When we caught up with Steven Yeun by phone to talk all things Nope, he shared that the key to horror, to him, is that “when you go through that genre, on the other end, there’s just these people left in their humanity.”
Photo: JC Olivera/Getty Images Nope takes place 40 miles north of Hollywood in the arid hills of Agua Dulce, where there’s space for horse ranches and for flying saucers to lurk in the clouds and go largely unnoticed. But show business still exudes a gravitational pull on all the characters, and none more so than Ricky “Jupe” Park, the former child star played by Steven Yeun.
Well, not to get too heavy about it, but for me, the transformation is more internal. What happens when you get confirmation that there’s life outside, even if it’s an amoeba? What does that do to you? What does that do to every structure that we’ve ever relied on? I have no idea, but that’s always the fascinating part to me.
When Keke Palmer’s character puts together who Jupe is — “Oh, you were the Asian kid in Kid Sheriff!” — I thought of the story in your GQ profile from last year where someone says something similar to you on the street: “Hey, it’s the Asian guy from The Walking Dead!” It’s recognition plus the implicit loneliness of being the one.
I think he’s just deeply caught in other people’s projections about who he is. And part of where the agency comes from with that character is that I wanted him to want it as well. In some ways, it’s sometimes easier to live within the projection that everybody puts upon you than it is to resist it and fight every day against it. And when you’re alone like that, and when you don’t really have a family situation to lean on to keep you safe and sane, it can destroy you.
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