‘Minari’ Star Yuh-Jung Youn Calls Brits ‘Snobbish’ in Tongue-in-Cheek BAFTA Speech

Yuh-jung Youn can see through Brad Pitt’s tricks.

as a flirtatious overture, it wasn’t. In an interview post-Oscars, the Korean actress Youn revealed what she told Pitt once she got offstage.

Oscars press room when a journalist asked what Brad Pitt smelled like. The 73-year-old South Korean actor, who won Best Supporting Actress for Minari, was given the trophy by Pitt.

Chloé Zhao’s history-making Oscars sweep, winning best director and best picture, is being met with a muted response in her country of birth, and even censorship.

The 2021 Oscars didn’t look like a typical awards show. It surely didn’t flow like a typical awards show.

Staying honest! Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn had a perfect response when asked what Brad Pitt, who presented her with her Oscar, smelled like during the 2021 Academy Awards on Sunday, April 25.

Home Alone.The eight-year-old Minari star, who won the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer for the film last month, spoke to NME about his wishes for future projects.“I’d like to do a movie like Home Alone,” he said, before imparting some young wisdom about acting.

Minari star Yuh-Jung Youn made history at the Oscars by becoming the first Korean to win an acting Academy Award and delivered another endearing acceptance speech. The 73-year-old actress from South Korea has a career in film and television that spans over five decades but only recently rose to prominence in the US thanks to her role in Minari.

Minari, for which she has also won a BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award. "Mr Brad Pitt, finally," Youn joked as she received her award on stage to laughter from the audience.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSouth Korean media were quick to celebrate the Oscar win, as best supporting actress in “Minari,” for veteran Yuh-jung Youn. It was a first ever acting win for a Korean actor.

Yuh-JungYoun has made history at the 2021 Oscars. The Minari star won best supporting actress at the annual awards ceremony on Sunday night and, in doing so, became the first Korean actor or actress to win an Oscar in the show's 93-year history.

Let’s face it — Brad Pitt is one of the best looking men on the planet and he is, likely, well used to having women fawn over him wherever he goes.

was backstage celebrating her history-making Oscars win for Best Supporting Actress, which Pitt presented to her.According to a tweet from journalist Kevin Polowy, Youn was asked by a reporter what the “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood” star smelled like during her backstage interview with the press. She responded, “I didn’t smell him.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterRaise a glass of Mountain Dew to Yuh-Jung Youn.The celebrated Korean actress won an Oscar on Sunday night for her supporting role in “Minari,” Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical drama about a family that relocates to rural Arkansas in the 1980s to start a farm.

Veteran actress Yuh-Jung Youn made history when she became the first South Korean actress ever to receive an Oscar nomination in the supporting actress category, and again made history tonight as the first Korean ever to win an acting Oscar for her portrayal as the feisty grandma in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari.

on Sunday, making her the first Korean and second female Asian acting winner in the history of the Academy Awards.“Lee Isaac Chung, without him I wouldn’t be here tonight.

Oscar 2021 history.Brad Pitt presented the best supporting actress award to the scene-stealing “Minari” star — after referencing her love of Brit actress Maggie Smith and American auteur filmmaker Robert Altman. “Nice to meet you Mr.

Youn Yuh-Jung is joined by her on-screen daughter on the 2021 Academy Awards red carpet!

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen “Minari’s” Steven Yeun first saw Lee Issac Chung’s script for the film, the words deeply resonated with him. “It spoke very confidently and it didn’t need anything outside of it to justify the story,” he tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast.

In Minari, Soon-ja (Yuh-Jung Youn) moves in with her daughter's family in Arkansas, where her grandson complains that she's not like other grandmas. "They bake cookies! They don't swear! They don't wear men's underwear!" David nags at Soon-ja, who in his view is coarse instead of cuddly, preferring to watch pro wrestling and chug Mountain Dew over softer, more stereotypical pursuits.