EXCLUSIVE: Lost Actor Ken Leung to Appear in Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

Ken_LeungEven well after production has ceased, new additions to the cast of The Force Awakens continue to be revealed. StarWars7News has learned that actor Ken Leung, known for roles in Lost and X-Men: The Last Stand will appear in The Force Awakens…

 

 

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Ken Leung is an experienced TV and film actor. In addition to a regular role in the later seasons of the Abrams produced Lost, he has also appeared in a recurring role on the Bad Robot produced Person of Interest. Outside of TV, Leung has had numerous roles including smaller appearances in Spike Lee’s Inside Man, Brett Ratner’s Red Dragon, and Steven Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.

 

We’ve seen a definite proof that the actor is portraying some sort of military officer in the film. Based on the uniform he is wearing and the rank insignia on it, we can conclude that he is playing a Rebel/Resistance General in the movie.

 

He is wearing a brownish uniform with reddish belt and has a rank insignia that looks similar to this:

 

Insignia

Recently, The Force Awakens costume designer Michael Kaplan revealed that “The Rebels [in TFA] are in khakis and olives and some oranges—warmer colors.” This description definitely fits with Leung’s uniform.

 

And the rank insignia definitely resembles the old one used in previous movies, but instead of dots they’re using lines. Based on the old rebel rank insignia we assumed that he is playing a General in the movie.

 

Ranks
Old Rebel Rank Insignia

 

It’s curious that Leung’s character has the same rank as Ackbar. The uniform actually looks very close to this one (but with long sleeves):

 

Uniform

 

Although this all is very interesting, keep in mind that Leung filmed only for a few days so his character is probably not a major one.

 

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58 thoughts on “EXCLUSIVE: Lost Actor Ken Leung to Appear in Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

  • June 23, 2015 at 8:07 pm
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    Excellent. I loved Ken Leung, as Miles Straume, on LOST. Glad to see a familiar face, even if it is only for a small role.

    • June 23, 2015 at 9:54 pm
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      Right?! He was great on Lost. Also, this reminds me of the episode where Hurley was trying to write the script to The Empire Strikes Back and when he realizes that’s what he’s doing he berates him about what a ridiculous idea that is.

  • June 23, 2015 at 8:11 pm
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    It’s great to see an Asian male in STAR WARS. He might even survive his cameo! xD

    • June 23, 2015 at 8:18 pm
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      He dies when his resistance battleship is destroyed by the first order super weapon.

      Check back in 6 months to see if I was right 😉

      • June 23, 2015 at 9:37 pm
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        Oh, you’re one of those people who just can’t help blabbing spoilers. Nice.

        • June 23, 2015 at 9:55 pm
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          …What did you expect coming to this site?

      • June 24, 2015 at 9:57 pm
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        We can tell you’re lying because there’s no way the movie will be that boring and redundant. Nice try; don’t be a writer.

  • June 23, 2015 at 8:43 pm
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    I read the headline as if he were actually lost……

    • June 23, 2015 at 9:00 pm
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      😀 Suddenly he appeared in the movie and everybody turned happy. 🙂

      So there are at least four characters in the movie played by Asian actors/actresses. I think it’s very good. I hope their faces can be seen as well. 🙂

      • June 24, 2015 at 1:30 am
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        There’s an Asian in Star Wars rebels now too

  • June 23, 2015 at 8:50 pm
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    His comical character in Person of Interest is really delight in the dark mood of the series. I hope he will survive TFA , but likely not. Compared with Star Trek、Galactica, so few of Asian actors is disturbing .

  • June 23, 2015 at 8:59 pm
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    Curious that Leia’s outfit doesn’t match the rest of the Resistance.

    • June 23, 2015 at 9:06 pm
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      Leia is the new Sith Master. Her son is the apprentice.

      • June 23, 2015 at 9:23 pm
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        Yeah! =) Maybe she developed a father complex and started collecting sith stuff.

    • June 23, 2015 at 11:11 pm
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      I wondered about Leia too with her costume colors. But she is given the lightsaber toward the end of the movie and it is like the ANH costumes on the Tantive.

      • June 24, 2015 at 3:02 am
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        Since Leia is “The Other Hope” Yoda speaks about in ESB, and Obi-Wan confirms it in RotJ, she will be the one trained by Luke to fight all baddies and not the new young ones. She won’t give the lightsaber back to Luke, but will crave it and use it herself.

        • June 25, 2015 at 4:39 am
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          lei dies early in the film thats how the force awakens

    • June 24, 2015 at 6:37 am
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      Leia is the leader, she can do what she wants. And if the Resistance is a bit rag-tag like the Rebels, then there are probably several uniform types.

  • June 23, 2015 at 9:07 pm
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    MILESSSZ!!

  • June 23, 2015 at 9:09 pm
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    I think the list would be shorter of who is NOT in TFA.

    • June 23, 2015 at 11:15 pm
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      I am not…I assume you are either…so that’s 2 anyway.

  • June 23, 2015 at 9:21 pm
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    Finn should’ve been asian. Not that I really care for all this forced diversity nonsense.

    • June 23, 2015 at 9:38 pm
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      So you “don’t really care for all this diversity nonsense”, but insist a character should have been a different race. Makes sense.

      • June 23, 2015 at 9:54 pm
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        That sums it up in more words.

