The controversy over Choe's casting could have been avoided if the show's creators didn't rely on nepotism in choosing him.
would be without Choe; with his unwaveringly barking line delivery, he wasn’t a particularly good performer anyway. , he cast Choe over hundreds of actors because he sawand thought he embodied a wounded aggression that fit the part of Isaac. After texting Yeun and Wong, both friends of Choe’s, to ask if he would consider acting, Lee cast him on the basis of his self-tape.
This choice exemplifies a few pitfalls of typical Hollywood casting. Nepotism prevails over equal opportunity — Choe got the part because he knew someone, not because he had any acting experience. And yet creator mythology masks this nepotism as a bold artistic choice; Lee explained that all of the previous actors he auditioned hammed up the “Korean mafioso” element of the character without understanding Isaac’s vulnerability, and thus he had to go with Choe.
Nepotism prevails over equal opportunity — Choe got the part because he knew someone, not because he had any acting experience. Meanwhile, “stunt casting” — the placement of a nonactor celebrity in an onscreen role to boost a movie or TV show’s hype — has become an practice in recent years. It’s a useful marketing strategy. A star like Harry Styles will bring his own built-in audience to screenings of
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