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'Beef' Stars Respond to David Choe Rape Controversy: 'We've Seen Him Put in the Work'

Denver Sean

After much controversy, the stars of Netflix’s hit show ‘Beef’ have responded to resurfaced criticism against cast member David Choe.

In recent days, a 2014 podcast interview resurfaced where he had joked about being the “successful rapist” of a Black woman during a massage.

via Variety:

On Friday, “Beef” creator Lee Sung Jin and executive producers and stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong released a statement to Variety, calling Choe’s story “undeniably hurtful and extremely disturbing” but that he’s “put in the work to get the mental health support he needed.”

“The story David Choe fabricated nine years ago is undeniably hurtful and extremely disturbing. We do not condone this story in any way, and we understand why this has been so upsetting and triggering. We’re aware David has apologized in the past for making up this horrific story, and we’ve seen him put in the work to get the mental health support he needed over the last decade to better himself and learn from his mistakes,” they said.

In resurfaced clips of the 2014 “DVDASA” podcast episode, Choe told co-host Asa Akira a sexually explicit story about a massage he received from a massage therapist he calls Rose. “I’m getting turned on just telling this story,” he said in the footage. “I just take her hand and I put it on my dick. She just holds it there.”

Choe detailed numerous sexual acts and ended the story by saying, “The thrill of possibly going to jail, that’s what achieved the erection quest.” Akira replied, “Ew, you’re basically telling us that you’re a rapist now, and that the only way to get your dick really hard is rape.” Choe responded, “Yeah,” then answered other guests’ questions about Rose’s appearance. “What the fuck is wrong with you guys?” Akira asked. “Who cares what she looks like? Dave is telling us he’s a rapist.” He joked in response, “A successful rapist.”

Choe originally responded to the backlash in 2014, denying he was a rapist in a statement and saying that the podcast was “a complete extension of his art” as a storyteller.

“I never thought I’d wake up one late afternoon and hear myself called a rapist. It sucks. Especially because I am not one. I am not a rapist. I hate rapists, I think rapists should be raped and murdered,” he said at the time. “I am an artist and a storyteller and I view my show ‘DVDASA’ as a complete extension of my art. If I am guilty of anything, it’s bad storytelling in the style of douche. Just like many of my paintings are often misinterpreted, the same goes with my show. 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. 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. 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.”

He doubled down on the apology and posted a statement in 2017, writing “I have zero history of sexual assault. I am deeply sorry for any hurt I’ve brought to anyone through my past words.” He also revealed he had went through three years of recovery and rehabilitation.

Clips of the “DVDASA” podcast resurfaced on Twitter last week, but some of them were removed with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices that were filed seemingly by Choe himself under the David Young Choe Foundation. The DMCA notices called the Twitter videos “copyright infringing media” and asked for their “immediate” removal.

“Beef” released on Netflix on April 6, after which it rose to No. 2 on Netflix’s Top 10 list of English-language shows. In its second week of release, it received over 70 million hours viewed. Opposite Yeun and Wong, Choe plays Isaac, the older, frequently-incarcerated cousin of Yeun’s character Danny. Choe, who is a painter and artist, supplied the artwork for nine episodes’ title cards.

This statement smell like PR cover — and we’re not buying it.

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Not-Black POC perpetuate and benefit from anti-Blackness,

Are NOT the natural allies of Black people and CANNOT be trusted to do the right thing regarding Black people without prompting FROM Black people.

Only rapists think it's OK to "joke" about violating the bodily autonomy of someone else, and David Choe went so far as to describe this Black woman's looks IN DETAIL,

So Ali Wong and Steven Yeun are sticking beside David Choe, covering for a rapist,

Cause ANYTHING for Asian media representation.

They coulda kept this li'l statement, cause it just added insult to injury.

As for the show, I’m not watching.

Asians you must do better and condemn the antiblackness in your community

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🎞️Beef (2023) 🎥Jake Schreier / Hikari / Lee Sung Jin 📷Larkin Seiple

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David Choe Net Worth, Wife, Movies and TV Shows

David Choe is an American painter, graffiti artist, graphic novelist, and muralist who has made a name for himself in the art world.

