By Deni Rose M. Afinidad
Lost, one of American television’s critically-acclaimed television series, recently aired its season-four finale on AXN Beyond.
Lost Season 4 has garnered a total of seven Emmy nominations this year, including Outstanding Drama Series. The season focused on the escape of the Oceanic Six and the survivors’ ordeal with the people from the freighter Kahana.
One of the season’s highlights is the addition of Ken Leung to the cast. Leung is the only new Asian face for the season, joining the ensemble of Lost S4 as a psychic medium named Miles Straume of the freighter crew.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | 9:38 AM
By Aaron Hillis
38-year-old New York actor Ken Leung (”Rush Hour,” “Saw,” “The Squid and the Whale”) may have only gigged on a single episode of “The Sopranos” (as Junior Soprano’s violent prot?g? in a psychiatric hospital), but it was enough to inspire producers to write him into another TV pop phenomenon, “Lost.” As brooding spiritualist Miles Straume, one of the elusive strangers to parachute onto the island, Leung brings to the role both quiet menace and caustic wisecracks.
Leung can also be seen in writer/director David Kaplan’s rotoscope-animated indie “Year of the Fish,” a contemporary retelling of the Cinderella fairytale set in a seedy massage parlor and the streets of Chinatown. Leung costars as Johnny, an accordion player who may also be the Prince Charming to disillusioned immigrant Ye Xian (An Nguyen). Notoriously shy, Leung graciously offered up a phone interview from Hawaii while preparing to shoot his next puzzling episode of “Lost.”
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