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  • ♪♪♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY.

  • WE'RE BACK FOR THE STAR TO HAVE THE NEW FILM "MINARI," STEVEN

  • YEUN.

  • YOU GOT TO GO TO THE PREMIERE WITH YOUR OWN FATHER AND SIT

  • NEXT TO HIM.

  • >> MM-HMM.

  • >> Stephen: HOW YOU PARENTS WITH YOU HAVING AN ACTING

  • CAREER?

  • ARE THEY FULLY SUPPORTIVE?

  • >> WELL, NOW THEY, ARE YOU KNOW.

  • NOW THEY ARE.

  • BUT, I MEAN, IT WAS REALLY SURREAL TO, LIKE, HAVE -- YOU

  • KNOW, AS A SECOND GENERATION KID, YOU KNOW, ALL YOU REALLY

  • WANT TO DO IS TELL YOUR PARENTS THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THEM AND

  • TELL THEM THE STORY THAT PERHAPS THEY CAN'T TELL THEMSELVES.

  • AND, SO, TO BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS WAS REALLY

  • INCREDIBLE, YOU KNOW, TO READ THAT SCRIPT AND READ SOMETHING

  • THAT YOU WANTED TO SAY YOUR WHOLE LIFE AND THEN TO BE ABLE

  • TO MAKE IT AND TO BE ABLE TO TAKE IT TO SUNDANCE AND HAVE

  • YOUR CAD SIT NEXT TO YOU WHILE YOU'RE WATCHING IT, THAT'S

  • LIKE -- WHO GETS TO DO THAT, YOU KNOW?

  • IT'S INCREDIBLE.

  • >> Stephen: THAT'S BEAUTIFUL.

  • THAT'S BEAUTIFUL.

  • HOW DID YOU FIRST TELL HIM YOU WANTED TO BE AN ACTOR?

  • WAS THERE SOME OTHER PLAN THEY HAD IN MIND FOR YOU?

  • >> YEAH, I MEAN, I'M A KOREAN KID SO I HAD TO DO LAW SCHOOL OR

  • MED SCHOOL OR ANY OTHER MORE SCHOOL THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE

  • WITH.

  • BBUT I JUST BROKE MY PARENTS DOW EARLY, JUST DEFIED THEM FROM AN

  • EARLY AGE.

  • ONCE I TOLD THEM I WANTED TO MOVE TO CHICAGO FOR IMPROV, THEY

  • ACTUALLY LET ME MOVE AS LONG AS I WOULD GET A JOB.

  • I GOT A JOB DOING INSIDE SALES AT A I.T. TECH CONSULTING FIRM,

  • AND I PROMPTLY LEFT A MONTH AFTER THEY FOUND OUT I WAS

  • BLOGGING ABOUT HOW STRANGE IT WAS ON THE INSIDE, AND THAT WAS

  • NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR ME.

  • SO LEARNING LESSONS.

  • >> Stephen: I THINK QUITTING YOUR DAY JOB IS THE BEST

  • POSSIBLE THING YOU CAN DO AS AN IMPROV COMEDIAN BECAUSE YOU'VE

  • GOT TO CUT THE SAFETY ROPE AND JUST --

  • >> YOU DO.

  • >> Stephen: YEAH.

  • WELL, THAT'S THE ADVICE WE HAVE FOR ALL YOU YOUNG PEOPLE OUT

  • THERE -- TAKE ENORMOUS RISKS WITH YOUR LIFE, IT WORKS OUT.

  • TWO OUT OF TWO TIMES, IT WORKS.

  • >> IT'S ALMOST LIKE IT HAPPENS 100% OF THE TIME.

  • >> Stephen: THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT.

  • WELL, IS IT MINARI, IS THAT HOW YOU SAY IT?

  • >> YEA, "MINARI" >> STEPHEN: "MINARI" WILL BE IN

  • SELECT THEATERS THIS FRIDAY AND AVAILABLE ON DEMAND FEBRUARY

  • 26TH.

  • STEVEN YEUN, EVERYBODY!

  • WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.

  • THANKS, STEVEN.

♪♪♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY.

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