After working with Steven Yeun (steveyeun) and Ali Wong (aliwong) on “Tuca & Bertie,” Lee Sung Jin wanted to collaborate with the actors again. He pitched Yeun his idea for a series exploring the psychological underpinnings of road rage. Enter “Beef.”
.” It required her to masturbate with a gun, do her first on-camera sex scene, memorize long monologues that were to be recited in a single take and shoot action sequences in the wilderness. “I felt like Shelley Long in ‘Troop Beverly Hills,’” joked Wong, contrasting herself with Yeun, who rose to fame running from zombies on “The Walking Dead.” “He’s used to having blood and dirt kicked in his face at 6 in the morning.
“When you have a predominantly Asian American cast, which is very rare, all the people get to be people,” said Ali Wong, left, with Steven Yeun. Lee’s own road rage incident involved a middle-aged white man, and he’d originally envisioned Yeun’s character clashing with “a Stanley Tucci type.” Early in the development process, he was catching up with Wong, who also starred in “Tuca & Bertie.
Much of the drama centers in the Valley, from the tony climes of Calabasas, where Amy lives, to Danny’s modest corner of Reseda. It’s all personal to Lee, who bought a house in the Valley a few years ago and would often find himself running errands at the Home Depot in West Hills. He was struck by the extent to which the store was “a hub for the economic divide.”
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