The goal with Danny's style was to make sure he looked the opposite of current, Huang says: "He's the type of man that stopped buying clothes when he was, like, 25." Consisting of work shirts, fleeces, and layered long-sleeves, most of his wardrobe was thrifted from Goodwill, reflecting the way the character often feels like he's stuck in the past.
"We were looking from 1998 to the early 2000s, because my thought was he kind of stopped evolving after that," Huang explains. While Danny certainly doesn't pay attention to fashion trends, he isn't careless about how he presents himself. We see him dressing up in a cornflower blue button-down from JCPenney for church and more professional, clean shirts when he's on the job as a contractor.
Danny's look in particular was inspired by the men Huang saw growing up, including her stepbrothers and father. "I watched the Asian American men around me trying to navigate their space in America and how American they had to be to be accepted . . . Through Steven [Yeun]'s character, I hope that they feel seen," she says.
