John Cho ❤️
Life is Short with Justin Long
Wondery
4.8 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
John Cho (Troublemaker, Praise Petey) and Justin talk about how he moved to the U.S. from Korea at the age of 6, his book Troublemaker about the Korean experience of the LA Riots, how he got into acting and the lasting impact of his small role in “American Pie.”
(This interview was recorded on July 7)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. |
| 0:01.8 | You can listen to Life is Short. |
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| 0:13.6 | For the first 20 years of my life, I had only heard about the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
| 0:18.9 | In my head, it was a hallowed, sacred place where if you made it in the entertainment |
| 0:24.1 | industry, you ended up on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and you would see news clips |
| 0:29.9 | of stars putting their hands in the cement and they would put... |
| 0:33.4 | They would have a big ceremony and it was all this... |
| 0:35.8 | It was all very exciting and then when I finally went to LA and I was shooting a Hollywood |
| 0:43.6 | movie, I found myself, as most people do when they first go to LA, visiting the Hollywood |
| 0:49.8 | Walk of Fame and seeing all the stars and sure enough, they're right there. |
| 0:53.8 | They're right there on the sidewalk. |
| 0:54.8 | It's a sidewalk made up of all of these stars and the longer you're in LA, you become |
| 1:01.2 | kind of accustomed to that area of town. |
| 1:03.1 | It's where a lot of tourists go, obviously. |
| 1:06.3 | Then you start looking at it a little more closely and you see that there's litter everywhere |
| 1:11.2 | and some are unfortunately sleeping there and then I started to realize that that's |
| 1:18.8 | the best you can hope for in terms of a legacy in Hollywood that is that too dark. |
| 1:26.4 | No, it is dark. |
| 1:30.3 | I guess that's when you start to realize is that it's... |
| 1:32.9 | Yes, or perhaps you're just bitter because you don't have a star. |
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