A little-known fact about Daniel Dae Kim: He’s really, really into “Saturday Night Live.”
“I’m a super fan,” says the actor just a few days before starting performances for the revival of David Henry Hwang’s 2007 play “Yellow Face” on Broadway. Speaking on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast, he added, “I have not missed a single episode since probably 1980.”
That trivia tidbit may come as a surprise to those who know Kim best for the super-serious characters he plays on TV, like the loyal survivor Jin-Soo Kwon on “Lost” or the upstanding detective Chin Ho Kelly on “Hawaii Five-0.” But now this “SNL” enthusiast is subverting his own morally upright persona in Hwang’s play, in which he stars as a comically flawed version of the Tony-winning playwright.