‘Expats’ Star Ji-young Yoo on the ‘Daunting’ Experience of Starring Opposite Nicole Kidman

Ji-young Yoo was only 21 years old when she booked one of the leading roles in Lulu Wang’s miniseries “Expats,” in which she would costar opposite Nicole Kidman, who optioned Janice Y.K. Lee’s 2016 novel “The Expatriates,” about a close-knit community of women and their families residing in Hong Kong. At the time, Yoo had only a handful of film and TV credits, all of them supporting or minor roles.

“Daunting is a very good way to describe it,” Yoo told TheWrap. “I think all of it would have been daunting even if I had more experience, but this was my first lead role for film and TV.”