In a recent episode of Variety actors on actorsAli Wong sat down with Jason Segel and talked about why he moved from comedy to acting and his experience working beef – Including filming the finale episode and what it is about the series that he is most proud of.
before they came in beef, Jason, who also comes from a comedy background, asked Ali if she had always wanted to “parley” into acting. “Not really,” she replied. “I just wanted to tell jokes for a living.”
However, Ali explained that she had been working as a temp for a long time and began acting in sitcoms to justify doing unpaid stand-up sets at night.
as soon as the two started talking beef And its escalating feud, Ali reveals beef’The script was still being written during the shooting of the film, adding that he was not even aware of the finale during filming.
Like Jason then described, the final episode “so clearly articulates the theme that these two people are essentially the same. There are moments where [Ali’s character Amy and Steven Yeun’s character Danny] voice switch and [are] Like, ‘I am you.’
“And I didn’t fully understand what was happening,” Ali said of the voice switch. While the series’ producer and finale director, Lee “Sunny” Sung-jin, had Ali memorize Steven’s lines in addition to reciting them, he did not tell her why they were doing it—only to trust her. .
“Have you ever filmed in the woods for a week?” Ali asked Jason before describing the experience of filming the finale, calling it “wild”.
because they filmed parts of the finale beef At 2 a.m., Ali and Steven had to run around in the dark. Although Ali acknowledged that it looked good on camera, she said that in reality, it was unsightly and uncomfortable. “I felt like Shelley Long in Troop Beverly Hillsshe remarked.
Unlike Ali, Steven was not fazed by the place or the time. “Steven was on the walking dead For seven years running from zombies at three in the morning in the suburbs of Atlanta,” Ali said.
In fact, during rehearsal, Steven fell off Danny’s truck (which had just crashed into a hill) onto his shoulder and crawled through the dirt three times. “I was like, ‘Do you really like doing it?’ Ali said to Jason. “And then [Steven] Saw me and was like, ‘I love this.’
Referring to Jason’s latest work, shrinkAli then joked that she would rather play a character like Harrison Ford’s Dr. Paul Rhodes – sitting down for most of the scenes and telling jokes.
Later in their conversation, Jason asks Ali about beef He’s most proud of it, and he told the cast – especially because beef is an all-Asian American artist. “I think when you have an Asian American artist, which is rare, people become people,” she said.
“Because, now, when people refer to people in our show, they use other descriptors to describe the person’s characteristics rather than their race,” Ali explained. “Instead of saying, ‘Oh, the Asian husband,’ they’ll say, ‘Oh, the guy with the sick cardigan, who’s really positive and rides a bicycle.'”