After whitewashing controversy, Daniel Dae Kim steps in to replace Ed Skrein in Hellboy
In a perfect convergence of two separate news events from this summer, former Hawaii Five-O star Daniel Dae Kim is in talks to replace Ed Skrein in the Hellboy reboot. Kim, who is Korean-American, left CBS’ Hawaii Five-O back in July along with co-star Grace Park because the network wouldn’t pay them the same amount of money as their white co-stars, and a little more than a month later, Skrein decided to drop out of Hellboy after discovering that the character he would’ve played—Major Ben Daimio—is half-Japanese in the Hellboy comics.