“I’m almost more free when I’m there than when I’m in front of the camera, because I’m just an actor there. “Voiceover work, for me, has been a strange thing,” he said. I realize how hellish it can be when I’m doing something that I don’t believe in, that is retreading territory.”Īs for doing voiceovers, Yeun said that it provided him with the opportunity to escape the expectations that come with being cast as Asian American characters. That is still scary, but it makes you a little bit braver to pass on things. “You get the cushion of having some income that you can save for a rainy day.
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“I had the luxury of being on a TV show,” he said.
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He’s been doing a flurry of voiceover work - for “Voltron” and “Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters,” among others - but has been more selective about movie roles. With that thinking in mind, he passed on a lot of projects. I fed into it and I believed in it, too - until I got out.” That person was inherently trapped in whatever people thought he was. “And I’m like, ‘No, that’d be horrible.’ That was so long ago. “Sometimes people pitch to me, ‘Dude, wouldn’t it be so cool if you did a Glenn origin movie?’” he said. He has no interest in returning to play Glenn, even if the opportunity came up. “And you go, ‘Holy shit, I am in charge of my life. “You get out of that show, and you’re about to have a kid, and you’re an adult now,” he said. “You get swallowed up by whatever the thing that you’re a part of.” After the show, he became a father. “I left ‘Walking Dead’ and I kind of had an existential crisis - not because I longed to be back there, but because I was made to feel the loneliness of life, which is that decisions aren’t made for you,” he said. With more time to consider that period, Yeun is looking at the bigger picture. Also, there’s something very beautiful about the end, turning the page and closing the book.” It was just the story, and you service the story. “In hindsight, it was just a natural end,” he said, recalling Glenn’s grisly death scene at the start of Season 7. Having appeared in two acclaimed festival films this year - the Cannes-winning “Burning” and Boots Riley’s Sundance sensation “Sorry to Bother You” - he said he had gone from acceptance to appreciation for the opportunity to leave “Walking Dead” for good. Nevertheless, he’s put the whirlwind experience of the AMC hit behind him, and said that fewer people stop him on the street to discuss it these days. “I’m still really close with all the co-stars, so I get the down-low on what’s going on.” “I don’t watch it as much,” he said in an interview in New York, where he was promoting his role in Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s “ Burning” at the New York Film Festival. But he’s not always up to speed on the show. Two years after his character Glenn Rhee died on “ The Walking Dead,” Steven Yeun still talks to his former co-stars.
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