.steveyeun, star of Beef, talks immigrating from Korea, navigating Hollywood, and why he wants to be in something like 'Avatar.'
When you’re out in the world, do you feel like people are angrier or less empathetic than they were maybe 10 or 15 years ago?
I think I was uncomfortable to do all of this, to be quite honest with you. There wasn’t anything particularly specific. For me, it was just like,Because every part of me, and probably all of us, would leave Danny by the wayside. And for me, the goal was to never bail on him, that he’s deserving of his truthful telling of his point of view.Some of the things we find out that he’s done with his brother are pretty rough.
Oh, yeah. The minute I got here, to be quite honest. I have this kindergarten photo of me when I first arrived in Canada in Regina, Saskatchewan. It’s a group photo, and I had just spent months crying every day, being dragged to school. You can see me and I look so sad. And there’s a little gap between me and the next person. And then you look at photos of me when I was in Korea just the year before, and I’m flipping my head upside down, so excited, still feeling so safe.
Absolutely. And that was the goal. Well, I don’t know if that was explicitly the goal. I can’t sit here and say I was conscious of what I was aiming at. I think for me, I was mostly responding to this feeling that I was not allowed to be more free than I was. And so getting to now be here and play the roles that I’ve played in the past, and even to portray someone like Danny in America, for American viewers and the world, that’s awesome. So I’m thankful.
Yeah. I do. And sometimes you don’t even like the thing that you haven’t done before. I’m not looking to play Danny. I’m not like, “Yes, sign me up for that experience.” But then having your friend say, “I think Danny’s story needs to be told and is something that we can both relate to and understand and really excavate,” then you’re like, “All right, I’ve got a person I trust, let’s do it.
And I’m lucky that this is my job, that so many reflections and mirrors in these directors and scripts and experiences get to go,And so I feel very blessed that I am constantly made to crush the image I have of myself to myself forcefully, because I don’t think I would give it up willingly.
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