Gold House honored ‘Beef’ showrunner Lee Sung Jin at its third annual One House Toast to the Emmys, where he revealed how a dinner conversation landed Charles Melton for the Netflix anthology’s 16-nominated second season.
Gold House honored ‘Beef’ showrunner Lee Sung Jin at its third annual One House Toast to the Emmys, where he revealed how a dinner conversation landed Charles Melton for the Netflix anthology’s 16-nominated second season.
The third-appetizer version is a great story, but casting a lead rarely hinges on one dinner — there’s an agent, a script, and whatever else he was already up for that month. Did Melton actually read anything before that night, or was this more a formality dressed up as a pitch?