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Women Who Travel Podcast: Director Lulu Wang Isn't Compromising
08.03.2024 - 16:40 / cntraveler.com
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In honor of International Women's Day, Lale chats with award-winning director Lulu Wang, who is featured on Condé Nast Traveler's 2024 Women Who Travel Power List, about creating the worlds of Expats and The Farewell, the importance of using filmmaking to highlight untold stories, and her journey to becoming an award-winning director—without making compromises.
Lale Arikoglu: Hi there. I'm Lale Arikoglu and I'm really excited that today I'm talking to film director Lulu Wang. She's featured in Condé Nast Traveler’s Women Who Travel Power List, published today. It's a celebration of the women who are shaping the way we travel in 2024 and beyond, including television hosts, chefs, designers, activists, and filmmakers. Lulu is the creator of Expats, an Amazon original drama series starring Nicole Kidman. It's shot on location in Hong Kong.
Expats Clip: Don't you ever miss it, home?
I like our life here. The help, the drivers, it makes everything easier.
Lulu Wang: Expats is an intersection of three American women and many other people around them who are all affected by one event, one life-changing tragedy that ripples throughout this community. Expats looks at issues of privilege and power dynamics, race, class, the intersection of so many different identities and how this tragedy affects all of them.
LA: The word expatriate suggests moving to a foreign country for well-paid work and choosing to live in a bubble of an expat community. Think lounging on recliners in self-segregated country clubs, but who gets to call themselves an expat. The differences in the word expat and the word immigrant are very telling.
LW: I wanted to explore the thorniness and the prejudices and the biases that we have.
LA: What's your relationship to the word expat?
LW: I think it's thorny in a way, in the same way as being American abroad sometimes. I think that there are connotations that come with it that invoke a carelessness, a non-integration or respect for the culture.
LA: You were born in China and then you moved to the states, what was that journey for you?
LW: My parents brought me to the US, to Miami specifically, when I was six years old. It was during a time where there was a lot of political turmoil in the country and there was a lot of uncertainty about the future of the country. We boarded a plane, my mother and I, to join my father who left a few months before us and didn't know if we were going to get our visas, and we were so lucky that we did and left and we had a connecting flight in Paris, in Charles de Gaulle. It was just terrifying. Now I travel all the time and I have no fears, and
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