Actor Steven Yeun Tells a New Story

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Today, we sit with actor Steven Yeun! At the top, we discuss his new Netflix series Beef (3:40), a powerful church scene from the show (12:10), and his personal experience immigrating to the US from Seoul as a child (18:44). Then, we walk through Steven’s coming of age in Michigan (21:35), his memorable audition for The Second City Touring Company (25:56), and his pursuit of on-screen work in Los Angeles (34:22).

On the back-half, Steven reflects on his portrayal of Glenn on The Walking Dead (36:54), the films that followed, including Okja (45:54), Burning (49:42), and Sorry to Bother You (50:58), his transformative experience making and premiering Minari (55:17), and to close, a poem that guided him on set by the great Wendell Berry (1:08:02).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San by actor Stephen Yun.
0:46.0	Young first broke out in the hit AMC series The Walking Dead,
0:50.0	where he played fan favorite character Glen Rhee from 2010 to 2016.
0:56.0	In the years to follow though, Stephen has made increasingly interesting choices,
1:01.0	collaborating with a wide variety of a tours like Director Bong in Okecha,
1:06.2	Boots Riley, and Sorry to Bother you, and Director Lee in Minari, for which he received an Oscar nomination for best actor in a leading role, making him the first
1:17.0	Asian American to do so.
1:19.6	His latest work comes in a new Netflix original series called Beef.
1:24.3	Created by Lee Sung Jin, the show tracks the aftermath of a road rage incident between two
1:30.3	strangers, a despondent contractor, played by
1:33.3	yun and a self-made entrepreneur played by Ali Wong.
1:38.7	Here's a clip from the trailer. What?
1:47.0	What? What are you doing? What are you doing?
1:54.0	What are you doing?
1:57.0	What are you doing?
2:00.0	What are you doing?
2:02.0	What are you doing? What's up?
2:03.0	Sometimes, sometimes, say, say,
2:04.0	I have a very full life that I'd love to get back to.
2:10.0	I'm going to find you and take what little you have.
2:14.0	You're just a suburban housewife and now you're stuck in a life, you never want it.
2:28.0	You have this serene Zen Buddhist thing going on. Aye.
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