Aaron Yoo plays Thom, the gay leader of Nick’s punk rock band The Jerk Offs in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. (Actually, the whole band is gay except for Nick.) Yoo’s character is the less flamboyant, more empathetic member of the group. Thom (Aaron Yoo) and Dev (Rafi Gavron) think they can spot the right girl for Nick in a second.

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Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a comedy about two people thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. Nick (Michael Cera) frequents New York’s indie rock scene nursing a broken heart and a vague ability to play the bass. Norah (Kat Dennings) is questioning pretty much all of her assumptions about the world. Though they have nothing in common except for their taste in music, their chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band’s secret show and ends up becoming the first date in a romance that could change both their lives.

In real life, Aaron plays the cello and saxophone. He grew up playing music, but had never attempted the guitar before. “I took some lessons,” he says. “I was practicing so much that first week that I was ripping the skin off of my fingers, because I didn’t really know how to strum properly. I spent hours just running through these riffs, then the challenge was translating that into an actual performance in a real club.

John Cho also has a brief cameo as a Hype Man.

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist trailer

Aaron Yoo interview about the Beatle speech and the film being about destiny

Aaron Yoo interview

More about Aaron Yoo

2007 was quite the year for Aaron Yoo and 2008 and 2009 are promising to be even better. In April of 2007 Aaron starred opposite Shia LaBeouf in the sleeper hit Disturbia. In May of the same year he played the main character in the sweet World War II drama American Pastime and after receiving tons of accolades at the Sundance Film Festival, Rocket Science hit theatres across America in August 2007. In March 2008 Aaron Yoo had a lead role opposite Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey in 21. Yoo next co-starred in the Sundance hit, The Wackness, which opened in July of 2008. In early 2009, he will star in Friday the 13th for producer Michael Bay. He is currently shooting Labor Pains opposite Lindsay Lohan, playing her boyfriend and The Good Guy opposite Scott Porter. In September he begins work as the lead bad guy in Kid Cannabis for director/writer John Stockwell and is awaiting a release date for the sci-fi drama Game in which he stars opposite Gerard Butler and Michael C. Hall.

Yoo’s career began Off-Broadway where he starred in U.S. and world premiere productions including “Where Do We Live” at the Vineyard Theatre, “wAve” and “Savage Acts” for the Ma-Yi Theatre Company, “Cellophane” at the Flea Theatre, and the National Asian-American Theatre Co.’s “Fuenteovejuna”. Other NYC credits include “The Gifted Program” at the LAByrinth and “Karaoke Stories” for the Imua! Theatre Company. Yoo then turned his talents to the small screen, with guest-appearances on shows such as “Law & Order: SVU,” “Love Monkey” and “Ed.” He most recent TV appearance was a recurring role opposite Penn Badgely on The WB’s “The Bedford Diaries,” which was created and executive produced by Tom Fontana.

Born in Dallas and raised in East Brunswick, NJ, Yoo earned a BA in Theatre from the University of Pennsylvania. In what little downtime he has these days, he practices his DJ skills, plays the cello and pole vaults. He is also a soccer fiend and holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.