People have been left seriously blown away by Daniel Dae Kim’s articulate, off-the-cuff remarks about “ethnic-specific casting” in a recent interview for “American Masters.” Jamie Mccarthy / Getty Images For reference, 57-year-old Kim was born in South Korea, but moved to the United States when he was one year old, and grew up in Pennsylvania. He is arguably best known …
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Daniel Dae Kim called out the “chilling effect” on free speech and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in Hollywood. In an Associated Press interview conducted in Seoul, South Korea, the Tony nominee was asked if he’s worried about backlash against DEI efforts in the entertainment industry. “We’re already seeing it,” the Butterfly actor and executive producer said. “If you look …
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Lost’s Daniel Dae Kim On Ethnic-Specific Casting People have been left seriously blown away by Daniel Dae Kim’s articulate, off-the-cuff remarks about “ethnic-specific casting” in a recent interview for American Masters. For reference, 57-year-old Daniel was born in South Korea, but moved to the United States when he was one year old, and grew up in Pennsylvania. He is arguably …
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[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for all six episodes of Butterfly.] After executing his plan to take down the vicious spy organization Caddis, David Jung (Daniel Dae Kim) still has his work cut out for him after the events of the finale of Butterfly. The series follows David as he returns from a faked death — and new …
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Reina Hardesty and Daniel Dae Kim, Butterfly Juhan Noh/Prime It’s less damning than it sounds at first to say that Butterfly never gets better than the action set piece that opens its first episode. It’s not that the rest of the series is bad, far from it. Co-created by Ken Woodruff (The Mentalist) and novelist Steph Cha, this adaptation of …
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Daniel Dae Kim plays a spy who faked his own death in the new thriller series Butterfly on Amazon Prime Video. He’s pictured above in Park City, Utah, in 2020. Mat Hayward/Getty Images for The Latinx House hide caption toggle caption Mat Hayward/Getty Images for The Latinx House Actor Daniel Dae Kim first broke into Hollywood as one of the …
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Ever since his breakout role in the widely popular series Lost, Daniel Dae Kim has been killing it on the screen. Most recently, he’s been involved in projects like Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters and Avatar: The Last Airbender, but we finally get to see him take center stage in Prime Video’s Butterfly. Kim has always been outspoken about Asian representation …
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