Name: "You Can Be Anything You Want To Be Up There" - Steven Yeun On Falling In Love With Performing
Uploaded: 2021-02-09T18:20:13.000Z
Duration: 5 min 37 s
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>> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY! WELCOME BACK.

MY NEXT GUEST IS AN ACTOR YOU KNOW FROM "THE WALKING DEAD,"

>> Stephen: PLEASE WELCOME TO "A LATE SHOW," STEVEN YEUN.

>> HEY, STEPHEN, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

>> Stephen: ONE THING WE HAVE IN COMMON BESIDES OUR NAME,

PEOPLE OUT THERE OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO IDEA YOU AND I BOTH WORKED AT

YOU WERE THE NATIONAL TOURING COMPANY, RIGHT?

>> YEAH, I GOT A BRIEF STINT AT THE TOURING COMPANY.

( LAUGHTER ) A LOT OF PEOPLE DO COMEDY AND

THEY END UP DOING NOTHING ELSE WITH THEIR CAREERS, BUT HOW THAT

IS IMPROV OR IMPROV COMEDY EVEN HELPED YOU AS A DRAMATIC ACTOR?

>> YOU KNOW, IMPROV IS SUCH A GREAT FOUNDATION, I THINK, YOU

KNOW, THE TENETS OF STAYING PRESENT, LISTENING, BEING

SPONTANEOUS, THOSE ARE ALL REALLY GREAT FIRST TOOLS TO KIND

OF LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR ME AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT THAT

YOU KNOW, DRAMATIC ACT, YOU JUST DON'T HAVE TO BE WITTY AND FUNNY

THAT TAKES A WHOLE SECTION OF THE THING OFF.

>> Stephen: YOU HAVE BEEN ACT AGO LONG TIME -- ACTING A LONG

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE THIS PHOTOGRAPH.

I JUST -- THAT IMAGE OF ME LANDING IN SASKATCHEWAN IN MY

FIRST YEAR OF SCHOOL IN AMERICA, IN THE WEST, AND I -- I PROBABLY

NOT TO BE SAD ABOUT IT, BUT, YEAH, I THINK I STARTED, YOU

>> Stephen: BECAUSE -- DID YOU HAVE ENGLISH AT THIS AGE?

MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME THE FIRST ENGLISH WORDS I LEARNED WERE

>> Stephen: BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE SAID IT TO YOU?

( LAUGHTER ) HOW DO YOU SAY "DON'T CRY" IN

( SPEAKING KOREAN ) >> Stephen: I NEED TO HEAR

THAT RIGHT NOW, JUST THINKING OF THIS CHILD BEING TOLD NOT TO

SO WHAT WAS -- WHEN DID YOU SAY TO YOURSELF, OKAY, I WANT TO DO

THIS AS -- I WANT TO BE A PERFORMER, I WANT TO MAKE THIS

>> YOU KNOW, I WENT TO COLLEGE -- I WENT TO COLLEGE IN

KALAMAZOO, KALAMAZOO COLLEGE, AND I GOT TO SEE MY IMPROV

TROUPE AT MY SCHOOL THAT JORDAN KLEPPER WAS A PART OF.

AND HE WASN'T THERE, UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN I WENT

I LOVE THE FREEDOM, I LOVE THE PERFORMANCE.

HONESTLY, IT WAS -- I THINK IT WAS JUST LIKE YOU CAN BE

ANYTHING YOU WANT TO BE UP THERE AT ANY GIVEN TIME, AND PEOPLE

SO I LIKE THE CHALLENGE OF THAT, I GUESS.

>> Stephen: WELL, THE NEW FILM "MINARI" IS ABOUT -- IT'S A

KOREAN-AMERICAN FAMILY THAT MOVES TO ARKANSAS IN PURSUIT OF

WHWHAT DOES THE WORD MINARI MEAN WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT?

IT'S A PLANT THAT, IN ITS VERY PROFOUND WAY ISAAC, OUR

DIRECTOR, LEE ISAAC CHUNG HAS THIS GREAT STORY ABOUT HOW HIS

GRANDMOTHER PLANTED IT WHEN SHE CAME OVER TO JOIN THE FAMILY

IT DIES IN THE FIRST YEAR AND THRIVES IN THE SECOND.

IT ACTUALLY PURIFIES THE WATER AND THE SOIL AROUND IT.

HE TOLD ME IN ALL THE YEARS THAT HIS DAD TRIED TO DO ALL THESE

DIFFERENT TYPES OF CROPS, THE THING THAT GREW THE BEST WAS HIS

GRANDMOTHER'S MINARI, THEY DIDN'T REEL HAVE TO KEEP AFTER

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