‘Beef’ Series Creator Lee Sung Jin Reflects on Show and ‘Roller Coaster’ Year: ‘It Felt Really Special’
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor It’s been a ride for “Beef” creator, writer and director Lee Sung Jin and the cast — the series dominated the Emmy Awards with five wins, and nabbed two SAG Awards for stars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.
While a second season has yet to be announced, Lee is making good use of his Notes app, inspired by his surroundings. Lee spoke with Variety about his year and receiving Gold House’s Icon Award. It’s been a year since “Beef” dropped on Netflix and became this phenomenon, what have the past 12 months been like for you? The last 12 months have been quite a roller coaster.
A lot of high highs — getting to go through the release and awards season with Steve and Ali and all our collaborators, it’s felt really special.
They’re some of my best friends now, and to be able to experience that together was really wonderful. But juxtaposed that with lows, that sort of puts everything into context.
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