In a latest episode of Selection’s Actors on Actors, Ali Wong sat down with Jason Segel and talked about why she received into appearing from comedy and her expertise engaged on Beef — together with filming the finale episode and what in regards to the collection she’s most pleased with.

Earlier than they received into Beef, Jason, who additionally comes from a comedy background, requested Ali if she had all the time needed to “parlay” into appearing. “Not really,” she replied. “I just wanted to tell jokes for a living.”

Nevertheless, Ali defined that she had been working as a temp for a very long time and that she started appearing in sitcoms in an effort to justify doing unpaid get up units at evening.

As the 2 started speaking about Beef and its escalating feud, Ali revealed that Beef’s script was nonetheless being written as they had been capturing, including that she didn’t even know in regards to the finale whereas filming.

Like Jason then described, the finale episode “so clearly crystallizes the theme that these two people are essentially the same. There are even moments where [Ali’s character Amy and Steven Yeun’s character Danny] switch voices and [are] like, ‘I am you.’”

“And I totally didn’t understand that that’s what was happening,” Ali stated of the voice swap. Whereas the collection creator and finale director, Lee “Sunny” Sung-jin, had Ali memorize Steven’s traces along with her personal, he didn’t inform her why they had been doing so — solely to belief him.

“Have you ever filmed in a forest for a week?” Ali then requested Jason earlier than describing the expertise of filming the finale, calling it “wild.”

As a result of they filmed components of the finale for Beef at 2 a.m., Ali and Steven needed to run round at nighttime. Although Ali acknowledged it appears cool on digicam, she stated that, in actuality, it was terrifying and uncomfortable. “I felt like Shelley Long in Troop Beverly Hills,” she commented.

In contrast to Ali, Steven wasn’t fazed by the situation or timing. “Steven had been on The Walking Dead for seven years in the suburbs of Atlanta at three in the morning, running away from the zombies,” Ali stated.

In actual fact, throughout rehearsals, Steven fell out of Danny’s truck (which had simply crashed over a hill) onto his shoulder and crawled via the grime 3 times. “I was like, ‘You really like doing it?’” Ali informed Jason. “And then [Steven] looked at me and was like, ‘I love it.’”

Referencing Jason’s newest work, Shrink, Ali then joked that she’d a lot moderately play a personality like Harrison Ford’s Dr. Paul Rhoades — sitting for many scenes and cracking jokes.

Later of their dialog, Jason requested Ali what about Beef she’s most pleased with, and she or he stated the solid — notably as a result of Beef has an all-Asian American solid. “I do think that when you have an all-Asian American cast, which is rare, then the people get to be people,” she stated.

“Because, now, when people refer to people in our show, they use other descriptors to describe the characteristics of the person rather than their race,” Ali defined. “Instead of saying, ‘Oh, the Asian husband,’ they’ll say, ‘Oh, the guy who has the sick cardigans, who’s really positive and rides the bicycle.’”