After the success of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, for which he won many awards such as the Golden Globe and recently the BAFTA, Robert Downey Jr. continues his 180° cinematic turn.
After ten years in the Iron Man suit, the 58-year-old actor has immersed himself in tempting projects such as his next series, a co-production between HBO and A24, which is set to hit the US this year.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer is a fiction by Park Chan-wook (The Old Boy, Mademoiselle) and Don McKellar about an exiled Franco-Vietnamese communist spy (Hoa). Xuande). At the end of the Vietnam War in Los Angeles, he was forced to return to work.
Robert Downey Jr., the man of many faces in The Sympathizer.
In the new trailer for The Sympathizer, just released by HBO, we see a completely transformed Robert Downey Jr. Indeed, the actor plays several antagonists in the series, each time with completely different looks, between wigs, mustaches, aging and classic or crazy clothing styles.
The unrecognizable ex-Iron Man, also the producer of The Sympathizer, seems to enjoy beating up the various characters for whom he shaves his head and wears wigs in this slick and promising spy thriller.
He accompanies the actor to the casting Hoa JuandeFred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Duy Nguyen, Vi Le, Alan Trong, Ki Duen, as well as Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy, The Killing Eve) and French actress Marine Delterme, the heroine of the series Alice Never, is a female judge. twenty years.
The Sympathizer series will be available on April 14th on the Max platform in the US. It does not yet have a broadcaster in France.
Source: Allocine
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