And the legacy of that still lives with us.” And, heading into the festival, Weiner was the most-buzzed documentary due to the presence on-screen of Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, one of presidential candidate Hilary Clinton’s top aides. You can watch this film and see there are systems that were in place that were corrupt and corrupted people. Said Turner at the film’s Q&A, “I made this film for one reason - in the hope of creating change agents. With its record-breaking, $17.5 million sale to Fox Searchlight, The Birth of a Nation had dominated conversation at the festival earlier in the week. Josh Kriegman and Elye Sternberg’s Weiner, a documentary about beleaguered NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, scored the U.S. Grand Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award last night at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival closing awards ceremony. The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker’s transporting historical drama about Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion, won the U.S. We also took trips to Yosemite or even to Mammoth to ski and snowboard.ĭISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.Sundance Film Festival 2016, The Birth of a Nation, Weiner You can get from the beach to snow in a day. One of the great things about California is all the terrains. Those are the kinds of road trips I remember – up and down California mostly. Later, when we moved to L.A., we went up to San Francisco to visit. Q: What kind of family trips did you take as a child?Ī: I was born in San Francisco, so we would come down to Los Angeles to visit relatives. Eating food from different areas is a lot of fun as well. I love different cultures and seeing how different and alike people are. Q: Where would you like to go that you have never been to before?Ī: I would love to go to Europe. Me and a few of the cast members of “Cobra Kai” were planning on going. Q: If you had travel plans for 2020 and had to cancel, where were they to?Ī: I was going to go to Europe and Japan and maybe Korea. That’s kind of how I learned Korean again – subtitles. Then I had to learn how to read Korean to understand what was going on. What kind of studying did you do?Ī: I watched a lot of Spanish and Chinese films that were subtitled in Korean. Q: Languages are so difficult to learn as adults. After I fell in love with Korean films like Park Chan-Wook’s “Oldboy,” I started to relearn Korean, because I wanted to pursue all options. By that point, I couldn’t even say a whole sentence in Korean. Then later in life, English was my main language and then Spanish. And it’s so safe!Ī: Korean was my first language because of my grandma’s input and then English was my second language. When I came back to America, I was told I was too Asian for a leading role. So I couldn’t really break into a lot of the roles that I wanted. But in Korea, no one saw me as a full Korean, because I did have a thick (American) accent. In China and Japan, they viewed me as a Korean guy. Q: What are some of your memories of working in Asia?Ī: There was a completely different vibe working in China, Japan and Korea. It’s getting better, but it’s still not that good. (Asian actors) there could pursue anything, whether it be an athlete, lawyer, president or janitor. What was it like for you?Ī: At the beginning of my career, I did want to go to mainland Asia to pursue work. Q: So many Asian Americans started their careers overseas, because they couldn’t find work in the U.S. All I know is that I am open to helping out our community in any way, whether it’s talking about mental illness and depression or representation. Asian Americans especially seem to have a tough time with this. It starts from there and then we can address everything else. It’s so important to acknowledge that we deserve to be loved. What would you tell people who are struggling?Ī: As BTS said, love yourself. Fans may interact with him on Instagram and Twitter. “I jumped at this opportunity and thank the producers for trying to push the envelope.” The winner of Sundance’s Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance for his portrayal of a gay teenager in “Spa Night,” Seo recently was a guest speaker at Georgia Tech, where he talked about Asian American representation in the media. “It goes against the grain of the way Asians are portrayed,” he said from Atlanta, where he was working. Born and raised in California, Seo said one of the reasons he loves his role as Kyler – the school bully who’s a wrestler, not a martial arts expert – on “Cobra Kai,” is because it’s such a different role for an Asian American man. One of Joe Seo’s goals as an actor has been to portray well-rounded characters that aren’t Asian stereotypes.
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