Steven Yeun at the SAG Awards 2024.Photo:Netflix
Netflix
Greta LeeandTroy Kotsurpresented the honor to the actor, 40, for his work onBeef. Upon stepping up to the stage, Yeun realized he grabbed an envelope that wasn’t meant for him.
“Oh, this is Pedro’s,” Yeun said, referencing fellowwinnerPedro Pascal.“I’m gonna keep this.”
From there, Yeun began to give thanks to hisBeefcolleagues. “I have to think first, Sonny [Lee], Ali [Wong], Jake [Schreier], thank you for going on this ride for building this thing,” he said.
“Thank you to Netflix, A24. Thank you to my lovely wife,Jo [Pak]. Thank you to my family. Thank you to my mom and my dad, who didn’t say no hard enough to have me stop doing this,” he continued. “I was reminded outside about the first job that I had that got me my SAG card, and it was being in a vat of fake caramel wriggling around in a speedo for a Milky Way commercial. And honestly, I felt just as hyped to get that card then as I am to receive this here now.”
“I’m very honored to be here in this room with all you. I’m very honored to be nominated with these incredible artists,” he continued. “I want to thank, finally, my incredible acting coach and dear friend Deb Aquila. Whenever we would work on something, I just be like, ‘No, you don’t get it.’ It’s like this specific Korean thing that I’m talking about. And God bless her. She was like, ‘No, honey, that’s what we all go through.’ And that was so important to me. So thank you, Deb. I appreciate y’all. Thank you so much.”
Steven Yeun as Danny in episode 101 of ‘Beef’.Andrew Cooper/Netflix
Andrew Cooper/Netflix
Yeun’s fellow 2024 nominees also includedFellow Travelers’Matt Bomer,Fargo’sJon Hamm,David OyelowofromLawmen: Bass ReevesandTony ShalhoubofMr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie.
InBeef, Yeun played Danny Cho, a man whose repressed anger was unleashed after he finds himself in a road rage scenario withAli Wong’s character Amy Lau. In the event’s aftermath, Danny and Ali found their lives intertwined in unexpected ways.
Matt Bomer in ‘Fellow Travelers.'.Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME
Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME
In Showtime’s limited seriesFellow Travelers, Bomer — who also executive produced the show — played charismatic politico Hawk Fuller, who became entangled in a decades-long love affair with Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey).
The show’s timeline spanned from the 1950s Joseph McCarthy communist trials to the 1980s AIDS crisis — a project Bailey previously told PEOPLE was a"no-brainer"for him to do: “I had looked for these gay stories, a sweeping gay love story, and I hadn’t really seen them. This ticked every single box, and it’s something I know I’ll be proud of for the rest of my career.”
Jon Hamm in ‘Fargo.'.Michelle Faye/FX
Michelle Faye/FX
Fargo’sfifth season revolved aroundJuno Temple’s character Dot, a Minnesota wife and mother whose past caught up with her despite her best efforts to build a new life. Hamm played Roy Tillman, an overzealous priest and sheriff who was hellbent on finding Dot.
David Oyelowo in ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’.Lauren Smith/Paramount+
Lauren Smith/Paramount+
Lawmen: Bass Reeveswas a dream more than eight years in the making for Oyelowo, who also executive-produced the series alongsideYellowstonecreator Taylor Sheridan. In playing the first Black U.S. deputy marshal west of the Mississippi River, the actor told PEOPLE ahead of production that the show aimed for a “true historical representation."
“People don’t know that one in four cowboys back then were Black and that the Lone Ranger was basically a story that was ripped from Bass Reeves’s life,” he added.
For the Paramount+ series, Oyelowo trained in horse riding and firearms to play the man who arrested more than 3,000 criminals in the 1800s: “He had a long career with so many legendary stories. That’s what’s exciting.”
Oyelowo was previously nominated for a SAG Award in 2014 for his portrayal of Louis Gaines in the biopicThe Butler.
Tony Shalhoub in ‘Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie.'.Peter Stranks/PEACOCK
Peter Stranks/PEACOCK
In Peacock’sMr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie,Shalhoub stepped back into the iconic role of Adrian Monk, the germophobic detective he played in the USA Network seriesMonkfor eight seasons.
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