Its protagonist is Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang), an unassuming waiter who's always dreamt of being the hero but despairs of forever being relegated to, as he sighs, "a background character in someone else's story.

Hulu Comedian and actor Jimmy O. Yang takes the lead in Hulu’s new adaptation of Charles Yu‘s bestselling book Interior Chinatown, which is now streaming. Yang plays Willis Wu, a waiter in a

"Interior Chinatown," starring Jimmy O. Yang (who plays Willis), is an adaptation of Charles Yu’s satirical novel that jabs at how Asian American men have been treated by Hollywood — and in life — one trope at a time.

An Asian American waiter named Willis gets embroiled in a mystery after witnessing a crime in Charles Yu's National Book Award-winning novel. Jimmy O. Yang stars in the new Hulu adaptation.