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Byron Mann on Breaking Into Korean Cinema With ‘Big Deal’ and Bridging East-West Storytelling: ‘The World Is Bigger Than Just America’
Byron Mann discusses his Korean film debut 'Big Deal,' rewriting English dialogue, and cost-efficient Asian productions in streaming era.
His character in “Big Deal” is an investment banker from New York and Hong Kong in a story loosely based on real events involving one of Korea’s biggest soju companies in 2003. The process involved understanding the Korean team’s intentions for each scene and line, then translating those concepts into natural English vernacular specific to how an investment banker would speak. Western directors, Mann suggests, tend to expect actors to arrive fully prepared with homework completed for the entire project, while some Asian productions allow for more flexibility and star input during filming.
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