Steven Yeun photographed by Bobby Doherty for Vulture
â Huh. I could see how someone could get there, but even to me right now, thinking about it, itâs a stretch. I never, ever pinged on that. Itâs interesting to think about it that way. [Laughs] I donât think there was anymore violence inflicted on him because he was Asian. I think they would have done the same thing. Maybe itâs something to be said that youâve never seen an Asian character die like that onscreen before â because we donât have Asian people onscreen to die! Even when we do die, we die silently. People ask sometimes if Iâm sad that Iâm off the show, but man, I think the cruelest thing is that if Glenn had continued on, knowing how things usually shake out, I could totally foresee a situation where he just slowly, quietly disappears into the background and is kind of remembered but not really. But in this way, it was like holding up a battered skull to the world to be like, âDonât forget, this Asian person existed in this medium and now heâs fucking dead.â Like, he is fucking dead. Thatâs super cool! Iâm cool with that.â - Steven about âIf Glenn had been white, he never would have had violence inflicted upon him in such a wayâ