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Source: David Cho

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Beef

Beef (Serie 2023) #StevenYeun #AliWong #JosephLee #YoungMazino #DavidChoe #PattiYasutake Mehr auf:

SerieJahr: 2023 (April) Genre: Comedy / Drama Hauptrollen: Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Joseph Lee, Young Mazino, David Choe, Patti Yasutake, Ashley Park, Mia Serafino, Bernard White, Maria Bello, Remy Holt … Serienbeschreibung: Es beginnt mit einem eigentlich harmlosem Vorfall: Auf einem Parkplatz fährt Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) beim Ausparken Amy Lau (Ali Wong) beinahe ins Auto. Einen Stinkefinger…

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Watch "How David Choe Cured His Depression" on YouTube

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Watch "How David Choe Cured His Depression" on YouTube

THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS SAY. HUMANITY HAS TO GO BACK TO IT'S ROOTS IN NATURE TO BE HAPPY

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Words of wisdom from David Choe

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This is FQUCKED up

Netflix’s ‘Beef’ Star David Choe Details Alleged Rape Of Black Woman In 2014 Video

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An old video of Netflix Beef star David Choe circulated, where he seemingly admitted to raping a Black woman, sparked outrage on Black Twitter.

The 46-year-old Korean-American actor and visual media artist trended on April 13 amid a repost of the shocking video Latina journalist Aura Bogado posted on Twitter.  

“According to his own telling, the woman David Choe assaulted is Black. He describes himself as a ‘successful rapist,'” Bogado captioned the post.

The rape dialogue between Choe and other Asian folks occurred on his obsolete 2014 podcast,DVDASA. 

The footage begins with the Beef star, who portrays Isaac, saying, “But the thrill of possibly going to jail, that’s what achieved the erection quest.”

His horrified cohost and porn star, Asa Akira, responded, “Ew, you’re basically telling us that you’re a rapist now. And the only way to get your dick really hard– is rape.”

Choe casually answered, “Yeah.”

An off-camera clown asked, “What did she look like?”

“Beautiful,” the actor rebutted before describing his alleged victim. 

“Half-Black, half-white…”

“Like Leona Lewis,” Akira asked. Ironically, she said her own share of rape talk about a teenage boy in the same podcast episode.

Source: Michael Buckner / Getty

The two men on the side asked about the alleged victim’s age and breast size. Choe didn’t hesitate to tell the panel the victim had “huge tiddies.”

In the disgusting video, the Japanese porn star was visibly uncomfortable regarding the flippant rape dialogue.

“What the fuck is wrong with you guys? Dave’s basically telling us he’s a rapist.”

“A successful rapist,” he clapped back as the video concluded. 

Black Twitter lit his ass up.

Writer Nylah Burton wrote, “David Choe’s rape confession is shocking to me. Like the culture we live in is horrific, but to think you can just graphically detail how you raped someone and still wind up on starring in this TV show??? Jail for everyone involved.”

Some Twitter users even called for Netflix to cancelBeef in light of Choe’s alleged rape resurfacing.

One person said it plainly, implying that Netflix and the folks who worked with him on the series were complicit, aware of his egregious past, and didn’t give a damn. 

In 2014, Buzzfeed recounted the gross dialogue with Choe and cohorts about the alleged rape. The sordid details were spelled out and reportedly involved the actor and a masseuse named “Rose.” The 46-year-old California native vividly described a scenario where he forcibly made the Black woman perform oral sex on him. Before the most deplorable part of the story, Choe spelled out how uncomfortable the masseuse was as he continuously invaded her space while acting inappropriately. 

As outrage spread around the interweb, he shot off a half-assed apology denying that the rape actually happened and that he had simply told a rapey story. The Netflix star also divulged that the story was a trash-ass “extension of his art.”

Yeah, ok.

