Charles Yu
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Okay, yeah, I hear Joe Biden's hanging them out right now. Grace Kuhlman-Smith, everyone.
Book banning fever is sweeping America, but is it possible that book banning may not be great? Michael Kosta has more.
Thank you. Amazing. Yeah, thanks for coming on the show. Thank you for having me. Man, it's so good to see you again. The first time I met you was on this show. It is, yes. All those years ago. When you were on with Trevor. Yeah, that was Trevor. And you came back. It was really nice. No, I come back to meet all the Asians. only.
Yeah, so you were my showrunner and executive producer on this TV show. And there was a lot of stuff I couldn't ask you at the time. But now that you're a guest on my show, I got some questions for you. First of all, between me, Chloe Bennett, and Jimmy O. Yang, who got paid the most? You don't have to be specific, but just indicate who was the highest paid one and I'll be sure. Okay.
Taika Waititi. Oh, Taika. Yeah, okay. That makes sense. Oh, yeah. Taika was also the director of the pilot and he was the EP on the show as well. And you have a working relationship with him? I do.
But how did you get to work with him?
Oh, so he actually worked on this based on the strength of, it wasn't a pre-existing relationship. It was something you showed him your work on this project. Right. I think so. Yeah. I don't know. No, it must have been, right? You didn't know him before. You're too modest. You don't understand. You showed him the project and it wasn't like you guys were friends before.
A little bit before.
And how was it like working with him? I asked you last. I asked myself. That scene is... How was it? Oh, it was great. It was great. I thought he was great. I thought he came and he was so creatively free. I've never seen someone who was that... I think we all aspire to be as free creatively as him.
I mean, it's a creative collaboration, but it was me, really. I remember when that... No, I'm just saying.
Well, I mean, we kind of launched into it, but, you know, the problem is, like, I feel like I did the press tour with you for this show, and everyone wants, like, the elevator pitch for this show, which is so annoying, because it's just like, tell me in five seconds, or I won't watch it. But now that we have time, and this is my show now, so freaking, you know, f*** the elevator pitch.
Like, tell us what the show's about.
I don't know if I can get my leg up here. Thanks for trying to sell that. I didn't need you to... We sell these socks enough on this show. Everyone's really angry about it. Paramount's trying to take a cut of this. What's the non-elevator pitch for this show?
Right. And how much money did Jimmy make on this show per episode? He's still going at it. Yeah. Okay. So, because this will help my contract negotiations. If I... Did he get a companion ticket for this? Could you bring, because sometimes I try to bring my wife on the, you know. Yeah. Let's talk about the, we'll do the contract stuff after.
One thing I really love about this book is that it's not written, in my opinion, it's not written in a traditional narrative. And as someone who, narrative structure, I mean, you know, because it starts off as a screenplay and then it kind of, you know, it becomes like a, I don't want to spoil it, but it becomes almost like a legal drama.
In my opinion, it doesn't, as someone who's, or anyone out there who's watching, who's trying to write something original, it's kind of out of a template, you know, because oftentimes when we're making stuff now, I feel like we're just kind of reduced to filling in a template. for how a story should go, act one, act two, act three, you know, whatever the Dan Harmon hero's journey.
So how did you manage to break out of that rule, you know, when you're writing this book?
Right. And it's also rare that someone who, you know, wrote the book on it and it got adapted into a TV series. It's kind of rare for like the author of the book to be so intimately involved in the making of the TV show, you know, not just show running, but actually writing it. with a team of writers, but you were head writing it. So, I mean, would you have trusted anyone else to adapt this?
I guess is the question.
I got a few more questions for you here. I think this is the only time we'll ever be able to talk about this on American TV, but why is it so difficult talking about being an Asian man in America?
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