Thanks to Lyly for finding these small comments from Terry regarding Season 5. Nothing very spoilery but with over 3 months to wait for our first Season 5 episode every little helps.
Q) HEY TERRY!!! so i was watching the season fanally for season 4 and i about wet myself when i saw you in the coffin. whats gonna happen next
A) You will be suitably frustrated and amazed. Enjoy season 5.
Q) how is the season 5 filming going so far ? are you enjoying this season more than the others as the story continues to progress?do you think Locke fans will be happy with what John Locke has been doing to date on the island(or off it !)
A) Season 5 is progressing well.........and I think Locke fans will be...............stunned.
Source: DarkUFO
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Lost's Dominic Monaghan Cast in Sci-Fi Film 'Fortuna'
Dominic Monaghan had a nice, long run on Lost. His portrayal of Charlie, the heroin-addicted former rock star, was nuanced and integral to the overall Lost mythology, and most fans were very sad to see him go. For an actor, leaving a well-paying consistent job on a popular television show can be difficult, especially for someone like Monaghan, who doesn't possess movie star looks and who will most likely have to spend his career working smaller roles. Dominic has just been cast in a new science fiction film set in the year 2100 called Fortuna. The film takes place in a bleak and depressing future, where climate change and a struggling economy has created a vast chasm between the wealthy and everyone else.
Fortuna is about a game that the wealthy have concocted to give the impoverished hope in the depressing times they live in. In the game Fortuna, one thousand desperate contestants vie to win a spot amongst the wealthy. However, there is more to the game than the participants would like to believe – none of the contestants are ever seen from again, which puts the elite class's goal of reducing poverty by 30% over the next 50 years in a much different light. Dominic Monaghan and Freddie Rodriguez (Six Feet Under) play contestants who enter into the game, despite their skepticism. Barthelemy Grossmann, who wrote the script and will direct, also will portray a contestant. Shooting begins November 10 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
While Dominic Monaghan is mostly known for his work on Lost and in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I think he'll have a nice filmography twenty years from now. In Lost, he showed off impressive acting range, and he has an interesting look, which will always allow him to find good work. If he plays his cards right, Monaghan could be one of our generation's most beloved character actors for years to come.
Source: buddytv.com
Fortuna is about a game that the wealthy have concocted to give the impoverished hope in the depressing times they live in. In the game Fortuna, one thousand desperate contestants vie to win a spot amongst the wealthy. However, there is more to the game than the participants would like to believe – none of the contestants are ever seen from again, which puts the elite class's goal of reducing poverty by 30% over the next 50 years in a much different light. Dominic Monaghan and Freddie Rodriguez (Six Feet Under) play contestants who enter into the game, despite their skepticism. Barthelemy Grossmann, who wrote the script and will direct, also will portray a contestant. Shooting begins November 10 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
While Dominic Monaghan is mostly known for his work on Lost and in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I think he'll have a nice filmography twenty years from now. In Lost, he showed off impressive acting range, and he has an interesting look, which will always allow him to find good work. If he plays his cards right, Monaghan could be one of our generation's most beloved character actors for years to come.
Source: buddytv.com
'Chuck' Finds 'Lost' Boy Monaghan
In what marks his first major TV gig since Lost, Dominic Monaghan has signed on to guest-star on NBC's Chuck as -- stop me if this sounds familiar -- a free-spirited British rock star targeted for death by a shadowy group of evildoers. And the similarities to his Lost alter ego Charlie don't end there. Well, actually, yes, they do. "This is a very, very different kind of character," insists executive producer Josh Schwartz of Monaghan's metalhead, who makes an in-store appearance at Buy More and ends up getting entangled in one of Chuck's spy games. "He's a lunatic in the best sense of the word. And there's no heroin [addiction]." Monaghan's participation is only half the Feb. 2 episode's sell: It also will air partly in 3-D, piggybacking on NBC's 3-D Super Bowl stunt. (The network will broadcast the big game the night before.) Aside from the cool factor of seeing himself in 3-D, what drew Monaghan to the role? Did he have any hesitation about channeling someone who, at least on paper, so closely resembles Charlie? And might his tube return be the precursor to another Lost comeback? Hmmm….Sounds like the set-up to an exclusive Q&A with Dominic Monaghan. Scratch that. It is the set-up to an exclusive Q&A with Dominic Monaghan.
AUSIELLO: Welcome back to TV. Why now and why Chuck?