“I never thought I’d wake up one late afternoon and hear myself called a rapist. It sucks. Especially because I am not one. I am not a rapist. I hate rapists; I think rapists should be raped and murdered,” he wrote.

“I am an artist and a storyteller, and I view my show DVDASA as a complete extension of my art. If I am guilty of anything, it’s bad storytelling in the style of douche. Just like many of my paintings are often misinterpreted, the same goes with my show. The main objective of all of my podcasts is to challenge and provoke my friends and the co-stars on the show.”

Saying the story was meant to “entertain,” Choe continued. “We fuck with each other, entertain ourselves and laugh at each other. 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.” 

In 2013, a study determined that one in four Asian men had perpetrated physical or sexual violence against women. There’s even a growing movement among Asian men called “MRAsians.”

The API Institute posted a study as well detailing that “23% experienced some form of contact sexual violence, 10% experienced completed or attempted rape, and 21% had non-contact unwanted sexual experiences during their lifetime.”

These statistics and anecdotal evidence do not imply that Choe would be a rapist because he’s Asian. However, his “story” doesn’t help his argument. And while “Rose” has never come forward, only one Black woman out of every 16 rapes reports the crime to the police. 

Rape culture is alive and well, and a person perpetuating it via an alleged account or through a “story” should be fucking canceled. 

PERIOD.

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Impermanent Art’s 2020 in review: we revisited a few favorite vintage Los Angeles murals this year. 

1. Etam Cru in the Flower District. Painted in 2015.

2. Pixel Pancho in Venice. Painted in 2013. 

3. D*Face in Culver City. Painted in 2014. 

4. Fintan Magee in Culver City. Painted in 2014. 

5. Tristan Eaton and Hauser in Santa Monica. Painted in 2014. 

6. Aryz and David Choe in the Arts District. Painted in 2013. 

7. Nychos in the Arts District. Painted in 2015. 

8. Miss Van in Beverly Grove. Painted in 2015. 

9. Cryptik in Venice. Painted in 2013. 

10. El Mac and Kofie in Beverly Grove. Painted in 2015. 

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Untitled, 2004, by David Choe, seen at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. #mixedmedia #contemporaryart #davidchoe #perezartmuseum #miami (at Pérez Art Museum Miami) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSfZ-t6lhED/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I’m excited to hear and see David Choe returning and being back in the limelight with the news of his latest project “The Choe Show”. DVDASA changed my life when I was a much younger person. David and his crew of friends and guests were one of my greatest influences that really opened my eyes as a youth about the world with a new and unseen perspective of life at a time when I unknowingly needed it most. Choe is a creative that I view highly for creating the magnum opus of podcasting, DVDASA, from my own personal perception. It was edgy, emotional, dark, humorous, informal- it was a podcast that had everything thanks to the efforts of everyone in that specific time and place of their lives. It created something beautiful that I was glad to be a part of in a modern internet-age that I doubt can be replicated today. I am glad to see that Choe is taking a risk and exposing himself to the public eye as an emotional and sensitive artist once again alongside the talents of Hiro Murai and more. There is so much talent in this lineup including the lovely Asa Akira, Denzel Curry, and more. As a fan, I hope Choe is not concerned about the troubles that have haunted him in prior years and those that he has revealed. I would love to see Choe in a good place in his life and maybe being able to find something that works for him. Over the span of DVDASA’s ending, I was just a kid; by the time that the Choe Show has been released- I’ve finally graduated college and (maybe) have become an ‘adult’. I might not have as great-of stories as David did in his past, but I’m glad to say that I’ve lived my own life and can be proud to say I’ve experienced things in my personal life and I thank DVDASA for providing me a life not my own. This project is something that I never thought would ever happen. I have no personal expectations nor wants from this new show of his because at the end of the day, I really truly love Choe and everybody that brought such great memories to myself and many of the listeners who have since grown-up. I’m sending much love and support to The Choe Show and can’t wait to see what’s in store for us. #davidchoe #choeshow #dvdasa https://www.instagram.com/p/CQNZPlSn4L6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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