Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen “Minari’s” Steven Yeun first saw Lee Issac Chung’s script for the film, the words deeply resonated with him. “It spoke very confidently and it didn’t need anything outside of it to justify the story,” he tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “It was really about this family and their point of view.”With the theme of family resilience at its core, the message of “Minari” has struck a chord with Academy voters, audiences and critics alike.
The film received six Oscar nominations including acting nods for Yeun and Yuh-Jung Youn, with the latter hotly tipped to take home the prize for best supporting actress on Sunday night.Variety’s Jazz Tangcay recently spoke to the two actors for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation..
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