Grace Park talks about Hawaii Five-O and how she got the part of Kona
August 23, 2010 by Lance Carter
Filed under Interviews
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Grace Park is probably best known for her work on Battlestar Gallactica. Or maybe you caught her on Stargate, The Dead Zone or in the Benjamin Bratt series, The Cleaner. Regardless of where you’ve seen her, you know she can hold her own against strong male characters.
Well, she’s about to do it again in the re-boot of Hawaii Five-O.
She plays Kona, who in the original series was a man. We talked at Comic-Con (in a roundtable format so most of the questions aren’t mine) about her character, how she got the part and more!
How has the character of Kona changed from the original series? Can you talk about who Kona is?
Grace Park: I think Kona adds an interesting element because you could have Hawaii Five-0 be a team of four men and that would be great, but it’s always great to be able to have more tools at your disposal. And if you do have a woman on the team there’s things they may or may not be able to access because of the sheer fact that she’s a woman. You can disarm people, that kind of thing.
She is a rookie cop that’s going to join this new forming team and she’s related to Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) and she gets to meet Danno (Scott Caan) and McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) right off the bat. She participates in something she probably wouldn’t be able to on her own because she would be just a rookie out of the academy and into the police force. But, she gets thrust into this world of crime but really cutting-edge, like, at the forefront, and probably not following all the rules but they get done what they need to get done and it’s kind-of the nature of this new team, Hawaii Five-0.
