Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Multihyphenate Don McKellar is tackling his biggest project to date with The Sympathizer. The Canadian creative first found success as an actor in everything from the David Cronenberg-helmed eXistenZ to the Samuel L. Jackson-starring The Red Violin, which he also penned.
McKellar Thought An "Outsider" Perspective Tied In To The Sympathizer's Story Unlike the majority of his collaborators on the show, McKellar is one of the few non-Asian creatives leading the charge for The Sympathizer, a story squarely set in the Vietnamese experience.
The Sympathizer's Multiple Genres Led McKellar To "Double Down" On Its Complex Narrative As Nguyen's novel bounces between Hollywood satire to powerful war drama, McKellar recognized he was facing a "very complex narrative" to bring The Sympathizer to life on screen.
Don McKellar: Yeah, that was one of the challenges was how to approximate the voice. Viet said right from the beginning, they thought that the voice was the reason for the success of the book. He's a bit of a raconteur, it's a bit unreliable, and we wanted to evoke that. One of the ways was to make an interrogation. So, it comes out through interrogation, which means, by its very nature, it's unreliable, just like torture victims' confessions are unusable in a court of law.
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