Steven Yeun on ‘Beef’; Disney CEO Bob Iger’s potential successors explained
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw examine four Disney executives poised to take the throne in 2026 following CEO Bob Iger’s proposed retirement.
Plus, we revisit our conversation with Steven Yeun, who joined Kim Masters to talk about his Emmy winning limited series, Beef. The actor talks about his initial fears of not living up to expectations after being cast in what would become an Academy Award-nominated performance for Minari, why he and his Beef co-star Ali Wong broke out in hives after production wrapped, and how Netflix approached the A24 limited series with an offer that was too good to turn down.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
| 0:05.4 | When Netflix got the pitch for the limited series beef, the streamer blew the competition away. |
| 0:11.5 | Netflix had made such an incredible offer to us that it felt like the right place. |
| 0:16.1 | They were just kind of gung-ho from the very beginning, and they just put it on the table and was like, we want to do this. |
| 0:24.5 | And it felt safe in that way. And the process with them has been really wonderful. Beastar Stephen Young talks about the joys of filming the limited series that would go on |
| 0:30.3 | to sweep the awards season, earning him two Emmys. He also shares why he and Beef co-star Ali Wong |
| 0:36.9 | broke out in hives after production wrapped. |
| 0:39.9 | But first two buddies banter while I'm away. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Matt Bellany, filling in for Kim Masters. Today we've got Lucas Shaw, media and entertainment head at Bloomberg with us. Hi, Lucas. Hey, Matt. |
| 0:55.3 | All right. So let's get into Disney. You had a report last week that updated what I think people have been talking about around town. It's sort of known, but not known, that the Disney succession race has really come to a head. |
| 1:12.9 | This is the succession race to replace Bob Iger, the current CEO, |
| 1:17.3 | who has said that he is going to leave at the end of 2026. |
| 1:20.9 | Now, we know he has said that many, many times in the past, |
| 1:24.2 | and he has never left except for the one time when he did leave, |
| 1:26.8 | and then he came back a year later. But this time he says he's really focused on succession. The board is |
| 1:32.3 | focused, and they are going to pick someone, and they have whittled it down to four |
| 1:37.1 | internal candidates. Doesn't mean they still won't pick someone from the outside, but they |
| 1:41.3 | are really focusing on four internal candidates. They are |
| 1:45.8 | the head of the film group, Alan Bergman, the head of the parks division, Josh Jamarrow, |
| 1:51.1 | the head of ESPN, sports unit, Jimmy Pitaro, and the head of the television unit, Dana Walden. |
| 1:58.3 | I hate the even handicap at this point, but what do you think the sense is |
| 2:03.9 | right now among the chattering classes around town of the hierarchy here? The sense has been that |
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