Iris (Yi Youn) Kim is a reporter for NBCU Academy's Storytellers.
For “Interior Chinatown” star Jimmy O. Yang, playing an invisible Chinatown extra in the new series hit close to home. That’s because one of Yang’s first roles was “Chinese Teenager #1.” The irony helped him relate to his character, Willis Wu, and plays out in the series about a struggling Chinatown waiter who is pulled into investigating his brother’s disappearance, airing on Hulu on Tuesday.
“We’re shown the facades, the Chinese words, the kitschy restaurants, but what you don’t usually see is behind the scenes,” he said. Meanwhile, Chieng’s character, Fatty Choi, remains a defender of Chinatown. Though Willis learns to jump between the worlds of “Black and White” and Chinatown, Fatty stubbornly refuses to leave the Chinese restaurant where the two friends work. “ represents this idea of not pandering to a white society that doesn’t even see you or want you around,” Chieng said.
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