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"HEROES" STAR JAMES KYSON LEE!

James Kyson Lee stars in NBC's award-winning ensemble drama series "Heroes" as Ando Masahashi, a boisterous Tokyo executive who embarks on wild adventures with his time-traveling friend Hiro Nakamura. “Heroes” follows the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities.

Most recently, Lee starred in the Sci-Fi Channel’s TV movie “Termination Shock,” as well as the romantic comedy “White on Rice,” which hits theaters in 2010.

At his first television audition, Lee landed a guest-starring role on “J.A.G.” He has since appeared on NBC's “Las Vegas,” “The West Wing” and “Heist,” as well as “Threat Matrix” and “All About the Andersons.”

In film, Lee recently starred in the 2008 horror feature, “Shutter.”

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Lee moved with his family to New York City at the age of 10. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science and continued his education at Boston University and New England Institute of the Arts, where he studied communications. While in New England Lee enrolled in music, dance, and improvisation courses. Inspired by his newly discovered passion for performing, he sold his used car for $1,800 in the summer of 2001 and purchased a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. Lee began training as a jazz singer, and eventually made the transition from music to acting.

A student of improvisation and sketch comedy at I.O. West and the Upright Citizens Brigade, Lee also enjoys playing basketball in the NBA celebrity league and the piano, as well as reading and watching documentaries.

