“It actually took a lot of weights off of me.
I didn’t even know that I had all these weights on me when I went there.”
This is what sets the movie apart its insight into the human condition.
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I’m just like, ‘I’m up now.
What do I want to eat?’
“It’s a journey and I do see it shifting; things likeParasitehelp,” he says.
“It helps inform people like, ‘This is a film where it’s just people being people.
It just happens to be a different culture.'”
The actor struggles to find the exact words.
“It was a reflection of a lot of our families.”
He continues, “It was therapeutic.
It was, at times, so gratefully teaching.
I could go on for hours about all the lessons I learned.”
Understandably, then, Yeun has been thinking about mortality a lot in the context of his new film.
“Then after that, even stranger, the entire world feels mortal now.
So [Minari] feels like this strange, sad, but also hopeful extension of Sundance.
I don’t know.”
He trails off a bit.
“It’s really all the same.
It’s all deeply, humanly the same,” he says.
“Why don’t we just cut to that chase?”
