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Steven Yeun refused lead roles after ‘The Walking Dead’ that felt too similar
Steven Yeun has said that he turned down lead roles after The Walking Dead because they felt too similar to his part on the show.The actor, who played Glenn Rhee on the AMC hit from 2010 to 2016, recently opened up about his career in independent film since.Reflecting on his job starring in Sorry To Bother You, directed by Boots Riley and Bong Joon-ho’s Okja, Yeun said he was grateful for parts that “didn’t want to put me in a box”.He explained to Entertainment Weekly: “The things that came for me after Walking Dead were actually great projects that were asking me to be the lead, they were asking me to lead a television show, but for some reason, when I would read the synopsis, it still felt adjacent to Glenn, the character that I played,
