Steven Yeun, the lead actor in the movie’Minari’, opened his mouth about the’nationality controversy’ in the movie.
On the 27th, Cine21 released a video interview of Stephen Yeon and Yoo Ah-in. The two actors who had a relationship with the movie’Burning’ shared their feelings about the movie’Minari’ in a comfortable atmosphere in their own homes.
Steven Yeon said, “I think this is not a Korean movie,” and expressed his thoughts on the’nationality controversy’ in the movie. He pointed out that “in the US, we tried to frame this movie as a Korean movie,” he said and said, “I hope’Minari’ is an American movie, and I want it to go beyond the definition of a Korean movie.”
Earlier, there was a controversy about’racism’ over the selection of’Minari’ as a’foreign movie’ by the Golden Globe Awards. Even though the director and the leading actor were both Americans and production took place in the United States, more than half of the conversations in the film were not English, so they were only nominated for the’Foreign Language Film Awards’ and were excluded from the screening for the film.
‘Buttercup’ won the’Best Foreign Language Film Award’ at the 78th Golden Globe Awards on the 28th (local time).
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In an interview, Yoo Ah-in said, “I want to call’Minari’ as love. It’s a movie that gives the feeling of wanting to hug.”
Steven Yeon mentioned the actors Yoon Yeo-jung and Han Ye-ri who appeared together and said, “I was very lucky to act together.” When Yoo-in said, “Yeo-jung Yoon has won about 10 million awards,” he laughed, saying, “You’re swimming on the award.”
Yoon Yeo-jung won the 26th Best Supporting Actor Award at various awards ceremonies in the United States through’Buttercup’. Currently, American media are nominating him as a leading candidate for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, which is raising anticipation. The Academy Awards, where the results are announced, is scheduled to be held on the 25th of next month.
Meanwhile,’Buttercup’ will be released in Korea on the 3rd.