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24 SUMMER 2025 ALL PHOTOS: DISNEY/MIKE TAING A S T FA L L , Hulu's 10-episode series Interior Chinatown introduced viewers to characters living in a fictitious version of Chinatown, within the fictional TV show Black & White, very much akin to a Law & Order-type television series. The series is based on author and creator Charles Yu's book of the same name and addresses how Asian characters, tropes, and stereotypes are portrayed in this format of storytelling. Willis Wu, played by Jimmy O. Yang, is a generic background character in police procedural Black & White who yearns to be a bigger part of the story but is held back by surreal circumstances of the show world's workings until he becomes the witness to a kidnapping that leads him to interact with Lana Lee, a detective in the Black & White show. Throughout the series, Willis experiences changes in his abilities as he becomes a recurring character within the story. Lana recruits him to take down organized crime in Chinatown, breaking him out Interior Chinatown Interior Chinatown Bringing the Background to the Forefront By Erin Wenrick L