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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Creator Maggie Kang on the Global Hit No One Saw Coming

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Creator Maggie Kang on the Global Hit No One Saw Coming

The Mishal Husain Show vor 8 Monaten

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“KPop Demon Hunters” is the brainchild of Korean-Canadian
animator Maggie Kang. It’s Netflix’s biggest-ever film and
follows Rumi, Mira and Zoey, members of the girl band Huntrix, as
they battle to save the world from dark forces.

As you’ll hear, Kang grew up loving Korean pop music long before
it was globally cool and forged a Hollywood career on films
including “The Lego Ninjago Movie” and “Kung Fu Panda 3.” In this
conversation with Mishal Husain, Kang explains how she had always
hoped a story about Korea would one day come her way. But it
never did, so she came up with her own.

Kang is in the middle of a life-changing moment. Her movie has
already scored wins at the Golden Globes and the Grammys, and now
all eyes are on the Oscars. The extraordinary thing is that no
one expected “KPop Demon Hunters” to be such a smash hit. Husain
asks Kang what it’s been like adjusting to all the attention, and
of course whether there’s a sequel in the works.

03:06 - “A global phenomenon”

04:17 - The screaming fans

05:01 - The movie theater screenings

06:49 - Pitching “KPop Demon Hunters”

09:27 - Living between two cultures

12:04 - Growing up as an “outsider”

16:34 - Kang’s first animation book

17:16 - “I liked to draw”

18:21 - Recording the voiceover, over and over

20:11 - The story of “Golden”

21:39 - Rumi, Mira and Zoey in “Golden”

23:00 - Waiting for “the tingles”

25:25 - “We kinda worried it was a little cheesy”

27:27 - Helping the world find Korean culture

29:30 - Choosing the title for a “kooky” movie

34:20 - A message from Kang to the fans

34:48 - “There’s a sequel, surely?”

35:14 - Live action “KPop Demon Hunters”?

37:01 - “I’m still very grounded”

37:22 - Diving back into the sequel?

38:00 - “Wow! You are going to the Oscars!”

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