Ronny Chieng and Chloe Bennet also star in Charles Yu's adaptation of his own acclaimed 2020 novel, about an unassuming waiter who gets caught up in a cold case involving his missing brother.

To help him prepare for his role as an overlooked Asian American everyman in “Interior Chinatown,” Jimmy O. Yang bought a $1,500 used Toyota Corolla and drove it around Los Angeles.

Jimmy O. Yang in "Interior Chinatown." "I feel like I'm a background character in someone else's story." So goes the internal monologue of Interior Chinatown protagonist Willis Wu (Jimmy O.

I n Hulu's "Interior Chinatown," Jimmy O. Yang stars as Willis Wu, a "generic Asian man" stuck in the background of police ...

The series’ episode titles reference different archetypes that have shadowed Asian American actors for decades. By TERRY TANG Jimmy O. Yang once played “Chinese Teenager #1.” He’s now No ...

Yang as Willis in Interior Chinatown (2024) (Mike Taing / Disney) Charles Yu’s novel is structured like a screenplay, with stage directions full of character descriptions and lyrical digressions.

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.” ...

When actor Jimmy O. Yang first read Interior Chinatown, he felt a spark of recognition. Charles Yu's National Book Award-winning novel tells the story of an Asian American waiter named Willis who ...

Jimmy O. Yang is stepping out of the background and into the action in “Interior Chinatown.” In the trailer for “Interior Chinatown,” Yang’s Willis Wu laments that he lives a relatively ...