News has exclusively learned thatThe Walking DeadstarSteven Yeunand his wifeJoana Pakwelcomed their first child together. The couple's baby boy arrived on March 17. News of the couple'spregnancybroke in December, only a couple of days after theytied the knotat the Paramour Estate in California...
Set in a sun-dappled version of the '80s, the film features Yeun as Jacob Yi, an obstinate Korean father who uproots his wife and two young children from California to start a farm in rural Arkansas, which might as well be an alien exoplanet thousands of parsecs away. At its heart, ...
Lee Sung Jin, the creator and showrunner of Netflix’s “Beef,” first worked with Steven Yeun and Ali Wong on the animated series “Tuca & Bertie.” But their latest collaboration sees the three reunite to craft a Netflix show along an A24 sensibility. “Beef,” which dropped on...
Yeun: It was awesome, man. It was a really, really transformative experience for me, because I’ve been to Korea before — I was born in Korea, but I’m fully, fully American at this point. To go back and be at the same age that my father was when he and my mother were there...
Yeun: I just remember my aunt’s house in Grosse Isle. They were the most well-off in our family by leaps and bounds at the time, and they’d become this central hub for a lot of family members to run through. We were there, my cousins, my other cousins, my grandma would come,...
And ultimately, that’s how a movie likeOkja— which has spurred many post-screening conversations on the Croisette — can have a tangible effect on the real world. “The cool part is that I don’t think art has ever shied away from this battle,” Yeun said. “This seems fresh and sc...