Stephen Park
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139 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Stephen Park’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That was the main memory.
I just remember, I do remember, I feel like I disappointed you because I think you were talking about was it Ren and Stimpy or something? It was a show that you were fascinated by. It was quite Beavis and Butthead at the time. Beavis and Butthead, which I wasn't really watching. And you were asking me about it and I had nothing to say. And I felt like, oh man, what a dud I am.
I felt like it really disappointed you.
Yeah, it was something along that, yeah, it was something like that.
It might have been South Park at the time.
Yeah, you know what happened? I remember I've told this story before, but after they first started screening it, I got a call from Ethan Cohen, and he told me how funny I was. And that was the first time I'm like, what? And it didn't occur to me because I was still so in the character's POV.
I know doing that part, I remember the day I was, I had somehow like put myself in this more emotional torture. I was really, really like, you know, because internally it was like I was screaming in pain.
And then covering it. and then doing the scene. Like, that's kind of how I approached the scene.
And I knew it was weird. I knew it was, you know, next to Mark, you know, and so all of that stuff, I knew it was weird, but to, to hear about how everybody was laughing, it took me a while to wrap my head around and then realized, Oh yeah.
Like, and then I understood it, but it was because, um, yeah, I just was too, too, still too in the characters mindset, um, to, to, to see it from an audience point of view at that point. Yeah. Right.
I think a lot of the characters were based on people they knew growing up, growing up there. And I, um, there was, uh, I think his name was Glenn Yanagida. Um, the actual person, maybe that they grew up with in high school, not that this character is based on him at all. Um, and, um, that's about it.
I mean, because when I did the audition, um, you know, they, of course, you know, they hired me and I remember, um, the, the main thing when I got the job, he was on the set. The main kind of surprise was working with, um, Elizabeth Himmelstein, who was the dialect coach and how hard she was pushing the dialect. Like, no, you want more? Oh yeah. And it sounded so kind of phony.
It sounded like weird. So just going into that and feeling comfortable bending those hours and, and, and, and doing the dialect to that extent, it felt unnatural until it didn't anymore. But as far as the, the scene, I think maybe I was just giving them, I felt like it took me a lot. It was a long road personally to arrive at the character because when I, when the first time,
saw the audition i passed on it because it was described as overweight 40 and like why do they want to see me like i you know yeah um and then it came back and i was like okay and then i flew i was in la at the time so i flew to new york um and uh yeah so i just kind of like as i started um learning more about this character and kind of investigating it It was like, I'm not this character.
I'm not this character. Oh, my God. I am this character.
You know, I don't know if it's ever happened to you as an actor where the role feels like you don't feel connected to it.
And I think a lot of it is because it's like, well, this guy's, you know, you have a judgment about the character.
So once the judgment, I think the judgment somehow dropped and I realized, oh. I am this guy. Because I understood that loneliness. I understood the pain. I understood emotionally this guy. And I know people like this. So I... Once that happened, I feel like I knew the character. And I think the Coen brothers maybe felt like they didn't really need to say much.
Because I felt like I knew this person.
different, it was really more just different setups. But I did, um, you know, when they were on me, there, there was one, I was kind of like finding things with each take, it wasn't like a lot of takes. But, um, you know, the one where I was like, I shouldn't, you know, like, that wasn't kind of improv, like, that was a spontaneous moment. And, um, but it was, I won't say it was a lot.
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