The 95th Academy saw a momentous win for the Asian American community with ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once.’ Now, Netflix is bearing the flag to represent the community and increase its visibility. To do so, it has released a 10-episode series, ‘Beef,’ starring Ali Wong, David Choe, Steven Yeun, and others.
The series unfolds between the two protagonists, Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) and Amy Lau (Ali Wong). They get into a road rage incident, but many things unfold beneath the surface between the failing contractor, and a successful entrepreneur. David Choe, a mural artist, plays Danny’s cousin, Issac. He plays an integral part in the series to represent the power politics that Danny plays. However, the actor came under fire recently for his rape remarks on his now-defunct podcast, ‘DVDASA.’
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David Choe Narrated His ‘Rapey Behavior’ On The Podcast With Asa Akira
The ‘Beef’ actor, David Choe’s, comments have resurfaced online, and people are upset with the story that he narrated on his podcast, DVDASA (Double Vag, Double Anal, Sensitive Artist), in 2014. Journalist Aurora Bogado posted the clip from the podcast on Twitter. In the video, he narrates a story about sexually assaulting a masseuse. He says, “So, I just take her hand and I put it on my (genitals). And she just holds it there.” Vice released the transcript in their report about his conversation with the adult actress, Asa Akira.
David tells Akira, “She’s not into it but she’s not stopping it either. I take the back of her head and push it down on my dick, and she doesn’t do it, and then I go ‘open your mouth’ and she does it, and then I start face fucking her.”
He continues, “With the rape stuff…I mean, I would have been in a lot of trouble right now if I put her hand on my dick and she’s like, ‘Fucking stop I’m gonna go call security.’ That would have been a much different story. But the thrill of possibly going to jail, that’s what achieved the erection quest.”
The Actor Released A Statement, Claiming That He Insinuated The Story
However, David released a statement on the podcast’s website, defending his statement and confessing that he fictionalized the whole story. In his statement, the artist wrote, “The main objective of all of my podcasts is to challenge and provoke my friends and the co-stars on the show. We fuck with each other, entertain ourselves and laugh at each other.”
He continued, “It’s a dark, tasteless, completely irreverent show where we fuck with everyone listening, but mostly ourselves. We create stories and tell tales. It’s not a news show. It’s not a representation of my reality.”
Choe said, “It’s not the place to come for reliable information about me or my life. It’s my version of reality; it’s art that sometimes offends people. I’m sorry if anyone believed that the stories were fact. They were not! In a world full of horrible people, thank god for us.”
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Twitteratis Criticized The Actor For His Comments
David Choe has allegedly threatened the journalist, Aura Bogado, who uploaded the clip. On her Twitter, she uploaded screenshots of the email, where it cites the reasons for her video being taken down. She accuses David of having asked Twitter to take down the video on “copyright grounds.”
She further writes, “He claims his *nonprofit* owns the copyright to the video of him talking about the alleged rape.” After the clip went viral, netizens reacted to this clip, and they are not yet ready to forget about the statements he made, asking his co-stars on the Netflix series to weigh in.
Shit. Beef deserves better than to be tanked by David Choe’s history of rape normalization. But what he boasted about was grotesque, and if he did it—he claims now he didn’t—it was criminal. And the actions that have been taken since then to stonewall have only made things worse.
— Jeff Yang 🫶 (@originalspin) April 17, 2023
Between David Choe and Jonathan Majors trending, I'm having yet another day where I wonder why it's so hard for so many men to just not rape women. To just not abuse women. To just not mistreat women. I truly don't understand.
— Alisha Grauso (@AlishaGrauso) April 18, 2023
Remember a couple weeks ago when massage therapists and other professionals were saying why they refuse to take male clients?
What David Choe did happens to women at work, OFTEN. This time, it just happened to be a celebrity committing the assault.
This is rape culture.
— ✨50% OFF SALE ON OF!✨ (@Hey_AshBee) April 17, 2023
I’m late to this David Choe stuff, but am I correct that he went on a podcast to brag about committing rape and then, when people got upset, said “I didn’t rape anyone. I just made up a very detailed story about raping someone for reasons” and that’s supposed to fix it somehow?
— Aubrey Hirsch (@aubreyhirsch) April 17, 2023
I wonder how Steven Yuen will respond to David Choe’s terrible past behaviours. They’re good friends and Yuen knows Choe well. Rape culture is so real that BEEF creators thought his misogyny and predatory behaviours wouldn’t be a problem.
— Helen Park 🍜 (@heyhelenpark) April 14, 2023
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