Brian Tee, Jack Huston: Expats are traumatized, trying to heal. Chicago Med actor Brian Tee and Boardwalk Empire alum Jack Huston say all of the characters are traumatized, but doing their best to move on from their grief in their new Prime Video drama, Expats. The series premieres Friday.
From drifting cars and saving lives in previous acting roles, actor Brian Tee revealed that his role as a father in Lulu Wang’s “Expats” series has been the heaviest character he has ever had to portray in his almost two-decade career. The Japanese-born American actor has starred in over 70 films and TV shows, including "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" (2006), “The Wolverine” (2013) and NBC’s hit series “Chicago Med,” but he has never related to a character as he much as he did in “Expats” portraying Clarke, who loses a child in the middle of a bustling night market in Hong Kong.
The TV adaptation of the 2016 novel The Expatriates is set in Hong Kong and tells the stories of several women navigating expat ennui. The show is also a strangely displaced form of prestige TV.