Comedian Jimmy O. Yang lands the role of his dreams in Interior Chinatown – stylised on-screen as Int. Chinatown – playing a lowly waiter at a family-run restaurant who discovers he is really an extra within a popular television cop show.

Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet and Tzi Ma also star in the 10-episode series, adapted by Charles Yu from his own award-winning novel. Academy Award winner Taika Waititi serves as an executive producer and also directs the first episode.

Addressing issues of diversity and racial stereotyping in mainstream entertainment, Interior Chinatown examines the impact of these deep-seated prejudices both on creatives working within the industry, as well as audiences searching for role models and focal points in the films and shows purportedly created for their entertainment.

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