on after a tragedy.
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With Nicole Kidman’s ‘Expats,’ Creator Lulu Wang Finally Has a Project Her Mother Likes
Scribbled on a chalkboard in director Lulu Wang’s kitchen is a list of films and TV shows she and her partner, Barry Jenkins, have yet to see. As is tradition, their friends, many of them fellow filmmakers, come through their Silver Lake home and jot down suggestions for the pair. On this morning, the list […]
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‘Expats’ Trailer Sees Nicole Kidman’s Privileged Life in Hong Kong Spiral Out of Control
The first trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s Hong Kong-set Expats has dropped, and we get our clearest look at the Lulu Wang-directed drama based on the bestselling novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee. In the clip, we see three American women living in Hong Kong during 2014, a year when the city was […]
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Hong Kong Government Defends Granting Nicole Kidman Quarantine Exemption Amid Backlash
The Hong Kong government defended its decision to allow Nicole Kidman to enter the city without being subject to its strict hotel quarantine, suggesting that it had “struck a balance” between helping the Oscar-winning actress and maintaining its quarantine measures. Speaking to the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong commerce secretary Edward Yau Tang-wah revealed […]
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Nicole Kidman Slammed After Skipping Hong Kong Quarantine for Amazon’s ‘Expats’ Shoot
Nicole Kidman has sparked a backlash in Hong Kong after skipping the country’s strict COVID-19 quarantine to shoot the Amazon series Expats in the city. According to local news site HK01, Kidman took a private jet from Sydney to Hong Kong on Aug. 12 and was exempted from the city’s seven-day hotel quarantine for vaccinated people […]
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‘The Farewell’s’ Lulu Wang Books Next Project: Amazon’s Nicole Kidman Drama Series (Exclusive)
Lulu Wang, the filmmaker behind the summer box office breakout 'The Farewell,' has boarded the Amazon original series 'The Expatriates' as a writer, director and executive producer.
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Nicole Kidman Drama ‘The Expatriates’ Scores Amazon Series Pickup
Amazon has handed out a straight-to-series order for 'The Expatriates,' based on the book by Janice Y.K. Lee and from executive producer Nicole Kidman.
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