Photography by Jason Nocito; Styling by Kelly Mccabe; Text by Donnie Kwak

Aaron Yoo: Discovering Yoo

By the time you read this, Aaron Yoo will have just returned from a two-month jaunt around the world: Pakistan and the Philippines for a friend’s two-part wedding, South Korea to visit the motherland, Thailand and Malaysia for adventure, and Paris…well, yeah, Paris. See, Aaron’s lived enough of the working grunt life—his first real break came at age 27 in 2007’s Rocket Science—that he won’t let his Hollywood high life be micromanaged by an agent or publicist. Thankfully, successive hit movies (Disturbia, 21, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) give Yoo a little leverage.

Aaron will come back to the States hoping to celebrate the success of the new Friday the 13th remake—“Sex, Drugs & Jason,” he calls it—that opens on a certain predictable day in February. “This is gonna be the well-done, glossy, good version of the original series,” he says. Aaron’s part was originally written to be an Asian nerd, but after he consulted with the producers, the role was reinvented to be less of a stereotype. “You got this skinny Asian kid, but he acts sort of like John Belushi from Animal House: boozing, pot-smoking, T&A-obsessed. Now that’s actually funny,” says Aaron. After Friday the 13th, his next two projects are as Lindsay Lohan’s “douchebag boyfriend” in Labor Pains and as a pot dealer in the weed drama Kid Cannabis. And if those two strike box-office gold as well? There’s always Africa and Antarctica still to see. Home // STYLE // STYLE FEATURES // Aaron Yoo: Discovering Yoo