From The Walking Dead to becoming an Oscar-nominated actor: Steven Yeun on Minari
calls it:"A profound, detail-perfect and soulful slice of American family life, with some of the year's most sincere performances to date."Lee Isaac Chung was Oscar-nominated for both Directing and Screenwriting for. Well before the film was greenlit, he sent his script to Steven, who, a few years before, had become his cousin by marriage. Lee felt Steven might understand Jacob, a chicken-sexing expert with grand aspirations, as few actors could.
"Another strength of Steven's is that you instantly want to root for him," adds Lee."You have to want to root for Jacob because he's doing this terribly risky thing, taking his family to this crazy place without even consulting them and putting them on the edge of disaster. You could easily despise this guy and not trust him at all.
"For one thing, Korean is something that I can speak, but not necessarily in the right vernacular for Jacob, so I knew that would take some real study and work. Even more worrisome was taking on playing a father of Jacob's generation. As a minority, playing this kind of role felt very large to me and weighty. I worried: 'Am I going to be able to portray this man authentically enough? Do I even know my own father? Do I really understand what our parents went through?'.
"I don't think I could fully understand my parents' perspective until I had my own kids. But now I know something of what it's like to be Jacob, to be thirty-something and to have kids relying on you but also have this fire to pursue your own ideas of success and happiness."
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