Henry Golding has said he was drawn to the lead role in Monsoon by feeling neither British or Asian enough to fit into either society.
The British-Malaysian actor, 33, said he shared a “sense of displacement” with the character of Kit, a young British man who struggles with his cultural identity as he travels to his birth country of Vietnam for the first time in 30 years.
Kit was six when he and his family escaped Saigon as refugees following the Vietnam War and he is no longer familiar with the country or able to speak his native language.
In #MonsoonFilm, a British Vietnamese man travels to Vietnam to make sense of his family history. Join actors @henrygolding and @ParkerSawyers, director Hong Khaou and producer Tracy O'Riordan for tonight's FREE Q&A at 6PM!— BAFTA (@BAFTA) January 7, 2021