One Last Thing with Daniel Dae Kim:LostActor Reveals What Memento He Took from the Set (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Daniel Dae Kim.Photo:Yuri Hasegawa

Yuri Hasegawa

Daniel Dae Kimadmits he wanted to have a memento from his years on theLostset.

TheHawaii Five-Ostar, 56, “wanted something that I could keep with me and didn’t take up a lot of space,” he tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “A lot of people took things like life preservers, but I just thought that’s going to be bulky to carry around. So I took an ashtray from the crashed airplane. It’s one of those removable old school ones that used to be in the the arm rest.”

Daniel Dae Kim in ‘Lost,’ 2004.Shutterstock

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TheAvatar: The Last Airbenderstar, who returns to Broadway in September with the playYellow Face, chatted more with the magazine for One Last Thing:

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Last game I playedI play Wordle every day with four other actors, but I won’t name-drop. We see who can solve it the fastest. Bragging rights is a big thing with us.

Daniel Dae Kim on ‘Lost’.Mario Perez/Walt Disney Television via Getty

Last time I was starstruckI was eating lunch in a restaurant, and next to me wasJulie Andrews. I grew up lovingThe Sound of Music.I couldn’t even introduce myself; I just sat there dumbstruck.

Yellow Facewill begin previews Sept. 13, with opening night set for Oct. 1 at the Todd Haimes Theatre.

source: people.com