Tbh this just takes me back to how Jin was one of the best chars on LOST and how Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim had to fight like hell for it
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Because Plan A was to bring in Daniel Dae Kim to be the asshole husband who gets killed off after half a season
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DDK has had a great career but honestly someone in the 0.01% of good-looking and charismatic as he is deserves a much better one
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They backed him into a corner on LOST where he had to play a character who only spoke Korean bc of the aforementioned Plan A to kill him off
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But doing a role that's almost entirely in a language you don't speak fluently or at all is one of those Asian actor things
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I've had to pretend to speak Japanese for local theater before, I speak less than zero Japanese in real life
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(Because I'm not Japanese and the Chinese and Japanese languages are not at all related despite sharing a written script)
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I'm one of those dub-over-sub anime viewers, I know, I'm terrible
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Then there's pretending to speak English with a Japanese accent, which is also different
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James Kyson, who is Korean-American, had to go through all that to play Ando in Heroes
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And did a pretty good job with it, even though it was a pretty unrewarding role on an unrewarding show
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I remember when I heard they were doing a new version of "Hawaii 5-0" and Kim was going to be in it, and I thought, "Brilliant!"
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