    • June 23, 2015 at 9:38 pm
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      I also wanted to see an Asian lead in the movie. But it’s not a problem. A new year brings a new SW movie.

    • June 24, 2015 at 10:00 pm
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      You do realize that this “forced diversity” is actually just how the human population is, right? Don’t you think cramming a galaxy only with white people is a bit more awkward than letting all types of people represent humans like they are on Earth?

  • June 23, 2015 at 9:46 pm
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    Ha, it would be cool if JJ took Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson and Jorge Garcia on any roles in Star Wars.

    • June 23, 2015 at 10:20 pm
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      Some people just want to watch the world burn.

      • June 23, 2015 at 10:28 pm
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        Why so serious?

    • June 24, 2015 at 4:30 am
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      I always thought that Josh Holloway would have made a great Solo offspring.

      • June 25, 2015 at 4:35 am
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        nice try josh,sorry not interested,nor will ever

  • June 23, 2015 at 10:22 pm
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    Toshiro Mifune was Lucas ‘s choice of Obiwan. Why not Asian actors as some Samurai Sith warrior ?

  • June 23, 2015 at 10:29 pm
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    General Purina isn’t in this one? dang it.

  • June 23, 2015 at 11:04 pm
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    They’ll have to find him first.

  • June 23, 2015 at 11:11 pm
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    Very cool… I don’t know how I feel about Gruenberg having such a big role (assuming he gets more than a few min of screen time)… but all the other members of the lost cast were fantastic.

    BTW… One of my friends made a cool pop-artsy rendition of BB8:

    http://auroraartbar.com/artist-feature/artist-feature-larry-law/

    • June 23, 2015 at 11:13 pm
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      I loved his R2D2 as well..

  • June 24, 2015 at 12:16 am
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    And there was much rejoicing!

  • June 24, 2015 at 12:37 am
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    The TFA rebels will be in khakis, olives and browns does not mean anything from the defeated Emporor of the Republic and demise of Gran-Moff Tarkin/Darth Vader-led imperial forces (unless we find out in TFA a new Sith Lord is in place but weaker from trailers). The black imperial officer uniform looking garment of princess (or queen depending on leaders of Organa situation) Leia we saw last week means nothing. We are familiar with Luke Skywalker daunting in ROJ a possible Anakin Jedi Knight black vs brown/tan Obi-Wan presented master Jedi garment probably to mimic, as a sign of respect, their greatest foes of the Sith. Meanwhile, the above insignia representing a possible Naval Captain uniform (!? Unknown what light blue bar over blue bar) to replace OT dots now means until TFA movie.

  • June 24, 2015 at 12:41 am
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    This is just another person JJ knew from a past show of his that he hired. No real news here.

    • June 24, 2015 at 6:54 am
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      JJ left LOST three years before Ken joined the show.

  • June 24, 2015 at 12:50 am
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    So glad they found Ken Leung – he’s been lost for so long! Funny he should show up in Star Wars Ep. 7, though.

  • June 24, 2015 at 2:55 am
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    I just figured out Disney’s master plan. Make 7,8,9 and 3 anthologies, then reboot the franchise starting with ” How to train your Jedi.”

  • June 24, 2015 at 4:05 am
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    How about an interview with John boyega or news about the force awakens plot?

  • June 24, 2015 at 4:06 am
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    Breaking news! Breaking news!

    There’s going to be practical effects in episode VII!!

    Shock!

    • June 24, 2015 at 5:42 am
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      I’m sticking with the 2d version of VII in theaters. I don’t want any of the practical effects to hit me.

  • June 24, 2015 at 11:06 am
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    yes! give us more asians and africans! and more black and asian females. because white males dont exist. right?

    • June 24, 2015 at 11:44 am
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      Apart from Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Domnhall Gleeson and Adam Driver you mean?

      • June 24, 2015 at 12:36 pm
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        He’s got a point. Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford are only in it because they were in the original trilogy, from before the diversity agenda had begun. It’s pretty obvious the biggest role white people have in the new star wars movies is that of oppressive evil. While the good guys are very diverse and “open minded”.

        • June 24, 2015 at 3:53 pm
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          White people get to play the heroes and the villains, not to mention make up the bulk of VII’s cast. But that’s not enough for you.

          How convenient of you to forget Rey, the likely lead hero of the ST. And minorities are in the Empire, like Finn before he AWOLed.

  • June 24, 2015 at 5:20 pm
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    Each Trilogy should have it’s merit in casting .
    Repeating the formula is not something visionary like JJ
    or Rian Johnson are going after.

  • June 25, 2015 at 3:57 am
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    star wars has asians,they need more white folk

    • June 25, 2015 at 4:03 am
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      yeah why is people acting like an asians never been in sw,who even cares just put great actors in it ,

      • June 25, 2015 at 2:02 pm
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        Asians are so rarely seen in ANYTHING Star Wars that people notice when it happens. You may trivialize this, but it’s important for Americans to see that people from all walks of life matter in our culture, not just mostly white men.

  • June 25, 2015 at 4:07 am
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    Bring back lando

  • June 25, 2015 at 4:14 am
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    Or put old lei back in the slave outfit, eww bet jabba wouldn’t even want her now

  • June 25, 2015 at 4:27 am
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    More white people please,im not joining the darkside

  • June 25, 2015 at 4:28 am
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    bahahaaa so funny

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