“I won’t speak for other Asian American actors, because I don’t know what they’re being offered,” Yeun continued. “But for me, it’s like: nice guy, dependable, supportive, benign. Beige. And as a Korean man, I am not beige.”
“I felt like there wasn’t space for me to fully spread all of who I was, and that was partly due to me, too, because when I started, all I was trying to do was to work within the parameters that they were giving me. And then, over time, I just outgrew it.”