’ final season as the wily hospital roommate of Uncle Junior. The night that 2007 episode aired, the creators of ABC’s blockbuster seriescreated a character especially for Leung, which led to the actor’s 35-episode run as twitchy ghost-whisperer Miles Straume.
”The idea of going to Hawaii to shoot, it was so far and foreign, especially for a show where nobody’s able to tell you anything,” he says. “All of it was so uncomfortable at first, but by the end, Hawaii was part of me. When we wrapped, where I was bore no resemblance to where I started.” Since then, Leung has done the pilot-season rounds over and over, with some productions lasting longer than others . Few of the series were memorable, save for the work Leung put into them. But inmastermind Lena Dunham, Leung gets his best showcase ever. There is also a slight bleed between Leung’s career and Eric’s, given that both men had to fight for their opportunities, rather than wait to be handed them.
Ask Leung about his journey when it comes to on-screen representation of Asian-Americans, though, and he has a decidedly less TV-easy answer.”If you get a drink of water in the desert, it’s better. But it’s still a desert that you’re in,” he says. “I get asked this every few years.
The full season of Industry is available starting Nov. 27 on Crave; new episodes will continue to air weekly on HBO Canada through December.
Give this man an emmy! Deserves it!