Beef, which premiered last month at SXSW to strong reviews, stars Ali Wong and Steve Yeun as strangers whose worlds become increasingly entangled after a road rage incident.
“George is a loving father, husband and artist — and in that specific order,” Lee says. “He’s really trying to come to terms with the placement of that order while living under his father’s legacy and themes of generational trauma. Ultimately, I think he’s just trying to establish his own boundaries amidst all of that,” he adds.
Lee, who moved to Los Angeles after studying theater in college, turned to creativity as an only child growing up in Indiana. “My parents were working, so I was a bit of a latchkey kid,” Lee says. “My entire life was glued to a television growing up. And so that’s where my imagination kind of flourished.” He began acting in high school, after pivoting from sports to drama club. “As soon as I got up on that stage, it was the greatest feeling I ever had,” he adds.
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