Charlyne Yi

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2009

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Charlyne Yi made her first on screen appearance playing the stoned girlfriend of Martin Starr's character in the Judd Apatow flick Knocked Up. Now, she's written Paper Heart a documentary and narrative film in which she also stars opposite Michael Cera. Hear from Yi about why she doesn't believe in love, and from Paper Heart director Nick Jasenovec about the choice of casting someone else to play himself.

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0:00.0	I'm Ellen Murray from Atlanta, Georgia.
0:02.0	I'm Kira from Cotonin, New York.
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0:14.0	I'm Jesse Ford.
0:15.0	Live on tape from My House in Los Angeles.
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0:24.0	My guests on the program are Charlene Yee and Nick Gasanovic.
0:31.0	They are the star and director respectively
0:36.0	of the new film Paper Heart,
0:39.0	which is a look at what love is through the lens
0:43.0	of documentary and faux documentary
0:47.0	without much of a line in between them.
0:50.0	Nick, Charlene, welcome to the Sound of Young America.
0:53.0	It's great to have you here.
0:55.0	Thanks for having us, Jesse.
0:56.0	Thanks for having us.
0:57.0	So how did the two of you conceive of this movie?
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