Steven Yeun might be caught up in the mother of all feuds in his new series, Beef, but don’t expect his own past to be littered with thwarted enemies. ‘I’m allergic to beefing - it’d break my heart,’ he reveals with a mellow smile, dark-rimmed glasses framing his face. It’s hard to imagine why anyone would ever have a problem with the Korean-American actor, who radiates an air of laid-back warmth as Total Film catches up with him over Zoom.
He’s poles apart from his character, Danny, in the Netflix and A24 comedy, a down-onhis-luck construction worker who becomes hell-bent on getting revenge after he’s involved in a heated road-rage incident with Amy (Ali Wong). ‘He’s a broken guy,’ says Yeun from Los Angeles. ‘He’s someone that doesn’t understand why people don’t understand him. He tries to move about in his personal truth, but the reflection he gets from the world is
