Peninsula Mentality with Steven Yeun & Michael Imperioli

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Topics covered include: The Sopranos cast being sore losers at their first Emmy Awards, hyperbolic reviews, the extremes of Hollywood, getting recognized in Best Buy, only eating Subway sandwiches the entire time Steven shot Burning in Korea, long lost aunts, Michael experiencing an emotional pasta sauce on his first trip to Rome at 25, sprezzatura, the parallels between Christopher Moltisanti and Danny Cho, searching for meaning, breaking generational patterns, playing unlikeable characters with a profound sense of vulnerability, the realities of road rage, and Italian Korean fusion food.

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome back to the A24 podcast. For today's episode, we brought together two
0:11.5	of this year's Emmy nominees, Stephen Jan and Michael Imperioli. Stephen stars in our
0:16.8	Netflix series, Beef, and Michael has a very memorable role in season two of HBO's
0:21.8	The White Lotus, one of our favorite non-A24 productions. Please note, this conversation
0:27.4	was recorded pre-strike. We hope you enjoy it. So we should introduce ourselves. Is
0:34.3	that usually? All right. All right. Hi, this is Stephen Jan and this is Michael
0:39.7	Imperioli and today we're talking on the A24 podcast. Where are you today? I'm in my
0:45.3	house in L.A. How about yourself? Yeah, I'm in my house in New York. Right on. It's
0:51.9	really cool to talk to you. Same here. Yeah, same here. This is very cool. How long
0:56.6	of you lives in L.A. I'm originally from Michigan. I moved here 2009 and I got here and
1:03.4	then I booked a show that took me to Atlanta for seven years. So I've been like in and
1:07.8	out of this place. I did the whole I hate this place for a while and I'm back to I like
1:14.0	this place. Fine. You did a show meaning the walking dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's
1:20.4	sure. Where Michigan? I'm from Detroit suburbs, Troy, Michigan. So I lived in Royal Oak
1:27.8	for a while. Oh, you did for a year for a work. Yeah, I did a series in 2010. Oh, amazing.
1:35.1	2011. We shot in Detroit in the city that we made a studio out of some warehouse in Highland
1:40.6	Park. Yeah. But I lived in Royal Oak and you know, drove, which is very not far from Troy.
1:46.5	I don't know. And Royal Oak is a nice place to get the real culture of Michigan. What
1:51.0	did you think of Michigan? Would you? You could be honest. I liked it a lot until it got
1:55.8	really until it got cold. It got very. It's brutal. It's brutal. Yeah. And really cool.
2:01.8	It was hard for me because my my wife and kids were in New York. They came for the summer
2:06.1	because the job started in the summer and the summer is quite nice there. There's lakes
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