Why Grace Park Had To Leave Hawaii Five-0

Although Grace Park's departure from Hawaii Five-0had to do withunequal pay among cast members, executive producer Peter M. Lenkov implied the actress left the show to reunite with her family. However, as Park revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, that wasn't the case. "I let him know, 'That wasn't cool that you made a

Although Grace Park's departure from Hawaii Five-0 had to do with unequal pay among cast members, executive producer Peter M. Lenkov implied the actress left the show to reunite with her family. However, as Park revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, that wasn't the case. "I let him know, 'That wasn't cool that you made a statement on my behalf,'" Park said. "I know he did it to be helpful, and I care about Peter as a person, but I didn't leave for that reason."

"There were a number of factors spanning the show that affected the non-renewal of my contract. I'm grateful for the lessons learned, but I chose what was best for my integrity," she added. 

"I know that people are always trying their best, and everyone's coming from their own backgrounds. Throughout the whole series, I kept trying to see the best in everybody... Would I do it all over again? I wouldn't be so quick to say yes ... I'm still figuring stuff out. Sometimes people are just really good at burying stuff, and I think I'm like that."

As Variety's Sonia Saraiya wrote, Park and co-star Daniel Dae Kim represented the series' opportunity to "address, reframe, and appreciate" the original 1968 iteration of the show, as the focus on its white actors resulted in "yellowface casting in a manner that would be utterly unacceptable by contemporary standards." But, as the pay debacle illustrated, the reboot had its own latent race issues.

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