Beef’s Steven Yeun and Ali Wong on 'trippy' finale
Beef spoilers follow.
Beef just dropped on Netflix, telling the story of a duo who get involved in a road rage incident and can't let it go, so escalate their feud to bigger and bigger levels.
It all builds up to them being in the desert, fighting over a gun, but eventually they try to work together to find their way back to civilisation. Along the way, they eat what they think are some harmless berries, but the berries end up sending them on a trip that allows them to understand each other, and themselves.
Speaking about the scene in an exclusive interview with Digital Spy, lead actors Steven Yeun and Ali Wong walked us through what it was like filming it.
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"It's fun," Wong said. "There were so many (great moments). The one on the rocks, the one with the oatmeal in our mouth, or the one where we're lying down with branches on top of our bodies."
"It was fun," Yuen agreed. "It was like having a conversation. We were in it. We shot it at night at like 2am or 3am. It felt very real."
Wong added: "I do remember in one of the scenes when we were tripping out – we did one take, and you tried it, and you were hugging your knees, and you were sort of shivering. You were really afraid. And then I was like, 'Oh, we’re doing that?! I don’t know if I can do that!' I was like, 'Ah!'
"And then we found another level. But you were so real. It scared me... I was really transformed into this whole other state. I was like, 'Uh oh. We’re going there?'"
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"But it was also so perfect how you did it, too," Yeun said. "That’s something that was so fun – they’re such opposites. Amy, in that condition, is also just chilling and trying to keep it together and do her thing. And Danny, he's a scared child. He's just like, 'Get me the fuck out of here. I’m so scared.'"
The finale is actually the first episode of television that Yeun has ever directed, and he admitted to being really happy that people thought it was a good one.
Beef is available to stream in full on Netflix now.
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