What happens to Gus?
But what is normalcy?
That’s an extraordinary arc.
Brian Tee and Nicole Kidman as Clarke and Margaret Woo in ‘Expats’.Prime Video
I read it and optioned it immediately and spent years trying to develop it.
you’ve got the option to be showrunner, director, every part of it.
Are you kidding me?
Nicole Kidman and Brian Tee as Margaret and Clarke Woo in ‘Expats’.Prime Video
On the inside, [I felt] rockets and fireworks and
KIDMAN:You were super cool.
TEE:I take a stab at be.
But on the inside I was just melting.
Nicole Kidman as Margaret in ‘Expats’.Atsushi Nishijima/Prime Video
The bar is so incredibly high.
There was zero hesitation to want to be a part of this.
And luckily, they actually accepted me in this particular role.
Brian Tee as Clarke in ‘Expats’.Atsushi Nishijima/Prime Video
So I’m forever grateful and appreciative.
KIDMAN:We needed you.
Theres masculinity, but there’s sensitivity and kindness to Brian.
Close your ears, Brian.
They’re not leaving each other.
They’re navigating loss and pain together.
They move throughall the stages of grief.
KIDMAN:We were both going,We have to spend a whole episode in a morgue?
TEE:The morgue sequence is kind of the pinnacle of their relationship and journey.
It’s a true testament of their relationship.
And that’s the beauty of this relationship.
KIDMAN:We dont have control over that.
I will always acquiesce to a director’s vision.
He may be alive, he may be dead.
That was my closing question, your interpretations of Gus fate and the ending.
Also, Lulu recently shared a video of her driver pestering her about his fate.
Have you both been pestered about it?
We dont always get the answers in life.
We’re forever journeying through this process and existing.
And that’s the perfect ending forExpats.
But yes, always being pestered by friends.
What happens to Clarke?
Are they going to find Gus?
WithExpats,you live and breathe with it.
KIDMAN:Ive received so many texts just going, Lulu is brilliant.
My mom just sent me a text.
Ill read it to you.
And my moms really tough: Lulu is a brilliant director.
I just watched episode 5 again because I couldnt help myself.
Its so very good.
Episode 6 coming up this weekend.
Dont tell me what happens.
Lulu has handled it so sympathetically and with such great insight.
I hope thats what people realize.
Its a juggernaut of a piece.
People are texting me, Dont tell me how it ends.
Im thinking oh my gosh, Im not sure you’ll be happy in the morning.
But I remember this from [Stanley] Kubrick, where he’s like, there is no ending.
I think [Lulu] managed to take this to as you said, Brian life.
TEE:It lives with you.
It absolutely lives with you.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
TheExpatsseries finale is now streaming on Prime Video.
