Actor Steven Yeun: Walking Dead, Burning and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Actor Steven Yeun played fan-favorite Glenn Rhee for 6 years on AMC's wildly popular series The Walking Dead. He's also appeared in critically-acclaimed films Okja, Sorry to Bother You and 2020's Minari. He joined Bullseye in 2018 to talk about his work in Burning, a film that earned him a Best Supporting Actor award from the National Society of Film Critics. Steven chats with Jesse about Walking Dead fan culture, growing up in Detroit and how unpacking the minefields of assimilation impacted his adult life. Plus, he'll share with us the second-best hockey comeback story of the 90s.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.4	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.3	Steven Young broke through as an actor in 2010 when he played the fan favorite character
0:27.2	Glenn Greay on the Walking Dead.
0:30.0	It kicked off a career that's long since it clips his time on that show though.
0:34.4	He was in Okja, sorry to bother you, and he's starring in the new movie Minari.
0:40.0	Minari is set in the 1980s, it tells the story of the Yees, a Korean American family that
0:45.5	moves from California to rural Arkansas to grow vegetables.
0:49.8	This time goes on, the family struggles.
0:52.1	Their well-runs dry vendors cancel their orders, but their bond grows stronger.
0:57.6	It's worth mentioning too that Minari currently has a 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes,
1:03.0	which is no small feat.
1:05.0	When I talked to Steven Young in 2018, he was in another, critically acclaimed film, one
1:10.4	of my favorites of the past few years, Burning.
1:14.3	It's a sort of thriller.
1:15.8	Lee Chang-dong is the director and writer.
1:19.2	It's set in South Korea and tells the story of a dark, strange love triangle.
1:24.7	The protagonist, Jong-Soo, is a working-class guy who lives in a rural area outside Seoul.
1:30.8	One day, when he's in the city, he meets, Hey Me, a girl from back home.
1:35.4	They connect, go on a date, start hanging out.
1:38.2	They aren't exactly boyfriend, girlfriend, but you can tell that Jong-Soo is kind of
1:41.8	infatuated with her.
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