Hulu poster artwork of Jimmy O. Yang floating through a broken window into the air for Interior Chinatown
The Big Picture ✕ Remove Ads Based on the novel by Charles Yu, Hulu’s Interior Chinatown follows Willis Wu , a waiter working alongside co-worker and friend of the family, Fatty Choi , used to being in the background of his own life when he witnesses a crime that pushes him into the spotlight as a main character.
Collider: To start with a silly question, Willis finds himself trapped in a police procedural. If you guys were suddenly trapped in a TV series, what specific show would you want to find yourself trapped in? YU: More option A. I was stuck for a long time, so I just wanted to get it out, whatever it was. It had to be written, I just didn’t know what it was until Willis’ voice started to emerge in little snippets. I just felt like it was a story that was really strange. I didn’t know if it would be for anyone else, to be honest. To me, some of the things that I’m most interested in are usually like, “This is so weird. No one’s gonna like this, but I’ve gotta do it.
Director Taika Waititi Wanted To Visually Set the Two Worlds of 'Interior Chinatown' Apart ✕ Remove Ads Taika, watching this, you can see the different choices in lighting and camera movement. There are various subtle things that are done to play with reality versus the show within the show.
YU: I was nervous to work with Taika, to be honest. I was excited, but certainly wondered, “Can I explain what I want? Have I thought about it enough?” Really it’s about, how do you conjure a world of a show within a show? It’s one thing to type some sentences out and the reader does the work for you. It’s another thing to actually have somebody build that, and then shoot it and light it correctly. I worried about whether it would translate.
✕ Remove Ads YU: It was really fun to watch Taika and the team do that. On the page, that was one page, and I think we shot probably about six minutes. It’s probably half that in the episode, but there was a whole bunch of stuff in there. In the script, it was basically just, “Willis starts to win, but then he loses.” And then, they shot that for two days.
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