Charles Melton Invites Mother Soo Kyung as Dating Partner to Golden Globe Awards

If Charles Melton of May DuVernes had set out to make us swoon, he would have done so long ago. But his decision to bring his mother, Soo Kyung, as his date to tonight's Golden Globe Awards has cemented his place in our hearts.

Melton, who is wearing Armani tonight, is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Joe Yoo, and the 32-year-old has already won a Gotham Award and a New York Critics Circle Award for his performance alongside Hollywood heavyweights like Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman He has already won a Gotham Award and a New York Critics Circle Award for his performance. Moore plays Gracie, Joe's wife. They are a suburban couple with two children and, well, what can I say: ...... complicated past: when they met, Gracie was a 36-year-old housewife and Joe was in the seventh grade.

Melton put on more than 35 pounds for the role of Joe, and on December 5, director Todd Haynes said that his good looks were actually a negative when casting him for the role. "We were very grateful that Charles Melton came into our consciousness," Haynes told Vulture, "and his looks were almost a deterrent. I felt that Joe would be good-looking, but Charles had handsome, pin-up qualities, and he wasn't necessarily what I envisioned him to be."

Melton, perhaps best known before December 5 for his role as Reggie Mantle in "Riverdale," not only brings his own style to the film, but also plays the role of Elizabeth, played by Portman, who shadows the You family as they prepare to play Gracie in the next film, a repressed His star has skyrocketed with his portrayal of the complex Joe, who is faced with repressed trauma. The film, which was released just last month, has brought Melton newfound fame, and he seems to be honoring where (and from whom) he came from in the form of a date to tonight's awards.

Melton, who has brought his mother as a date to multiple awards ceremonies over the years, calls Sukhyong his biggest cheerleader and "hero."

In a 2019 Good Morning America interview, he first called L.A. "a place to be" to pursue an acting career. He recalls his mother's support when he moved to He said that at the time, he and his grandmother packed "60 cans of tuna, 60 cans of chicken noodle soup" and almonds before the cross-country drive.

"My mother said, 'It's going to be good. ' 'It's going to be a tough couple of months. You don't have to work, you don't have to make money, but you have this. This is the best she can do. I wouldn't trade my relationship with my mother for anything. That's my queen."

Melton may be the latest actor to bring his mother as a date to an awards ceremony, but he's certainly not the first. Ryan Gosling, Matthew McConaughey, Timothy Shalamat, Michael B. Jordan, and Leonardo DiCaprio have done the same (Bradley Cooper also has his mother on his arm for tonight's awards).