Ed Asner Reprises ‘Five-0’ Role 37 Years Later

By ETCanada.com Staff. 2 Mar 2012 6:41 AM

Thirty-seven years after he guest-starred on the original Hawaii Five-0, Emmy-award winner Ed Asner is returning to the new version of the show as a guest star to reprise the same role of a diamond smuggler that he played decades ago.

“He’s a no b.s. kind of guy. He knows what good television is and what isn’t,”; star Daniel Dae Kim said of Asner. “He’s been around the block long enough to know what he needs to get out a scene and it’s actually really refreshing.”;

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Scott Caan also had his fair of complimentary words for the 82-year-old accomplished actor, stating that Asner was “one of the coolest guys [he has] ever met in [his] life.”;

Asner, who voiced Carl Fredricksen (the old man) in the animated film Up, asserted that he loved the idea of reprising a role that he played decades ago and that he feels as though he did a better job of playing his character this time around.

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“Malicious as I was then, I do an even better job now of being “Sneaky Pete,'”; he said of his performance in the upcoming episode.

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Check out Asner as a diamond smuggler “August March”; 37 years later on an all-new Hawaii Five-0 Monday night at 10 p.m. on Global.

Watch more from Ed on his role reprisal below!