'Beef' Creator Lee Sung Jin Teases What Season 2 Could Look Like | IKLIJ2Y | 2024-01-21 13:08:01
The miniseries Beef racked up eight Emmy Awards this month, but its future remains unsure.
The present's creator, Lee Sung Jin — who earned Emmys for each writing and directing at the Monday, January 15, awards present — continues to be ready for season 2 to be greenlit.
"I understand how the enterprise is contracting, and it looks like it will get more durable and more durable yearly for us writers to get something to the end line, so I don't take these opportunities as a right," Lee, 42, informed The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, January 17, after confirming that the subsequent installment depends on Netflix and A24's go-ahead. "In the event that they stated, 'Hey, let's go on to season 2 and make an anthology,' I'd be ready."
Season 1 of Beef adopted two strangers — played by Steven Yeun and Ali Wong — looking for revenge on each other after their involvement in a street rage incident. Both Yeun, 40, and Wong, 41, gained Emmy Awards for greatest appearing in a restricted or anthology collection or movie for their lead roles.
As for whether or not a attainable second season would happen in the identical universe — or see Yeun and Wong return — Lee hasn't made up his thoughts yet.
"For season 2, it's exhausting to even imagine whether or not it's the identical universe until we actually start to excavate and see what needs to rear its head," Lee stated. "After which we'll chase it, and if that includes the same universe or some fun little callback, great, however that might be decorative to all of it. I actually need to look into the abyss and see what's staring back first."
When asked about continuing to discover Asian American characters in future installments, Lee advised THR he is "undoubtedly open" to the thought.
"Going forward, whether we're given a chance to proceed Beef or something else, I just need to do my greatest to continually be trustworthy and be myself. If the narrative is looking for exploring extra of my Korean Americanness, nice," he advised the outlet. "If it's exploring extra of my Koreanness, that's additionally cool. If it's exploring extra of my love for early aughts screamo, that's nice too. I feel what Beef has proven is that we may be ourselves and be actually specific and still reach a common viewers."
With a lot up in the air, one thing is for certain — any future seasons of Beef will keep on theme.
"The theme will all the time be 'beef,' and there's a lot beef on the earth," Lee informed TheWrap on Tuesday, January 16. "There's definitely quite a bit written in my notes app about issues which have happened to me over my life or issues that I've observed that I'd love to tap into."
Lee beforehand admitted that the thought for Beef got here from an actual expertise he had where a fellow driver cursed and honked at him earlier than driving off.
</figure> </a> "I was like, 'I'll comply with you,'" Lee recalled of the incident during an April 2023 conversation with Today.com. "I justified it [as], 'I'm commuting residence and this individual occurs to be in front of me and if we go in several instructions, I wouldn't comply with them.' But we happened to be going the same path house, for like miles and miles. It was like 30 to 40 minutes. So, I'm positive in his thoughts … it felt like I was only a wild lunatic stalking him."
Lee further reflected on how Beef mirrored his personal experience whereas accepting the Emmy for Best Limited Series on Monday.
"Plenty of the suicidal ideation in this present was based mostly on stuff that I and a few of the people up right here have struggled with through the years," he stated. "So, I'm actually grateful and humbled by everyone who watched the present and reached out about their very own private struggles."
Together with profitable massive on the Emmys, Beef took house a number of trophies on the 2024 Golden Globes on January 7, together with Greatest Limited or Anthology Collection or Tv Movie and individual wins for Yeun and Wong.
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