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Lost is still wildly popular today thanks to streaming services, and rumors of a reboot, despite the series ending over 10 years ago. When the series premiered in 2004, it was a phenomenon from the start and included an ensemble cast. However not everything on the series was sunshine and rainbows at the beginning, as
Lost vet Daniel Dae Kim reveals why he was so stressed throughout the first season.
Lost follows a group of people stranded on an island after their plane crashes. Surviving on a jungle island for who knows how long is not easy and characters large and small died throughout the showâs six-season run. However, one characterâs fate was almost entirely different, nearly changing the course of the series. Daniel Dae Kim, who portrayed Jin-Soo Kwon for all six seasons, revealed to Vulture that the entire cast was afraid of their character dying early on and his characterâs death was actually planned for the
Daniel Dae Kim Confronted J.J. Abrams About Asian Stereotypes on Lost Pilot
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The Hawaii Five-0 actor opens up that he had issues with the way his character was portrayed on the very first episode of Lost and complained to the creators. Apr 15, 2021
Lost after becoming concerned about the way his character played on Asian stereotypes.
The star feared how his role as dominant husband Jin-Soo Kwon to his submissive onscreen wife Sun, played by
Yunjin Kim, would be perceived by viewers if their characters didn t evolve beyond the pilot episode in 2004 and took his complaints directly to creators
Daniel Dae Kim confronted the creators of Lost about the way his character on the show played on Asian stereotypes.
The 52-year-old actor starred in the TV series as Jin-Soo Kwon and advocated to have his alter ego and his wife Sun (played by Yunjin Kim) evolve as characters after the pilot episode of the programme in 2004.
The relationship between the couple was criticised at first as it played into the Asian stereotype of dominant husband and submissive wife, and Daniel urged the show s creators J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof to develop the parts.
He said: My greatest fear was that the pilot of Lost would air, but the series would not â because if you were to see the pilot as the totality of my character, you would have been left with that stereotype.
Daniel Dae Kim is revealing little known nuggets about the breakthrough role that put him on the map.
The award-winning actor gained fame through his beloved character Jin-Soo Kwon on J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelofâs Emmy Award-winning ABC supernatural drama âLost,â a big hit during the mid-to-late aughts.
But according to Kim, the role of the South Korean-born doorman-turned-waiter-turned-enforcer had an alternate fate.
âThere were maybe one or two of us that really had job security,â the 52-year-old New York University alum revealed to Vulture. âFrom what I understand, it was planned for me to be killed off in season one. I was not a very sympathetic character, so it would have been easy for me to get killed off without the show missing a beat.â