“Amy represents more than a pretty woman, to Paul,” he says. It’s a perfect example of how Beef defies our expectations, and Mazino reveals that Paul was immediately taken with not just Amy’s looks but her accomplishments.
When he discovers that Amy has been deceitful, I was surprised that Paul didn’t flip out. When Paul and Amy start DMing on Instagram, she uses a fake picture, and Paul falls hard. This is a very prototypical, Korean-American man who feels very lost but he is free because he is starting with a fresh slate as a first or second gen kid.” Because I related to the character when I was younger, I really tried to bring as much complexity to Paul as I could. When Paul does have that swag, that was his younger self that never bore fruit. Paul stayed in this boundary that Danny has set for him, and he keeps Paul there. Maybe he thought the world was a lot bigger and scarier, and he couldn’t handle it. That kid he was, when you see him in the flashbacks, was kind of killed off after that whole thing. “In episode eight or nine when it’s revealed that his college applications were thrown out and his entire life was grounded to a halt, he never left that spot. “He’s in his late twenties, and if you passed some judgement on him, you could call him a man-child,” he says. Instead of leaning into Paul’s manbaby nature, Mazino fights against it and paints a portrait of a young man who wants to break free of everyone’s expectations. Because he is often the youngest in the room, his brother, and even Amy, talk to him as if he is a kid. At the end of the day, I have to realize that I am not playing myself, and finding that delineation between my spirit and Paul’s. It was vulnerable to portray that honesty, because it’s almost too close to me, in some ways. I feel like I am on a dopamine cycle, and I have had moments where I felt disillusioned. “Paul, coming from Korean-American culture like myself, I know what his mindset is like. “In some ways, it feels very revealing, but it’s also a meta experience,” Mazino says. For some it’s difficult to get out of your own way, but Mazino felt he could bring something to the character because he felt a kinship with Paul. Mazino has stated that he connected to the character description of Paul, but I wanted to know what it felt like to play something so close to one another. It’s a journey of self-discovery, and Mazino delivers one of the most relatable turns of the series. As Paul falls harder and harder for Amy, we see him naturally come into his own and reject the labels that others have thrust upon him. He’s not distracted Wong’s Amy, but he is on the inside track. As Steven Yeun and Ali Wong escalate their feud between one another, Paul is working a personal angle from the sidelines. There is spark that emanates from Young Mazino’s Paul all throughout Netflix’s Beef. Download: Young Mazino On Paul Being Set Free From His Brother's Influence on 'Beef'
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