With their nods for Very best Feminine Actor and Very best Male Actor in a Restricted Sequence, Pork costars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun changed into the primary Asian American citizens to take house Golden Globe awards of their respective classes.
An emotional Wong, who used to be going via a divorce from husband Justin Hakuta whilst filming the Netflix display, referred to her ex as her “best friend” in her acceptance speech on Sunday, January 7, and thanked him for his “love and support.”
Mins later, Yeun took the degree to assert his statuette and cited emotions of “isolation” and “separateness” right through his lifestyles — then cracked, “I just realized that feels like the plot of Frozen.”
Within the significantly acclaimed collection, Wong and Yeun — longtime pals who additionally costarred as voice actors within the 2019 animated Netflix collection Tuca & Bertie — play strangers from reverse facets of the category divide who change into entangled in a deadly sport of cat and mouse after a highway rage war of words in a car park. Whilst the display is full of darkish comedy, it additionally places the characters via an emotional wringer, giving each actors the chance to flex their dramatic chops.
Showrunner Lee Sung Jin, who used to be additionally a author on Tuca & Bertie, at the start envisioned Wong’s personality as an older white guy. However after talking to the actress concerning the undertaking as pals, he started to consider a personality formed after her — a hit and bold, of Chinese language and Vietnamese descent — would make the tale a lot richer.
In spite of the trio’s historical past, Wong used to be nonetheless not sure the casting resolution would paintings, for the reason that she and Yeun had by no means been on digital camera in combination.
“It was kinda scary,” she advised Selection ultimate 12 months. “But I remember it being, like, electric after the first time we read together. I didn’t know what kind of actor Steven was and if he was gonna, like, throw a donut at my head in between takes, just because he’d be really into the animosity of it all? That was, like, a legit concern. And, uh, no! He didn’t. He was very loving and sweet in between takes.”
Pork additionally took house the Golden Globe for Very best Restricted Sequence, Anthology Sequence or Movement Image Made for Tv.