{"id":2862,"date":"2016-10-03T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/03\/its-my-story-actor-paul-sun-hyung-lee-on-being-seen\/"},"modified":"2016-10-03T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:33:00","slug":"its-my-story-actor-paul-sun-hyung-lee-on-being-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/03\/its-my-story-actor-paul-sun-hyung-lee-on-being-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s my story”: actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee on being seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBC Q<\/em><\/p>\n

After having his play, Kim’s Convenience<\/a><\/em> rejected by every major theatre company in\u00a0Toronto, writer Ins Choi <\/strong>remembers thinking “I just want to see it on stage once.”<\/p>\n

Five years later, after enjoying\u00a0hit run with\u00a0Toronto’s Fringe Festival and\u00a0the\u00a0Soulpepper Theatre, Choi re-wrote the play into a TV show for the CBC\u00a0premiering on October 11th.<\/p>\n

The sitcom taps into the immigrant experience\u00a0by\u00a0following a Korean family, the Kims, who run a convenience store in Toronto.<\/p>\n

“It’s my story. It’s my family’s story,” says the show’s star, comedian Paul Sun-Hyung Lee\u00a0<\/strong>who\u00a0plays Appa, the family patriarch.<\/p>\n

For Lee, in many ways, the play and now the TV show were\u00a0like a coming home. Growing up as a Korean-Canadian he would reject\u00a0the Korean part of him in favour of assimilation. On the flip-side,\u00a0“be more Asian” was the\u00a0note he got most often as a young actor.<\/p>\n

But with Appa, Lee\u00a0doesn’t feel like he’s playing a stereotype, a first for him as an actor of colour.<\/p>\n

In fact, something clicked after he read Kim’s Convenience for the first time.<\/p>\n

“You don’t realize the affect it really has on you until you see something that truly represents you,” he tells guest host Candy\u00a0Palmater\u00a0in studio today.<\/p>\n

WEB EXTRA |<\/strong> Meet the main characters of Kim’s Convenience in the videos below. The show premieres on the CBC on October 11th.<\/p>\n

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