‘Beef’ Breakout Young Mazino Says Emmy Nomination a Good Sign for Hollywood’s AAPI Efforts

TheWrap magazine: “Hopefully this empowers [this community] to realize that everyone has just as much of a right to be present in these kinds of awards,” the first-time nominee says

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Young Mazino in a BTS shot of "Beef" (Netflix)

This story about Young Mazino first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama and Limited Series issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. All actor interviews in that issue were conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike began.

Young Mazino — who portrays the crypto-hip, empathetic Paul on Netflix/A24’s “Beef” — celebrated his first Emmy nomination like any normal person would. He quietly rejoiced, then went to see “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning: Part One.”

But the day was obviously a good one even before he got to spend time in a dark theater watching Tom Cruise, particularly since “Beef” became the first fully AAPI-created limited or anthology series to be nominated for the top prize in that category.

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