Duration:: 25m
Broadcast on:: 18 Jan 2010
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"Love to radio" It is Buzzworthy Radio, where you can get the latest buzz on all your favorite shows inside. Buzzworthy is inside. Now! Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the new edition of Buzzworthy Radio. On this Monday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it's not really his birthday, but we just celebrated it on today. This Monday, January 18, 2010. It's 11, 3 a.m., Easter Standard Time, 8, 30 a.m. Pacific Coast Time. We are going to be joined by James Kiesenly, who stars in NBC's award-winning drama series Heroes as Ando. We're going to be talking to him in about 10 minutes time, so make sure you got your questions in for me. He is also on Twitter, so make sure you guys find him on Twitter at JamesKiesenly, or on his website, JamesKiesenly.com. He's everywhere, not just here, but he's all over the place. That's right. I saw last night that there are going to be a lot of rallies going on for Conan. Conan, Coco, you got some stuff going on with Coco today in Chicago, New York, outside of Universal Studios today. And it's funny because I had no idea how much support was going to show for that guy. I mean, we're all Conan fans here. Don't get me wrong. We are, but I had no idea that they were going to show so much support for him. That's great. I love it. I love the fact that they're coming out and showing support for Conan right now. And his last show is Friday. Can you believe it? His last show is Friday. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I'm going to be so devastated when he's off the air. I'm not a huge Leno fan to be quite honest with you. I never have been, and I can be honest with you because I guess it's my program. I'm allowed to be honest. But I've never been his. I just don't think Jay Leno's funny. He is not funny. And who cares about the fact that you worked your way up to get to where you are? And Conan was a Harvard boy. So what? What does that have to do with anything? That's a really lame argument. But you know what? That's just me. Maybe that's just my naivete rolling through. I don't get it. But honestly, step down. You gave it up. You wanted it to basically end that way. At least that's what I thought. I'm trying a lot of words to be described in the best way possible. But I know people telling me that Jay Leno was forced out. He was forced out. He didn't want to leave the tonight show. I'm like, "What? I thought you wanted to retire?" I don't know you guys. I'm pretty much done with that whole thing. And I think it's now time for him to just hang out with his boots and just go somewhere and work on his car. He's pretty much wearing rolls. Just work on his car. No more on the left. And that's how I see fit with it. But again, that's just my opinion. So if you are in any of those areas where those rallies are taking place, I do advise you to go to them. I do advise you to go. Show your support for Conan, no Brian. Absolutely, man. Absolutely. Now, the other thing I have to mention is this. I think it's absolutely hysterical. It's hysterical that Larry Platt's going to be on the view. If you are in the East Coast area, it's on right now on ABC. He's supposed to be on the view. He's supposed to be on the view right now. And if you don't know who Larry Platt is, let me give you a little rundown of him for just a second. Larry Platt was the guy on American Idol last week, last Wednesday, and did the infamous "Pan on the Ground" song, which everybody was singing. Everybody was loving on. They loved it. Everybody in America was singing the song. There have been fan groups for him on Facebook that have been coming out of the woodwork. The one I joined and didn't take no more than one day to get that fan page up past 60,000 fans. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Can you believe the fact? See, I must be doing something wrong, folks. I must not be doing something right at all. I must need to get my ass out to these American Idol auditions, make an ass of myself, and just basically be the next William Hong. I don't know, what do you guys think? Do you think I should go out there the next time and just basically just do something that's going to catch their eyes and be like, "What the hell are you doing?" And just be like, "You know, it's going to be absolutely but undeniably crazy." I think I should. I think I should. I think I should. What do you think? Let's take it to a vote. You want to see me on American Idol doing something vehemently off the cheesy crazy, you know, send me an email. I'm Natalie at buzzworthyradio.net. Oh, hey, I might do it. I might do it. It depends on how much I get paid and how much liquor I have in my body. Just saying. Just saying. Just pointing that out there. And we got some football fans out there. I'm a football fan as well. And I watched the Cardinals game yesterday on Fox, and not yesterday, but on Saturday I watched the Cardinals game. Sunday I watched the Cowboys play. And if you know me, I am an Eagles fan, but I am not a Philly fan. But I am an Eagles fan. And it's ironic. Not really ironic, but it's just really funny that all of the Eagles fans came out of the woodwork yesterday and talked smack about the Cowboys. They talked smack about the Cowboys because they lost. I mean, granted, they did lose bad, but they slaughtered the Cowboys when they basically called them out. And I'm going, wait a minute. I don't get it. Why are we calling out the Cowboys for it? Are we are the birds back in the playoffs again? Like, why are we happy? You happy because now they're not in the playoffs anymore. They're now out. Okay, but why? Why are you happy? The birds are gone. The birds are gone. You might as well just suck it up and go. We'll see what happens next year. Well, maybe, again, that's my naive thing going on and I had people coming to me saying like, oh, well, it's just the fact that they hate each other. We hate the team. The Eagles hate the Cowboys. I'm like, but why? But why? I don't get it. Why do we hate those so bad? Where did this