Yunjin Kim remembered by name!
Apr 8th, 2008 by dino-ray
Guess who called me yesterday at work…
Yunjin Kim! (a.k.a. Sun from Lost)
She is contributing her voice to my “Asian Americans in Entertainment” piece I am working on.
Actually she was a bit late calling me - about 30 minutes late. But that’s okay. I mean, c’mon it’s SUN from LOST! You can’t get mad at her!
So the interview went well and she gave me some great insight on her views concerning Asian Americans in entertainment. If you don’t already know, she lived in New York, went to Korea and became a movie star there and then came back stateside to work on her Hollywood career. That’s pretty much her story in a nutshell.
Of course we chatted about Asian Americans in the world of entertainment, but I just HAD to ask her about Lost.
So I asked how she felt about Sun and Jin’s story. What did she want to happen with their characters? How did she feel about their development? I asked if she could at least give me a hint - but she just gave me one of those optimistic answers of ambiguity:
“I believe in happy endings,” she said. I could tell she was smiling over the phone.
Considering Sun and Jin are two of my favorite characters, I hope that their story does end happy - but her answer can mean many things. There could be a hopeful closure to his death. Jin may not be dead at all. Sun and her child can have a joyful reunion with her husband. Who knows?
Anyways, we were chatting and having a great conversation and towards the end of the interview, I told her, “I don’t know if you remember - but I met you a couple of years ago at the Television Critics Association conference in Pasadena.”
She then said, “I thought your name sounded familiar!”
I had to contain my excitement! A famous person remembered me!!! I mean, how could you not forget someone as obnoxious as me?