Interior Chinatown Trailer: Agent Chloe Bennet Recruits Jimmy O. Yang To Solve A Mind-Bending Mystery
Chloe Bennet's mysterious government agent draws Jimmy O. Yang's mild-mannered waiter into a mind-bending mystery, in the trailer for Hulu's Interior Chinatown adaptation.
"Why do I keep getting cast as government agents?" Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. vet Bennet remarked at the summer TCA press tour, while promoting this series. "I have GED from a parking lot in Santa Monica."
Based on Charles Yu's award-winning book of the same name, which was published in screenplay format (ergo its title), Interior Chinatown follows Yang's Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural titled Black & White.
Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables and aspiring to be the lead of his own story. But when Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime" triggering the arrival of Bennet's Lana Lee, "he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown," the series overview reads, "while discovering his own family's buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight."
If the whatever-within-a TV show-within-a-TV show sounds wildly meta, rest assured that Yu, who wrote the book, served as showrunner to bring his multi-layered narrative to live-action life.
"Thank Buddha that the guy who wrote the book is showrunning the show," cast member Ronny Chieng said at TCA. "It's a complicated book that, luckily, the person who fully understands it is the person who's translating it to TV."
In addition to Bennet and Crazy Rich Asian castmates Yang (Silicon Valley) and Chieng (The Daily Show), the Interior Chinatown cast also includes Lisa Gilroy (Glamorous), Sullivan Jones (The Gilded Age), Archie Kao (Global TV's My Dear Boy) and Diana Lin (Australia's The Family Law).
Interior Chinatown drops all 10 episodes on Tuesday, Nov. 19.
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