HBO has set the main cast for “The Sympathizer” following a worldwide online open casting call and an extensive search across the United States, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, and Vietnam.
Hoa Xuande (“Cowboy Bebop”) will star in the post-Vietnam war thriller as the series’ main character. Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Vy Le and Alan Trong will round out the cast. All five actors are of Vietnamese descent.
Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel of the same name, the satirical drama is said to “examine the hardships of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States.”
Xuande will portray the Captain, described as “a spy for North Vietnam embedded in the refugee community in Los Angeles. Caught between his conflicting loyalties, he’ll ultimately have to decide what it means to sympathize.”
Khan (“Fatherhood”) will star as Bon,...
Hoa Xuande (“Cowboy Bebop”) will star in the post-Vietnam war thriller as the series’ main character. Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Vy Le and Alan Trong will round out the cast. All five actors are of Vietnamese descent.
Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel of the same name, the satirical drama is said to “examine the hardships of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States.”
Xuande will portray the Captain, described as “a spy for North Vietnam embedded in the refugee community in Los Angeles. Caught between his conflicting loyalties, he’ll ultimately have to decide what it means to sympathize.”
Khan (“Fatherhood”) will star as Bon,...
- 11/9/2022
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
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