Ali Wong talks about her gun masturbation scene in 'Beef.'
and A24 dramedy opens plausibly enough with a road-rage scene between Wong’s Amy, an entrepreneur whose easygoing nature masks secret desires, and Yeun’s Danny, a contractor who goes to extremes to obtain what he wants. But that initial conflict drives both to exact bizarre acts of revenge on each other, revealing the darkest corners of their psyches. The result? Chaos. In one scene, Amy masturbates with a gun; in another, Danny urinates all over her bathroom — and that’s just the beginning.
He originally conceived the leads as an Asian man and a “Stanley Tucci type,” before replacing that character with Amy. “I abandoned the Stanley Tucci type very quickly because especially in the modern era, you have to talk about race, and there’s so many other shows that do that very well,” Lee says. “I didn’t have much interest, nor the capabilities, to write about that.
“So sneaky!” Wong interjects. “I didn’t even know about that. I didn’t even know that you smoked cigarettes until recently, and I was like”— here, she gasps.“I really didn’t know that you smoked cigarettes until I saw you at Monarch!”Joseph Lee steps in. “I’m the devil on his shoulder,” he says, cutting into Yeun’s and Wong’s banter with a calmness not unlike his own character’s demeanor.
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