Stories We Tell with Lee Isaac Chung & Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Topics covered include: career trajectories, seeing yourself through your children’s eyes, the traveling circus energy of a film set, paying to play, knowing failure, making art for yourself, the impact of the Hollywood stereotypes we grow up with, American hang-ups about the Vietnam War, the legendary Park Chan-wook, whether Isaac would make a Marvel movie, the artistry of Minari, and why every immigrant story should be considered an epic.

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome back to the E24 podcast.
0:06.2	For today's episode, we introduce Menari Ryder director Lee Isaac Chung to novelist
0:10.3	Viet Ton Moin, who we're currently working with on the TV adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize
0:15.1	winning book The Sympathizer, which Park Chan-Wook is set to direct.
0:20.0	Last week, Isaac and Viet talked by Zoom, and after discovering their basically next
0:24.2	door neighbors, went on to have an incredible conversation about their approaches to art
0:28.4	and storytelling.
0:29.4	We're so excited for you to listen.
0:31.4	Hello, I'm Isaac Chung, the writer director of Menari.
0:36.4	Hi, this is Viet Ton Moin.
0:38.8	I'm the writer of The Sympathizer and the Committed, and I'm talking with Isaac today
0:44.6	for the A24 podcast.
0:47.4	Isaac, we've actually never met.
0:49.4	This is our first time meeting each other virtually or in real life.
0:54.7	Yeah.
0:55.7	I read your book many years or when it first came out, and honestly, I love it.
1:00.4	I love that book, so I was so excited to see that we're going to do something together.
1:04.6	Yeah, me too.
1:05.6	I mean, we're going to get into all this, and I love Menari too, but I just want to find
1:09.0	out, where are you calling from?
1:12.4	I'm in South Pasadena, California.
1:15.0	Oh my gosh.
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