Jimmy O. Yang has a knack for taking some specific, weirdly universal characters and making them both hilarious and sometimes even profound. You probably first saw him as the scheming Jian-Yang on Silicon Valley, or as the delightfully chaotic Bernard Tai in Crazy Rich Asians. Now, the actor and comic is trying something completely different with Interior Chinatown, Hulu’s take on Charles Yu’s Pulitzer-winning novel, which Yu adapted himself. The show is part-cop show satire, part-family drama, and part-existential fever dream, and Yang is right at the center of it, playing Willis Wu, a “Generic Asian Man” trying to break out of the background and figure out who he’s meant to be. It’s sharp, strange, and deeply personal to the 37-year-old Chinese immigrant. To drink in the moment, he called up his friend and Crazy Rich Asians costar Awkwafina to talk about the show, their friendship, and that time they were denied from a downtown restaurant.