DOMINIC MONAGHAN: I wanted to work with Josh Schwartz. I've been wanting to be in business with him for a long time. My agent got me more and more interested in his work and his background and his sensibilities and we've been looking for a way to [connect] for a while now. He's my age, he's smart and cool and, obviously, extremely invested in the industry. He's a comic book fan, he's a movie fan, he's a big fan of TV and gives it a lot of respect. It's the same reason I wanted to work on Lost. I walked into a meeting with Damon Lindelof and J.J. Abrams and really considered those two people to be the real future of television.
Your Chuck character, Tyler Martin, sounds strangely familiar…
He is an English rock star, so obviously there are similarities [to Charlie]. But this is a comedic role. Charlie was not incredibly comedic on purpose. I think Charlie had funny moments, but Charlie was quite tortured and into meth. The guy that I play on Chuck is just an out-and-out lunatic. If you were to look up "definitive rock star" in the dictionary, there would be a picture of him. But there was definitely a little trepidation. I never want to play the same thing twice.
What persuaded you to do it?
After meeting Josh Schwartz and reading the script, I realized that Charlie could never be this person. Charlie would not be a fan of Tyler. Charlie got into rock and roll for the music and to try and help himself in a therapeutic way. And I think Tyler got into rock and roll because he realizes that that's the easiest way to get free flights around the world. He's like Charlie in a hallucinogenic dream. He's like what Charlie would be in his most brilliant moment, but Tyler is like that all the time. So I thought it might be something that would tickle people to see.
When are you returning to Lost?
That's more of a question for Damon Lindelof. I don't really have a huge amount of control over that. I had a great time on the show, and I think Charlie is a character that is definitely missed. I know a lot of people on the show -- myself included -- get asked a lot of questions about when he's coming back. The general public seems to think he's on his way back at some point. But that's something for Damon to answer. All I can really say is if it was the right thing, of course I'd go back.
Do you still watch the show?
I watch it here and there. It's not as simple for me to watch it as it used to be, because, obviously, being on the show, I felt it was needed for me to watch it just to stay in that zone. Obviously, it's not as essential for me to watch it. But of course I know what's going on.
Source: ausiellofiles.ew.com
AUSIELLO: Welcome back to TV. Why now and why Chuck?
DOMINIC MONAGHAN: I wanted to work with Josh Schwartz. I've been wanting to be in business with him for a long time. My agent got me more and more interested in his work and his background and his sensibilities and we've been looking for a way to [connect] for a while now. He's my age, he's smart and cool and, obviously, extremely invested in the industry. He's a comic book fan, he's a movie fan, he's a big fan of TV and gives it a lot of respect. It's the same reason I wanted to work on Lost. I walked into a meeting with Damon Lindelof and J.J. Abrams and really considered those two people to be the real future of television.
Your Chuck character, Tyler Martin, sounds strangely familiar…
He is an English rock star, so obviously there are similarities [to Charlie]. But this is a comedic role. Charlie was not incredibly comedic on purpose. I think Charlie had funny moments, but Charlie was quite tortured and into meth. The guy that I play on Chuck is just an out-and-out lunatic. If you were to look up "definitive rock star" in the dictionary, there would be a picture of him. But there was definitely a little trepidation. I never want to play the same thing twice.
What persuaded you to do it?
After meeting Josh Schwartz and reading the script, I realized that Charlie could never be this person. Charlie would not be a fan of Tyler. Charlie got into rock and roll for the music and to try and help himself in a therapeutic way. And I think Tyler got into rock and roll because he realizes that that's the easiest way to get free flights around the world. He's like Charlie in a hallucinogenic dream. He's like what Charlie would be in his most brilliant moment, but Tyler is like that all the time. So I thought it might be something that would tickle people to see.
When are you returning to Lost?
That's more of a question for Damon Lindelof. I don't really have a huge amount of control over that. I had a great time on the show, and I think Charlie is a character that is definitely missed. I know a lot of people on the show -- myself included -- get asked a lot of questions about when he's coming back. The general public seems to think he's on his way back at some point. But that's something for Damon to answer. All I can really say is if it was the right thing, of course I'd go back.
Do you still watch the show?
I watch it here and there. It's not as simple for me to watch it as it used to be, because, obviously, being on the show, I felt it was needed for me to watch it just to stay in that zone. Obviously, it's not as essential for me to watch it. But of course I know what's going on.
Source: ausiellofiles.ew.com
Evangeline Lilly Regrets Stripping Off For Mens' Magazines
Evangeline Lilly regrets her past as a lads' mag pin-up.
The Lost star, 29, insists she only stripped for the pictures because she was told to.
She explains, "I was inexperienced back then and quite trusting so I had to learn how to deal with that.
