SAG-AFTRA: More acting accolades for Steven Yeun and Ali Wong

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Ali Wong and Steven Yeun won SAG-AFTRA awards for their work on the series 'Beef.'

Who better to judge an actor's performance than other actors? Steven Yeun and Ali Wong won Best Actor and Best Actress in a Screen Actors Guild'sTelevision Movie or Limited Series  for their work as the lead actors in Beef.

"I want to thank my 83-year-old mother, who's here tonight in her pearls and her Tevas because she doesn't give a f---," Wong said as she accepted her award.

Speaking directly to her mother, Wong said: "I know it was really hard when I told you I wanted to do stand-up comedy. I hope you feel like it's all worked out."

TheSAG-AFTRA awards Feb. 24 makes it a clean sweep for Wong and Yeun. The dramedy series created by Lee Sung-jin already won the actors awards from the Golden Globe, Critics Chioce and Emmys.

        FYI: For the complete list of SAG-AFTRA award winners, click here.

The seris, which is streaming on the Netflix channel, is noteworthy because it presents a different side of Asian Americans that  strays from the model minority stereotype usually depicted in maistream media. A road rage incident spirals into a one-upmanship series of revenge acts between the two mentally and emotionally flawed characters portrayed by Yeun and Wong.

The SAG-AFTRA awards honor the best film and TV performances of the year at the 2024 SAG Awards, with the motion picture Oppenheimer and TV series The Bear led in their respctive categories. It was streamed live on Netflix.

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