I'm sitting here with like Tessa Thompson, LaKith Stanfield.
I'm like tucked away in the corner way in the back.
Somebody outside while we're shooting in the middle of the night at like 12 a.m.
Goes like, yo, that's that dude from Walking Dead.
And I was like, how did you see me?
I'm like behind, behind, behind.
and I'm here to revisit scenes from my career.
I deeply have fond memories of this particular moment because it was kind of like a personal
growth moment for me that you have more agency than you think.
Glenn does this huge fight with this walker and he's he's avoiding them fighting him.
And then he finally kills him.
And it was the first time I was like, here's like a feeling I have in this moment and I want to just do it.
David Galbraith, our focus puller, who recently passed away, he was like, whoa.
And like the whole thing of this whole show was just like getting his approval.
This role really helped set a really wonderful tone for me.
incredible actors, incredible directors, incredible writers, and and crew.
I how to be a professional,
I learned how to be an artist, I learned how to be a good human, and I learned how to be a great collaborator.
I'm very, very thankful for like this experience.
It was kind of this like fundamental, you know, foundation for a lot of the choices that I made after this.
you're about to know this guy.
Young is such an incredible actor.
Like in your life, like right now, in your one precious life, what is your plan?
This is the Chobros, the Chobrothers.
You're going to look at Danny Cho and Paul Cho, who are the children of immigrants.
kind of trying to just make it and figure it out.
If you're hungry, eat a steak.
You feel this on your face?
Like, look, it's right there, you know?
See something you like, baby, bro?
I remember talking with Sonny about it when he pitched me the idea of like, Hey, I'm thinking about this show about road rage.
And I was like, Oh, road rage, I'm into that.
And then like, Ali came on board and I was like, Oh, that makes sense.
And then it just kept making sense.
Fucking hilarious, and sad, and happy, and angry, and all the feelings.
Alright, what are you and boys going to do?
1k to 10k, 10k to 100, 100 million.
You're just saying higher numbers.
It's about seeing the humanity in yourself.
We never approached this in a way where we were conscious so much so of like what it was saying about it.
retelling and we are more just like let's make sure that like we're being authentic and as honest as
we can in every part of this expression down to our wonderful production designer Grace Yoon,
Helen Huang making our costumes,
to every character and actor being a part of this top to bottom like really
holding our authenticity and culture for ourselves so that we can then just explore these people and the humanity of these people.
Hopefully everyone can see Danny and themselves.
We're all weird and gross and funny and and sad and hilarious, and we're all the things.
Alright folks, it's me back here at 3PM, okay?
It's not serious, but it's not that, but I'm ready though.
I had just left doing Walking Dead for seven seasons in which the style of that show was just like busting through every day,
just like rolling around the dirt, screaming, crying, going nuts.
And then I got to play this role next, which was more a vibe.
I like Squeeze because he got to just kind of be and he was kind of sitting in the pocket of a knowing that maybe not everybody,
every other character, knew there's something he's he's hiding for himself that he's this union organizer.
We need to have enough to cover our basic necessities.
No, fuck that space, I'm ready.
This was the first time where me personally as an actor,
I like, Oh, I'm allowed to just stand there and feel the reality of the moment.
She carried Monica, the character of Monica.
deep in her body, coming all the way from Korea to like play this part.
Truly, we're blessed that we got to have her in this film.
This script kind of found me in a crazy way.
I read it and I was just like,
whoa this is so everything and so simple and beautiful and truthful and honest and it was
so sparse like the words weren't like overly dense and you could like see all the rhythm to it in there.
Two days before we started I was in my hotel room and Tulsa bugging out.
How am I going to do this?
All I could see was like a version of this character where he was just like this.
concept that was really far away from me of like my parents and their generation
and who they are to me and so they were always kind of rendered as this like idea.
I came to call my mom and I was just like complaining about it and I came to this understanding by the end.
I can experience this life and it was when I was able to like break the image of my own
parents to myself that I can just see them in love as full human being.
And that was when I really understood the character, my parents, it was wild.
I mean, I pretty much nailed it better than I could.
Saturday Night Live, Jordan is the man.
For him to write such a simple moment, but have so many layers that he wanted to explore underneath it, incredible.
We really, really worked on Jup quite extensively.
He doesn't show up too much in the film, but we really went there in our conversations.
We had many, many, many conversations about who this person is and how he's made and what moves him.
It's He's just crushing it.
He killing on that stage.
This particular scene is someone maybe displacing their memory of a trauma that they don't really know how to cope with or deal with.
And so he only knows how to...
in case it an entombent in this story that he remembers that someone else said about him.
I Jordan is such an incredible brave filmmaker,
the ways in which things are scary on the outside have been seen, but like the internal horror is really freaky that he's exploring.
The production designer, she was incredible.
I walking into Jup's office and into that Gordy's panic room.
What he's written on the walls, the details were outrageous.
And I remember being in there being like, Oh, this is his prison.
Like this is, he constructed his own prison.
The masterful direction of Jordan Peele was something that really helped me get into this character.
Jup was a sad guy to play.
This project was also so amazing for me.
I to work with two incredible actors, U.I.N.
and Changjungsa, also two incredible human beings.
I got to meet with Director Lee.
He gave me a big hug, and he was like, I'd love for you to play Ben.
okay like I'm not gonna say no I was like so you're gonna have him be like you
know like an Asian American right like where he like speaks most English and
he's like yeah yeah and then I went home and then he was like you're gonna speak
all Korean and you're gonna be native Korean and I was like oh shit Then I don't know how,
like, I was like, oh you're gonna have to speak Korean, you're gonna have speak Korean really well, you're gonna have to play this
part that you've never played before, you're gonna work with this director that you've never worked with before.
That was really exciting, I was really blessed by this role.
helped me explore a lot of things about myself that I had put away since I had immigrated to America when I was four.
And so it was really transformative for me.
I'm thankful for this role Surprisingly not as cringy as I thought it'd be.
I am so grateful that I got to be a part of these things and work with these people a very lucky life So very thankful for
this Thank you Vanity Fair for going on this journey with me