Crowned Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars this year, Robert Downey Jr. returns to us in the casting of a series available on the Warner Pass!
Entering the cinema legend a few weeks ago thanks to his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (for the film Oppenheimer), Robert Downey Jr. is already making his comeback. Not in the cinema, but on television, since the latter appears in the credits of the event mini-series The Sympathizer.
Four Robert Downey Jr. for the price of one!
This spy series adapted from the Pultizer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen takes place in the 1970s, at the end of the Vietnam War. A Franco-Vietnamese spy exiled in the United States finds himself caught up in his past as a communist agent, and begins a double life with both camps.
In this mini-series co-created by Park Chan-wook (Old Boy), Robert Downey Jr. plays four different characters, each representing a different aspect of the American establishment: a CIA agent, a professor, an elected official of the American Congress and a director. A true chameleon actor, the latter was therefore the perfect choice to deliver a quadruple performance of this type!
The A24 studio in production
The main role of the program – a protagonist whose name we do not know – is played by Hoa Xuande. Little known to the general public, this Australian actor of Vietnamese origins notably appeared in the Netflix series Cowboy Bebop, as well as in the second season of the anthology Top of the Lake.
Note that the mini-series is produced by the company A24, behind major films such as Everything Everywhere All at Once, Midsommar and The Iron Claw. This partnership with the American cable channel HBO marks the association of two giants of American independent cinema and television.
A gripping story made of pretenses and unexpected plot twists, the spy mini-series The Sympathizer can be found every week from this Monday, April 15 on Prime Video, via the paid Warner Pass subscription.
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