rivalry come from? I mean, we had it for so long that, you know, I kind of forgot, but I have absolutely no idea why we hate them so much. So if anybody can explain to me where did the rivalry of the Cowboys come from, please explain it to me. Just explain why they... Why do we hate each other so much? If you can tell me, I'll probably die a happy man. Just for that alone. Just for that alone, I'll die a happy man. But I don't know. I really don't know you guys. But I love my sports. I love being able to combat with everybody about them, but this is just one argument that I'll probably never understand. Mark Nelson, if you're listening right now, I understand now why you want to come on the show. That's a friend of mine from back home, and he's basically been proposition to get on the show. I now start to understand exactly why you want to do this. I get it. I get it. I totally get it. I totally get it. So you know what? If you're interested still and you want to do this, let's do it. I'm all for it, man. I'm all for it. Shoot me email. We'll get you here. He'll probably bring a lot of people call it in because he's very outspoken. He's very outspoken. He hates Philly fans. No matter what team it is, he hates Philly fans. He's very vocal about Obama, and he'll just rub it in your face. He'll just rub everything in your face. No matter what. There's an argument so far that Nelson and I have had that I have not won yet. I've not won the argument. I'm trying, folks. I'm trying to win this argument with him, but it's not working. It could give you some pointers. It's a pointer, huh? Anything? I love it if you would, please. But enough about that. Not about me. I know you're not wanting to listen to all my gripes about the cowboys winning, losing, and all that stuff. But look, if you can't get out of the kitchen, folks, seriously, they beat Big Eagle three times in a row. I get it. The cowboys boss. I get it. I get it. Just get over it. It's always next year. Get over it. But enough about me. Enough about my gripes. Let's bring on the man. Let's bring on the man of the ten minutes. I can't say the hour. Let's bring on the man of the ten minutes. Let's bring on the man of the ten minutes. I guess that's how I can say it. James Kisonly is joining us right now. We're actually on hold. That's why you hear the music right now. But James Kisonly is joining us online, plays ano on NBC's Heroes. So, as soon as we get off of health, we'll be talking to him. It's a matter of a few seconds. Maybe it's like some music. Oh, there he is. I'm here. I'm back. How are you? Doing good. Oh, it's good. Hey, guys. Good to be here. I'm just sitting here. I'm listening to the music. I'm like, this is really bad music. I've been jumping from city to city for the last couple hours. I've been seeing that doing this last little tour for like four hours today. It's funny. I was just in Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show and that was a pretty intriguing experience. Yeah. Is this your first video tour experience for you? I'm doing this like this, like this. You've never done one of these before? No, I've done a lot of, you mean the radio tours? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, no. I've done it several, but I was just talking to someone right before you. I know all of a sudden they come in straight into you. So, that's what sort of brought me off for a second. Oh, okay. Cool. Very, very cool. So, all you guys are listening right now. If you haven't checked out Heroes, this is your time to tell them exactly what character you play. Who is he? All that good stuff. Here you go. Okay. Well, it's James Kiesomly and I play Ando on the show. And of course, you know, we're back on Monday nights at 9 p.m. on NBC. And tonight it's going to be a very big episode. What's going down tonight? Can you give us a little bit of a taste what's going down tonight? Yeah, you know, I read it, I read it, I read it, and I look forward to it, but just a little bit. What's been fun in the last couple of episodes is that I've been basically playing Sherlock Holmes trying to decode Heroes' messages because he's only been talking to me in pop culture references. And last week we finally got scratched out of the mental institution and I temporarily restored Heroes' brain by using my lightning power. We call it electro-shock therapy. But tonight you're going to see the consequences of that. First of all, Heroes on trial for his crimes against humanity because he tried to ban space-time continuum and the gods weren't too pleased that he tried to mess around with history. So I'm going to have to do my best impression of Atticus Finch and see if I could get in my hand. I saw that tweet, by the way. If you're not following me on Twitter, follow me on Twitter @JamesKiesomly, all won't work. I saw that tweet and I'm going like, "Really?" Yeah, and we're doing something on this show that we've never tried before. There's a cool scene in the banner that was filmed and it'll be a very interesting layout. And there are a couple of surprise cameos by characters that we have not seen in a while. Nice little view here. You got a lot of guest stars in tonight's episode from what I'm seeing. Oh my god, I'm not going to disagree with the stillness. Can I still? I guess so. Sorry, sorry, sorry. First of the day, first of the day is back. David Anders is back who played Adam O'Rourke in the second season. By the way, I've always enjoyed working with George. So when he comes on set, I try to make him say really mundane stuff in his voice and he was like, "James, my songs are itchy." [laughter] Boy, it would be like, I just wanted to tell you that we've run out of granola bars. [laughter] And it's always a trip talking to him because he's been around the business for 50 years and he's always got these stories to share. That's so cool, man. I love that. I love that. Yeah. Now, there's actually a movie that's supposed to come out this year that you just did, "White on Rice." Yeah, okay. [laughter] Yeah, it's all the time when I just started cracking up because I was like, "No, wait a