A clip of ‘BEEF’ star David Choe has resurfaced bragging about raping a woman and being a successful rapist on podcast.
David Choe, who stars in Netflix and A24’s viral show Beef, is facing online backlash after Twitter users resurfaced a podcast from 2014 in which he seems to explicitly describe sexually assaulting a massage therapist.
Choe, who plays Isaac on the Netflix show and is also known for his graffiti artistry, said during the podcast episode, viewed by NBC News, “So I go back to the chill method of: You never ask first, you just do it, get in trouble and then pay the price later.”
Neither Choe nor Netflix responded to NBC News’ request for comment. But following the controversial podcast in 2014, the artist released a statement, denying any truth to the story, saying the podcast is “a complete extension of my art.”
But many have called out the choice to cast graffiti artist Choe, who called himself a “successful rapist” on the podcast he cohosted with Asa Akira, DVDASA, in 2014.
Investigative journalist Aura Bogado brought the clip to light again after she shared writer Melissa Stetten’s clip of the now-deleted interview on Thursday. Bogado tweeted the video and said: “According to his own telling, the woman David Choe assaulted is Black. He describes himself as ‘a successful rapist.’”
Choe did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News’ request for comment. He described the mission of the podcast at the time as, “We create stories and tell tales … It’s my version of reality, it’s art that sometimes offends people. I’m sorry if anyone believed that the stories were fact. They were not!”
Many social media users are questioning his casting and pointing to specific quotes in the past clips, such as Choe saying that he is “a successful rapist.”
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