"There's some ugly burned bridges in the past because I put my trust in people and they just didn't follow through.
"I ended up in Maxim magazine and things like that and I would never in a million years be caught dead in those magazines. So I'm now with the right people and they understand me."
Source: showbizspy.com
The Lost star, 29, insists she only stripped for the pictures because she was told to.
She explains, "I was inexperienced back then and quite trusting so I had to learn how to deal with that.
"There's some ugly burned bridges in the past because I put my trust in people and they just didn't follow through.
"I ended up in Maxim magazine and things like that and I would never in a million years be caught dead in those magazines. So I'm now with the right people and they understand me."
Source: showbizspy.com
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Evi stays away from beaches.
EVANGELINE Lilly refuses to set foot on a beach.
The Canadian beauty -- who played a sexy castaway on hit show Lost -- has come to hate being seen as a bikini babe and the attention that comes with it -- she's had to give up her love of the sun, sea and surf.
Lilly explains, "I've had to change my whole life,
"For the last two years in Hawaii I won't be caught dead on the beach. I can't go because I'm tired of seeing myself in a bikini on the cover of a tabloid magazine and being that woman.
"I'm not that woman. If I was that woman then great I'd go down to the beach every day and would wear the cutest bikini anyone has ever seen. But in order to kind of represent myself in the public eye, I've stopped going to the beach."
Source: www.showbizspy.com
The Canadian beauty -- who played a sexy castaway on hit show Lost -- has come to hate being seen as a bikini babe and the attention that comes with it -- she's had to give up her love of the sun, sea and surf.
Lilly explains, "I've had to change my whole life,
"For the last two years in Hawaii I won't be caught dead on the beach. I can't go because I'm tired of seeing myself in a bikini on the cover of a tabloid magazine and being that woman.
"I'm not that woman. If I was that woman then great I'd go down to the beach every day and would wear the cutest bikini anyone has ever seen. But in order to kind of represent myself in the public eye, I've stopped going to the beach."
Source: www.showbizspy.com
LOST - LILLY'S LOST AUDITION WAS A 'PSYCHOLOGICAL EXERCISE'
LOST star EVANGELINE LILLY stumbled into acting while she was "doing a psychological exercise" by going to auditions.
The 29-year-old simply wanted to challenge her fears of acting up in front of the harshest critics when she discovered she had a talent for the craft.
She explains, "I had no intention for it to connect to a job. So when I got a job, I had to sit down and go, 'Do I want to be an actor?'"
Lilly reveals the job she landed was her role as Kate Austen on Lost.
Before her acting took off, the pretty star dreamed of becoming a flight attendant.
She adds, "I wanted to see the world, and I didn't have money. I was living on tea and peanut butter... so I went and I did the flight attendant training."
But her high-flying dreams didn't last long: "I did the job for one month and I quit."
Source: www.contactmusic.com
The 29-year-old simply wanted to challenge her fears of acting up in front of the harshest critics when she discovered she had a talent for the craft.
She explains, "I had no intention for it to connect to a job. So when I got a job, I had to sit down and go, 'Do I want to be an actor?'"
Lilly reveals the job she landed was her role as Kate Austen on Lost.
Before her acting took off, the pretty star dreamed of becoming a flight attendant.
She adds, "I wanted to see the world, and I didn't have money. I was living on tea and peanut butter... so I went and I did the flight attendant training."
But her high-flying dreams didn't last long: "I did the job for one month and I quit."
Source: www.contactmusic.com
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Lost Gives Michelle Rodriguez Another Shot
ook who has found herself back on Lost. Michelle Rodriguez, who famously and hastily was written off of the ABC serial not long after she was pinched in Hawaii on DUI charges, will resurface in the new season's second episode, sources confirm for TVGuide.com.
Lest you truly believe in the unbelievable, though, it should be noted that M-Rod's Ana Lucia will appear only in the one episode, possibly as part of a Hurley-centric flashback (as EW's Ausiello speculates).
Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros (who played Libby to her Ana Lucia) were arrested in Oahu on Dec. 1, 2006, on suspicion of driving their respective cars under the influence of alcohol in Oahu. Though both of their Lost characters were dispatched later in the TV season, show producers maintained that Ana Lucia was always a short-term role.
Watros' Libby cameo'd this past season, as an apparition to Michael. -- Matt Mitovich
Source: kren.com
Lest you truly believe in the unbelievable, though, it should be noted that M-Rod's Ana Lucia will appear only in the one episode, possibly as part of a Hurley-centric flashback (as EW's Ausiello speculates).
Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros (who played Libby to her Ana Lucia) were arrested in Oahu on Dec. 1, 2006, on suspicion of driving their respective cars under the influence of alcohol in Oahu. Though both of their Lost characters were dispatched later in the TV season, show producers maintained that Ana Lucia was always a short-term role.
Watros' Libby cameo'd this past season, as an apparition to Michael. -- Matt Mitovich
Source: kren.com
Monday, August 25, 2008
Lost: Where Does Desmond Fit In? (Spoiler-ish)
As season 5 of Lost approaches (who am I kidding, we're still months away from the season 5 premiere), there are questions to be pondered. Because TV is a business, and actors sign contracts, not everything about Lost can be kept a secret. We know, for a fact now, that Henry Ian Cusick will return for season 5 as Desmond Hume. The last time we saw Desmond he was reunited (finally!) with his true love Penelope Widmore. The way season 4 ended makes the return of Desmond a mystery. There is no easy return for the man, no slam dunk opening. Where, then, will he fit in? At this point, we can only guess.
This topic may appear to be a tad bit random, considering how many moons we are from our next new Lost episode. However, the impetus for the discussion came from TV Guide, who have just released a tiny spoiler. According to Matt Mittovich, a source from the Lost set is saying that Cusick is indeed a cast member on season 5. There is an important distinction between a recurring guest spot and a regular role. If Cusick is indeed in the credits as a regular character, that means Desmond will likely be brought back into the fold sooner rather than later. This could possibly give us some insight into how the season 5 story will go.
Since all one can do is speculate, I'm going to go to town: Desmond will help the Oceanic 6 return to the island. It doesn't make a lot of sense for Desmond to show up in the island's story line, back with Sawyer and Locke and Juliet. I'm guessing that he will be brought back into the fold by Jack and Locke, possibly with some help from Sayid. Desmond and Penny probably retired to somewhere in Europe, which is where Sayid has been executing people for Ben.
Now, why would Desmond help the Oceanic 6, especially given Ben's possible desire to kill Penny? I can't answer that, but Ben, being the genius that he is, could find a way. As far as I know, Ben hasn't told anyone about his intentions for Penny. Perhaps he can kill two birds with one stone, maybe kidnapping Penny and leveraging that into forcing Desmond to captain the Oceanic 6's trip back to the island.
However Desmond returns, I imagine it won't be on happy terms. There's no way he leaves the mainland and Penny if things remain peachy keen in his life. Penny will have to disappear, or he'll have to be given some sort of ugly ultimatum. No matter how Desmond returns to the Lost story, it will almost certainly involve Penny, Charles Widmore and Ben.
What do you think? How will Desmond return to Lost?
Source: buddytv.com
This topic may appear to be a tad bit random, considering how many moons we are from our next new Lost episode. However, the impetus for the discussion came from TV Guide, who have just released a tiny spoiler. According to Matt Mittovich, a source from the Lost set is saying that Cusick is indeed a cast member on season 5. There is an important distinction between a recurring guest spot and a regular role. If Cusick is indeed in the credits as a regular character, that means Desmond will likely be brought back into the fold sooner rather than later. This could possibly give us some insight into how the season 5 story will go.
Since all one can do is speculate, I'm going to go to town: Desmond will help the Oceanic 6 return to the island. It doesn't make a lot of sense for Desmond to show up in the island's story line, back with Sawyer and Locke and Juliet. I'm guessing that he will be brought back into the fold by Jack and Locke, possibly with some help from Sayid. Desmond and Penny probably retired to somewhere in Europe, which is where Sayid has been executing people for Ben.
Now, why would Desmond help the Oceanic 6, especially given Ben's possible desire to kill Penny? I can't answer that, but Ben, being the genius that he is, could find a way. As far as I know, Ben hasn't told anyone about his intentions for Penny. Perhaps he can kill two birds with one stone, maybe kidnapping Penny and leveraging that into forcing Desmond to captain the Oceanic 6's trip back to the island.
However Desmond returns, I imagine it won't be on happy terms. There's no way he leaves the mainland and Penny if things remain peachy keen in his life. Penny will have to disappear, or he'll have to be given some sort of ugly ultimatum. No matter how Desmond returns to the Lost story, it will almost certainly involve Penny, Charles Widmore and Ben.
What do you think? How will Desmond return to Lost?
Source: buddytv.com
Clues To Lost Season Five: Who's Back, Who's Dead And What Does It Mean?
