‘Beef’ Fans Blast Netflix for Casting David Choe After Rape Claim Resurfaces: ‘They Deserve Whatever Fallout They’re Getting’

“Execs knew about his past and still hired him so the whole thing can be torched as far as I’m concerned,” wrote one viewer

David Choe in Beef
"Beef" (Andrew Cooper/Netflix)

After a 2014 video of “Beef” actor David Choe in which he said he forced himself on a masseuse was shared to Twitter, fans of the Netflix series blasted the streamer and creator Lee Sung Jin.

Leads Steven Yuen and Ali Wong — who are friends with Choe and reached out to him to be in the series — were also slammed, with Wong setting her Twitter account to private.

“Beef” has been burning up the Netflix charts since it premiered on April 6, but now fans are swearing off the series. On Twitter, viewers have called for the show to be “tanked,” and “torched” and that it “absolutely deserves to go down.”

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