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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.

For Leung, it’s a great honor to be part of one of America’s cult TV shows, with an estimated devoted fan base of 16 million viewers per episode.

“My role in Lost is the biggest difference in my career so far,” says Leung, a New York native who attended New York University as a university scholar and studied acting with actress-singer Catherine Russell and artistic producer-director Nan Smithner, then briefly with celebrated American stage actress Anne Jackson at HB Studio. He acted mostly in downtown spaces and black boxes, dropping anchor with groups such as Ma-Yi, New Perspectives and STAR, a traveling troupe of actors-educators based in Mt. Sinai Hospital.

In 1997, Brett Ratner cast him in Rush Hour, then Edward Norton included him in his directorial debut, Keeping the Faith. Since then, Leung has appeared in several Indie and TV films, as well as features, including four films with Ratner and two with Spike Lee, an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

In 1998, he played James the Less and God in Terrence McNally’s passion play, Corpus Christi, and in 2002 made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Before Lost, Ken has starred in other renowned TV programs such as Law & Order, New York Undercover, and Oz. He has also appeared in major Hollywood movies such as Red Corner, The Family Man, Artificial Intelligence: A.I., Vanilla Sky, Red Dragon, Saw, and X-Men: The Last Stand.

In 2007, he starred in the independent film Shanghai Kiss with Hayden Panettiere, and guest-starred in an episode of the final season of the HBO drama series, The Sopranos. This memorable guest role inspired the producers of Lost to cast him in a regular role in the series’ fourth season.

“The part he’s playing—it’s a character we wrote very specifically for Ken. Nobody else read for it. It had to be him,” Damon Lindelof, one of Lost’s executive producers, tells Entertainment Weekly in a separate article.

“In fact, given the construct of the character, it wouldn’t have been the same if we didn’t have him in the show. It is so specifically geared to what we thought he could do as an actor [that] if he had said no, we would have had to scrap the character and rewrite him and come up with a different one,” adds Carlton Cuse, Lindelof’s co-executive producer.

Leung describes his new character as “alone in the world.”

“He grew up very poor with unusual capabilities to connect to energy, and uses that to make a living,” he adds.

Although he is not a psychic in real life, Ken is similar to his role in a number of ways. First, he describes himself as “an open wound” who can sense energies upon meeting people. Second, he can relate to Miles in his loneliness.

“Once, I had an ailment that separated me from my loved ones,” he shares. “That strong feeling of isolation comes back to me whenever I’m playing Miles.”

But unlike the other roles he played before, Miles Straume is very unpredictable, as volatile as the Lost series that keeps its viewers on the edge.

“It doesn’t feel comfortable being in Lost,” he divulges. “I can’t prepare for my character because I always don’t know what’s going on. Everything can change. But it’s a great thing because if I don’t feel so good, I can use different muscles, deal with unfamiliar circumstances, give up control and not think too much. Never had I experienced something like this before.”

If he’d be lost for real, Leung says he’d rather be in a place where he can spend “a very intense, personal moment” with a loved one. Being in Lost gives him this privilege, he says, since he has to move to lush and sunny Hawaii, where the series is being shot. He now rents a place there with his girlfriend who is also an American artist with a Chinese descent.

“In New York, you always have to be on your toes. In Hawaii, everybody’s always on a vacation mode, always in a good mood,” he enthuses.

After Lost, he declares: “My next project will just unfold itself,” maintaining a tone true to his character’s psychic nature.

Lost’s Season Five is set to air shortly right after the S4 finale. Lindelof and Cuse dropped some hints about the upcoming season and suggested that they have come up with a new twist on the flashbacks/flashforward narrative device. But of course, after all the season finales, Lost fans only look forward to that one great ending—one that ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson has announced as “highly-anticipated” and “shocking.”

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