Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Los Angeles.
Here?
Yeah.
Wow.
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What area?
I was born and raised in a kind of West LA, kind
of a rougher kind of area.
Wow.
I was a tough kid, got into a lot of fights.
Wow.
Yeah, I can see that.
I think there's a photo of me.
Yeah.
No, you were definitely a tough kid.
Yeah.
Really tough kid.
Yeah.
This is actually of me in high school.
But just, like, yeah.
You know, I was--
growing up in LA, I was into things the other kids--
I was really into hip hop.
I was like--
I was in a break-dancing crew for a while.
I heard that.
You were a break dancer.
Well, this is when I was in, like, elementary school.
But that's still pretty cool.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
And your parents must have been thrilled
when you went into acting.
Really thrilled.
Oh yeah.
No.
They were--
What did they want you to do?
What does your dad do?
My dad-- he actually had a small business.
He had a one-hour photo store for a long time.
And those don't exist anymore.
He was like the last one.
Yeah.
So he just would sit there by himself.
No one is dropping film off anymore.
Yeah, exactly.
Did your mom work?
She actually worked at UCLA, where I ended up going.
Where you went?
Yeah.
UCLA!
Bruins.
But they have to be proud now.
The show is very funny.
Yeah, yeah.
They're super proud.
I mean, you know, for the longest,
they were against me being an actor.
And then, I think, like the moment
they saw me in the Korean newspaper,
they were like, he's made it.
Yeah.
And that was for The Interview, when I did The Interview.
Like, playing Kim Jong Un, almost starting World War III.
Right, right.
They see me in the newspaper, they're like,
yes, he's made it.
Yeah.
Wait, what did they think about all that controversy
that you played him?
They loved it.
Oh, really?
Well, they weren't, like, scared for me
because I'd see them every day or regularly.
And they were proud.
Because I guess I'd been doing this for so long.
And they were like, oh, he's never going to make it.
He's going to fail.
And then I started, you know, working and the movie came out.
They knew I was safe.
Yeah.
And now the show.
Now the show.
Well, tell people what the show is about.
The show is about the Huang family,
and we move from Washington DC to Orlando in the mid '90s.
And it's basically about our, kind of,
readjusting to this new world, this predominantly white
community that we're living in.
And just kind of this fish out of water story.
Yeah.
It's very funny.
The lines are funny, and I think it's great.
I think it's a great show.
And I think it's great that it's a family that needs to be
represented on television.
It's the first, like, Asian-American--
Yeah, thank you.
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We got your bumper stickers to make
sure your parents know that they're proud and you're proud.
Oh my God.
This is great.
So you can just put that on your car.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
This is incredible.
You're welcome.
That'll increase the value of whatever car you drive.