In 'Expats,' directed by Lulu Wang, Nicole Kidman is happy to share the limelight

Nicole Kidman captivated TV viewers in 2020 in “The Undoing,” as a woman whose husband was accused of murder. In “Big Little Lies,” she was a woman in an abusive marriage. And let's not forget she won an Oscar for playing 20th century writer Virginia Woolf, who battled mental illness, in the 2002 movie “The Hours.”

In her new series “Expats,” premiering Friday on Amazon Prime Video, Kidman once again emotionally jumps off a cliff. At the center of “Expats" are three women, played by Kidman, ‎Ji-young Yoo and ‎Sarayu Blue, who are each expatriates living in Hong Kong. Their lives are all altered when the young son of Kidman's character, Margaret, goes missing.

Lulu Wang ( “The Farewell” ) directed and was the showrunner of the six-episode series, filmed on location in Hong Kong.

“When Nicole came to me, to make the series, I just felt like she was meeting me at the height of the success of ‘The Farewell.’ But people who know me from childhood know we were immigrants (from China),” Wang says. “I felt like the series had to represent that aspect of my life, like, yes, I’m an American expat in certain contexts, but in another context, I’m a Chinese immigrant. I wanted to really challenge this idea of a bubble that expats have.”