Daniel Dae Kim March DaMan Magazine Cover

If nothing else, Daniel Dae Kim is happy he’s never played the Chinese food delivery man

Lost star Daniel Dae Kim cuts right to the chase in his interview for this month’s DaMan magazine. Does it suck being an Asian actor? Well, it certainly can:

“I take a little bit of pride in that I don’t feel like I’ve taken any roles that I regret in terms of cultural representation,” he shares. “I’ve never done the stereotypicalAsian nerd or anything like that. But that’s not to say that there isn’t that kind of dynamic in Hollywood. There is definitely a categorization of Asian males, in particular. What I mean to say is though the roles might not be overtly offensive, they are definitely secondary and exist only to serve another character. For instance, a lot of roles that I have played have been in support of the leads and I was there to deliver exposition. They’re not stereotypical roles but they are representative of a ceiling that a lot of us face.”

~MN