Steven Yeun and Ali Wong ‘Broke Out in Hives’ From Stress After Shooting Netflix Series ‘Beef’ - Variety

“ Beef ” stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong as two people involved in a road rage incident that spirals out of control and begins to consume their every waking moment.

And despite that Yeun and Wong have no actual beef with each other, that anger began to consume them outside of the show, too — except in real life, it came in the form of hives.

During a Q&A following the world premiere of “Beef” at South by Southwest, the actors were asked how they managed to decompress after performing such explosive anger on set.

Onstage, he revealed that “Beef” was inspired by a bout of road rage that he actually experienced himself.

And for some reason, on that day, I was like, ‘I’m gonna follow you.’ It didn’t end like it did in the show — that’s why I’m here, able to talk to you today — but it definitely made me think about how we live in such subjective realities where we project onto people we don’t know.”

Jin was a writer on “Tuca and Bertie,” in which Wong and Yeun voiced lead characters.