Steven Yeun Was First Attracted to Indie Film ‘Bubble & Squeak’ Because of an Email Titled ‘Cabbages’: The Script Was ‘Such a Wild Swing’

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William Earl All it took Steven Yeun to first get interested in the film “Bubble & Squeak” was a well-titled email. “I got an email in 2020 from one of my agents and the title was just ‘Cabbages,'” he says. “It had this wonderful script.

I read it and thought it was so bold and such a wild swing — something that I’d never read before.” These stories and more engaged the audience at the Variety & Adobe Anatomy of a Film panel at Sundance with the team behind “Bubble & Squeak.” The discussion included actor and producer Yeun, director and screenwriter Evan Twohy, producer Christina Oh and actors Himesh Patel and Sarah Goldberg.

Angelique Jackson, Variety‘s senior entertainment writer, moderated the lively panel. Yeun was excited at the potential of helping a unique story like “Bubble & Squeak” get made. “I wanted to help usher from my point of view the film to reveal itself, what I read on the page to just be realized,” he says. “That was my trust in Evan.

Then, just coming together and playing the part that I had to play. I wanted to make sure that I was contributing and not doing anything beyond just sitting in my lane too.