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.
Around here the deals that stick get made over a table with too many appetizers, not in some glass conference room — I’ve watched casting conversations start exactly like that and go nowhere for months. What stands out is Melton saying yes before the entrées even landed, because that kind of speed usually means the script did the work, not the dinner.