Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Obviously, Team Downey is a feature company and a television company, and our television business has mostly been without Robert ...

HBO’s “The Sympathizer” closed out the final moments of its premiere, titled “Death Wish,” with a visually stunning escape sequence, in which The Captain (Hoa Xuande) and his friend Bon (Fred Nguyen ...

Note: The following story contains spoilers from “The Sympathizer” Episode 3. When Don McKellar and Park Chan-wook were developing HBO’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Sympathizer,” the pair ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For some context, in the book-to-screen adaptation of The Sympathizer, The Captain goes out to ...

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Episode 3 of “The Sympathizer” on HBO. Phanxine isn’t an actor. Or so he says, though one might beg to differ after seeing his performance in “Love ...

SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers for “Endings Are Hard, Aren’t They?,” the series finale of “The Sympathizer” on HBO. Robert Downey Jr. may have played five different ...

Several Vietnamese members of the cast personally experienced the fall of Saigon. For others, the HBO limited series was a learning opportunity, and chance to help their families and communities heal ...

NEW YORK, May 26 (UPI) --Grey's Anatomy, Sideways and Killing Eve actress Sandra Oh says Robert Downey Jr. was fearless in his portrayals of distinctly despicable characters in the Max adaptation of ...

"The Sympathizer" star Hoa Xuande tells IndieWire that he began to think his months-long audition was to prove "that I can handle the trauma and the devastation towards the end of this show." In the ...

For Australian Vietnamese actor Hoa Xuande, the Vietnam War was a compilation of incredibly sad yet impactful stories shared by family members that up until recently, he didn’t fully understand. But ...

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with culture writer Daniel Chin about how the new HBO series The Sympathizer differs from other Hollywood depictions of the Vietnam War. Hollywood has helped inform ...

When prosthetic makeup designer Vincent Van Dyke first met with Robert Downey Jr., the two men somewhat immediately hit it off. And good thing, too, since just a couple of days later, Van Dyke heard ...