minute." It's not what you think of what people don't notice. It's a phrase from a family stick together for like, "Why don't I?" It's actually a family comedy. Some people call it like a 40-year version meets loss and translation. But, you know, we filmed it out in Salt Lake City in Utah area and, yeah, it's sort of doing a role in upland across the country. I recently finished one called, "How to Make Love to a Woman," another great title with Kristen Ritter and Ian Somerhalder, so I should be coming out later this year. Oh, okay. And you just did the sci-fi movie termination shock. Yeah, which sci-fi network are renamed to star runners. I think they're hoping to bring it out on DVD. They've been re-airing it a few times. I do have a movie called, "The Closest," coming on DVD on April 20th. It's about six friends who get trapped in a place where the Donna tragedy took place back in the 1800s. So, if you're interested in the psychological thriller, "Horrors" on Run, then there might be something to check out. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, how did you get into the acting bug? Is it something I found you or is it something that you wanted to do? Yeah, I was at Boston at the time attending college and tried out improv for the first time and just kind of fell in love with it. But I didn't know anything about acting or Hollywood until I moved out to LA. You know, it's funny. I think sometimes not having any kind of expectation and any kind of knowledge about the business. Maybe working my favor, but, you know, it's definitely overwhelming. I moved out here with a one-way ticket and a suitcase. I definitely don't recommend doing that. It's just about to work out. [ Laughter ] No, folks. Don't do that. I thought about doing that. Don't do that. You have a job first before you move out there, please. Yeah, you know, I mean, and this is a funny city, too. You know, it's just a strange city that creates its own reality. So I think it's good to sort of get a straight head above your shoulders before moving out to this town. You sold your car for $1,800. Yeah. And that's how you find it. My 886 Honda Accord, I still remember it. And I remember walking on Hollywood Boulevard my first weekend here and just not knowing anybody in the city and walking along the walk of stars, the walk of fame and just thinking, "God, if anything happens to me right now, who's going to call my family?" So it was just a very sort of overwhelming thought. And luckily, you know, things worked out for me out here, so I'm glad. Absolutely it did. And improv, whenever I think of improv, I think it's so difficult because I can't -- for me, I can't come up with stuff off the top of my head like that. I can't just take a thing off of a whim and then go with it. Yeah, I've got to tell you, Lee, as an actor, it's probably one of the most scary things that you could participate in because you literally are being asked to go up on stage with nothing and then make stuff up with other actors on stage. And, you know, I think once you've overcome that, you've sort of overcome a lot of years. And I think it's helped me to just kind of create stuff on the spot. Very, very cool. I mean, look, if I felt like if I could do improv, I could probably do this show, and you know what? I -- I suck. [laughter] It's good to know you're on radio talking to music. [laughter] It's like probably everybody just now tuned out and was like, "Oh, snap. We can't listen to him. He's not here. No, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding." But now, man. It's amazing. One thing I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show was that how media has changed so much, just even in the last four years. I mean, if you look at our show, we're one of the new generation shows that's really embraced this technology. And now people are seeing us on their phones and their iPod and their computer. And, you know, Netflix, DVD, Amazon, Hulu, NBC, you name it. You know, the whole traditional Nielsen readings don't really apply to us anymore. And, you know, big thing this year was the whole 3D high definition television. They're trying to bring the avatar technology experience into your home. So, you know, a couple of years down the line, you might be able to, you know, experience heroes in 3D. Absolutely. I'll be looking forward to that, actually. Make sure you guys check out Heroes Tonight. See the wonderfulness of Atticus Finch appeared on your screen. You can find, you can find them on Twitter at James Kaisenley. You can find them on his website, James Kaisenley.com. Thanks so much for stopping by, man. It was a pleasure having you. You're welcome. Good to talk to you. Good talking to you. Take care. All right, guys. I am out of here for the day, but we shall be back very, very soon. I will keep you up to date and post it on when our next show is. If you want to find out, log on to our site at www.buzzworthyradio.net. You can follow us on Twitter @buzzworthyradio. You can join our Facebook fan page. Just look for Buzzworthy Radio and just go there. We'll keep you updated up and posting on everything and all things entertainment. We keep following stuff going on with all the Conan and Jay stuff and everything else in the entertainment business. The only thing I can probably say is I was not following the Golden Globes because I didn't watch it, but I should have, but I didn't. But anyway, I am out. Thank you guys so much for tuning into the show. This podcast will be uploaded onto the website very, very, very shortly. Make sure you guys go to buzzworthyradio.net and click on the media tab. And basically, you can download all of our past shows that we had in the past two years. So make sure you guys check that out. I'm out on the bell, Jay Lee making sure you guys get the latest buzz with Buzzworthy Radio. We'll see you guys next time. All right? Take care. Can't get enough of Buzzworthy Radio. Knock on down to www.buzzworthyradio.net. To get the latest news, I'm upcoming guests, past shows and videos of all your favorite stars. 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