Steven Yeun faces off against Ali Wong in the trailer for Netflix and A24’s Beef
Road rage takes center stage in the upcoming dark comedy series starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong
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After Steven Yeun and Ali Wong both provided voices for the animated series Tuca & Bertie, the two actors will now be seen sharing the screen. However, instead of playing one of TV’s most wholesome and supportive couples, they’ll be at each others’ throats after a road rage incident gets out of hand.
Produced by A24 for Netflix, the 10-episode series delves into the characters’ own personal resentments that boil over and become directed at each other. In the new trailer, the tension grows until Wong’s character Amy is seen brandishing a pistol at her phone in what’s sure to be a much-memed moment, though per a recent profile of Wong in The Hollywood Reporter, the gun also gets put to a much different use. Meanwhile, Yeun’s character Danny, a contractor struggling to find work, seems to have a disturbing fixation on fire.
“I have a very full life that I’d love to get back to,” Amy tells Danny. “I’m gonna find you and take what little you have.”
Directed by Lodge 49 vet Jake Schreier, Beef also co-stars Joseph Lee, Young Mazino, David Choe, Patti Yasutake, Maria Bello, Ashley Park, Justin H. Min, Mia Serafino, and Remy Holt.
Wong is already highly visible on Netflix, after producing three stand-up specials for the streamer and starring in the rom-com Always Be My Maybe. Tuca & Bertie began as a Netflix series before it was picked up by Adult Swim and subsequently canceled a second time. Wong is also a voice actor on Big Mouth and its spin-off Human Resources.
Yeun already has his next collaboration with Schreier lined up. The Nope actor will be making his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a mysterious villain in Thunderbolts, scheduled to hit theaters in July 2024. Yeun recently shared with Empire that the opportunity to work with Schreier again was a major part of the role’s appeal.
Beef arrives on Netflix on April 6.
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Looks great! Wong’s such a likeable actress, and Yeun’s always great.Also: “What if you’re going to a job interview, and I’m the boss?”
“Don’t you know how to drive?”“No!”
I don’t know what any of this shit is and I’m fucking scared!
“It hurts?”“Yeah! It does hurt, actually!”
I love it. We NEED to address the rage in our country. I drive around 25k miles/year in the city. People are out to kill each other. Believe me, the next riot ain’t gonna be pretty. I’ve seen some things that tell me if Americans could get away with it, they would be killing each other left and right. Don’t tell me otherwise. I’ve read the comment sections.
The Oscars really solidified my stance that: if it’s A24, it’ll be good.
Does it end with Danny having his head bashed in with a baseball bat?
They’ll do a fake-out and drag it out for the entire movie.
The second season will be Ali Wong chasing a frightened Yeun across the country. It will be called “Chicken”
Patti Yasutake – Nice to see that nurse Ogawa is still working!Oddly enough, the mention of Yeun’s character being a contractor and having a fixation on fire reminded me of a story I read on a forum, in a thread about odd people that the members had worked for. Someone’s manager at a construction materials yard had a fire enthusiasm, to the point where he’d have employees gather scraps and build bonfires so that he could watch them outside of his office window.The manager was a WWII vet, a Marine who’d operated a flamethrower.