Lee Sung Jin On The Spirituality Of Netflix’s ‘Beef’

0:00Letting go is actually the thing.

0:03Yeah.

0:03But we keep forgetting.

0:05Lee Sung Jin.

0:06Lee Sung Jin, the creator of the hit Netflix show Beef.

0:10He has other television products in development with A24FX and Landscape.

0:14You've expanded your aperture and you're tackling much deeper existential questions about what it is to be human.

0:20Danny says in season one, you know, Rothbottom can be your trampoline, which was, you know, just ripped from the headlines of my life.

0:27And I just started re-examining everything, like, just intentionality.

0:30Like, what's my intention as a friend, as a son, you know, as a writer?

0:36I'm actually sort of glad everything happened the way it did because, you know, what a privilege it is to get to take pain and then, you know, make art out of it.

0:49What would the 12-year-old version of you think if he knew that one day he was going to be writing X-Men and getting Emmy nominations?

0:59It's not as if, like, from day one, you were thinking you were going to be a writer and a filmmaker.