‘Beef’ Stars Ali Wong & Steven Yeun Talk Adrenaline On Set; Creator Lee Sung Jin On Securing That Hoobastank Needle Drop And Season 2 Ideas – Contenders TV
deadline.comThe premiere episode of Netflix’s Beef ends with a needle drop of Hoobastank’s “The Reason.” The track plays as Ali Wong’s Amy runs down the street after Steven Yeun’s Danny, who has just posed as a contractor to get inside her home and pay her back after the series’ inciting road rage incident.
The perfectly fitting song wasn’t so easy to get, requiring a personal email to the band from creator Lee Sung Jin. “Dear Hoobastank,” Lee joked during Deadline’s Contenders Television panel, where he was joined by both Wong and Yeun. “I wrote a huge love letter just talking about how much I was into the band in college.
They don’t let you use the original master, because they were all under horrible record deals. And so they all try to push the rerecord, and the rerecord just you know, it doesn’t hold up the same.
Everyone’s older and and whatnot. But they they really responded to the show and allowed us to use it.” Beef tells the story of Amy and Danny’s downward spiral as they allow their anger and bitterness to overtake their lives, going to lengths that surely are fueled by more than just a road rage incident — as brutal as L.A.
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