Kim's Convenience

I'm like, what's my next idea? What's my next thing? And my co-creator and I, Scott Townend and I, my buddy, he was one of my best friends.

We were coming up with ideas and we just started putting together ideas of a TV show we wanted to see.

And we wanted to see something that was about... a family in this day and age i wanted to see a diverse family kim's convenience was about the immigrant experience and then run the burbs is about the experience of the children of those immigrants i want to see them thrive i also wanted to showcase families of color thriving and that often happens in the suburbs and i saw that growing up in calgary in calgary the suburbs is where a lot of immigrant families and newcomers are thriving it is a chance for them to have a backyard It is a chance for them to have a barbecue with hamburgers and hot dogs.

And so I really brought that energy to Run the Burbs.

What was it like having it be your own creative baby? There had to be some really challenging parts about it.

Could you speak a little bit about that?

Making your own TV show is a miracle.

It's an absolute challenge.

For me, my journey has been being part of a family business since I was young.

I grew up in Kim's Convenience.

If you know of the show, that was like literally 10 years of my childhood.

So my parents had a convenience store.

I'm your host, Bill Brioux.

More than a dozen years ago, I first met Paul Sun Yung Lee on the set of the CBC comedy series, Kim's Convenience.

That was a warm and memorable conversation.

The series was brand new and Paul, after a career mainly on the stage, was thrilled to finally land a leading role on a hit network sitcom.

And it's just like, oh, right.

So months of investment in terms of growing it out and grooming it gone in seconds.

But it's OK because it was a nice reset.

Right.

You've been on a few episodes now.

What have been some of the scenes that you think were just the best to film? Were there any scenes that maybe you initially were like, oh, they want me to do that? And what just made you laugh on set? What was something that just cracked you up being there with the Strange New Worlds crew? Also, got any good memories from Kim's Convenience? Absolutely love that show and your little arc there.

All right.

PlatyM3 signing off.

And yeah, I think all of my feelings were alive in that.

How

about Kim's convenience?

Kim's, wow, that was a while ago.

Sometimes, I think in the case of Simu Liu, who's really in just one really big film, the film Shang-Chi, Marvel film, in which Tony Leung actually plays his father, that that's the film where he's allowed to kind of have the most dramatic range, even though it's a comic book movie.

And then he was in a popular Canadian television series called Kim's Convenience, playing kind of like sort of the black sheep of a family, kind of like friendly jock, who's slightly estranged from his father, but is otherwise a good Even though he's playing Korean-Canadian rather than Chinese-Canadian.

So I think there's a sense that he has dramatic abilities that haven't really been tapped because he's been kind of typecast in a certain type of role.

And in fact, it's very interesting that you would make the comparison to Pedro Pascal because this is kind of what Pedro Pascal was 10 years ago.

Um,

he was the same set as Kim's convenience.

100% the same.

I

quite like Kim's Convenience.

My one complaint about Kim's Convenience is that apparently Toronto only has one season and it's June.

Because

every time they're just hanging in the, and it's like very sunny and I'm like, that's, no, no, Toronto is cold most of the time, just like