Actor Ken Leung (‘Industry’) Enters a New Season

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

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🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For the past couple decades, actor Ken Leung has played scene-stealing characters in films like Rush Hour, Keeping the Faith, and A.I. Or, prestige TV shows like Lost and The Sopranos.

Today, he joins us to discuss his spectacular turn in HBO’s Industry (7:30), how he created his character in baseball-bat-wielding manager Eric Tao (9:55), and his Brooklyn upbringing to a family of Chinese immigrants (17:35). Then, he shares how he found his footing as an actor (23:30), a memory of his late younger brother, Kevin (29:27), and why he views each film and TV set as a ‘spiritual space’ (30:56).

On the back-half, we walk through Leung’s work on The Sopranos (32:30), his present-day collaboration with actor Myha’la (37:45), the arc of this latest season of Industry (44:15), the state of representation in Hollywood (48:06), and why he feels at peace in this moment (53:00).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, so welcome to the show. Today on Part 1 of our industry week actor Ken Leung on the show he plays
0:47.4	Eric Tao the ferocious baseball bat-wielding manager who presides over the peer point trading floor like a general
0:55.2	in a combat zone, marshalling a cadre of college grads eager to land a position at what
1:01.0	Tao calls the World's Preeminent Financial Investment Bank.
1:05.3	The show's latest season follows Pier Point's foray into, quote, ethical investing,
1:10.3	which finds Eric brokering the IPO launch of a new green tech energy company called
1:15.9	Lumi.
1:16.9	Here's a clip from the trailer.
1:18.9	Well, if it isn't our future Prime Minister.
1:24.0	To England?
1:25.0	To friends.
1:27.0	Old and new.
1:30.0	I got an email about a girl on your desk dealing with embezzlement and a
1:34.8	missing daddy. The press want a public face for this scandal.
1:39.8	I needed my friend and you used me.
1:43.6	Does it uphold you that I have somehow managed to make it on my own?
1:47.6	Everyone's collateral.
1:49.2	We hold the line.
1:50.4	Where's your stomach?
1:51.6	I hope you all enjoy feeling your flesh, seer, in the hell you've created.
1:57.0	I think Pierpoint might be absolutely fucked.
2:02.0	Yeah. What else is new?
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