Jimmy O. Yang Kicks Serious Ass in Trailer for Taika Waititi Hulu Series ‘Interior Chinatown’
Jimmy O. Yang doesn’t code for Erlich Bachman no more.
On Tuesday, Hulu released the trailer for “Interior Chinatown,” its wild action-comedy series based on Charles Yu’s book of the same name. Yang, who plays a mild-mannered waiter, is about to get way in over his head.
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But first, he exists in total mundanity.
“In Chinatown, nothing ever changes,” Willis Wu (Yang) says to open the trailer. “Nothing exciting ever happens to me or you or anyone we know.”
“I feel like I’m a background character in someone else’s story,” Wu continues.
Well, he’s definitely — and precisely — right about that last part.
“Interior Chinatown” follows Wu, a background character stuck in a police procedural called “Black & White.” This may sound weird, but the show has a definite “Wreck-It Ralph” vibe.
“Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown and aspiring to be the lead of his own story,” the show’s synopsis reads. “When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, while discovering his own family’s buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.”
This part is us again: And then Willis begins to kick some serious ass. Plus, Ronny Chieng proves pretty handy with a wall phone, there’s a Komodo dragon…
Chloe Bennet, Lisa Gilroy, Sullivan Jones, Archie Kao, and Diana Lin also star in the series.
Yu, the show’s creator, executive produces alongside Dan Lin and Lindsey Liberatore for Rideback, Jeff Skoll, Miura Kite, and Elsie Choi for Participant, Garrett Basch for Dive, John Lee, and Taika Waititi, who also directed the pilot. The 10-episode limited series is produced by 20th Television.
All episodes of “Interior Chinatown” premiere November 19 on Hulu. Watch the trailer here:
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