Maya Erskine talks “Mr. & Mrs. Smith†secrets and Viet Thanh Nguyen on adapting “The Sympathizerâ€
In the Emmy-season premiere of The Envelope video podcast, we sit down with Maya Erskine, star of Amazon Prime Video’s acclaimed reimagination of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,†and Viet Thanh Nguyen and Don McKellar, who brought Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer†to life on HBO.
Yvonne Villarreal is a senior television writer for the Calendar section and co-host of “The Envelope†podcast.
Mark Olsen writes about all kinds of movies for the Los Angeles Times as both a feature writer and reviewer.
Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.