Although season five of Lost is still a little over four months away, the online speculation and clue-wrangling has already started. The latest piece of evidence: an interview with Francoise Chau, who plays the notorious one armed man, Dr. Candle. We decided to round up all the theories and leaked messages over the last few weeks, and combine them to try and make sense of the show's penultimate season. Spoilers ahead.
First and Foremost, What's The Status Of All The Characters:
On The Disappeared Island:
Juliet, Charlotte, Locke, Miles and Sawyer
Off The Island:
Walt, Ben, Jack, Kate, Sayid, Desmond, Hurley and Sun
Don't Know If They Are Alive Or Dead:
Locke (as well, because he's dead in the future), Claire, Michael, Daniel and Jin
There Will Be No More Flash Forwards and Flash Backs
At Comic Con and in many other interviews both Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have stated that there won't be any flash forwards or flashbacks. Instead, there'll be an unspecified new format, reminiscent of the episode "Ji Yeon." This season will tie all the strings together.
Updated:
Sorry the Charlie info was a bad tip on my part, I got that mis-information in a jumbled rumor. The correct spoiler rumor is from Dark UFO (many apologies in the world of spoilers some times rumors run wild). This is still unverified rumor but it was Daniel Dae Kim spotted on the island of Hawaii NOT Charlie.
Jin May Be Back:
As opposed to the false tip I followed it looks like Jin has been allegedly spotted on the island of Hawaii NOT Charlie. Daniel Dae Kim was spied by Dark UFO spies and they believe that he's filming and will be in many important moments in the future season. Sorry about the confusion.
Which Carlton Cuse Confirms to IF Magazine:
“The people that are off the island, the island seems to be drawing them back and Ben [Michael Emerson] makes it clear they need to go back to the island,” says Cuse. “So hopefully that’s a lot of what you’ll see of in Season 5 — the journey of how those six return to the island.”
Dr. Candle, Tells Us Nothing But Gives Us Hope For Some Answers:
In an interview with lostspoilers.org, Francois Chau, the famous Dr. Candle from all of the Dharma how-to videos, explains that he knows a bunch, but isn't saying anything. He knows who the crying baby is in the video shown at Comic-Con, for instance. But he does give us hope of further time travel and island moving explanations. Chau explains that we've only seen little bits of the many Orchid videos he filmed, and we should be learning a lot more. Also some of the orientation flicks will have other Losties cameoing. (I assume old Dharma friends.)
Welcome Newbies:
More bad characters mean more meddling and evil-doing. Huzzah! We are desperate for a new batch of baddies. Truth be told, I growing tired of the slow-burn of storylines about Jack's dad. I welcome Ilanna and Caesar. They both sound dangerous and well equipped at killing characters off. But my guess is, they'll probably turn out to be good guys, since this information was leaked so early. Also these two new characters (as well as the free-for-all final episode) seems to throw off the theory that there needs to be a certain number of people on the island, or bad things happen. Or maybe that's why Locke ends up dead: because the Oceanic Six left.
Will This Be The Year Jack Grows A Pair?:
The name of the first episode of season five has been revealed as "Because You Left." Which makes me crazy happy, because maybe for the first time Jack will sack up and get some self awareness and cojones. Sure, can be the take-charge leader guy, but usually his decisions are clouded with insecurity and arrogance. He's got to learn to sit and think, and then take the big step. I hope that calling out Jack hard core, and blaming him for everything that went wrong, will knock some sense into him. That doesn't mean I think the various messes are all his fault, but I don't mind him getting blamed for it all. It may just shake him the right way.
What's With All The Bad Apples On That Boat?:
The one thing I'm most excited about are both producers promised that they would be further explaining the role of everyone on the freighter. I'm dying to know more about Miles and the crazy Hawaiian shirt pilot." Please give me more ghost hunters and lost parents of angry red-heads. But if they kill off Daniel, I'll quit you, Lost.
Source: io9.com
First and Foremost, What's The Status Of All The Characters:
On The Disappeared Island:
Juliet, Charlotte, Locke, Miles and Sawyer
Off The Island:
Walt, Ben, Jack, Kate, Sayid, Desmond, Hurley and Sun
Don't Know If They Are Alive Or Dead:
Locke (as well, because he's dead in the future), Claire, Michael, Daniel and Jin
There Will Be No More Flash Forwards and Flash Backs
At Comic Con and in many other interviews both Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have stated that there won't be any flash forwards or flashbacks. Instead, there'll be an unspecified new format, reminiscent of the episode "Ji Yeon." This season will tie all the strings together.
Updated:
Sorry the Charlie info was a bad tip on my part, I got that mis-information in a jumbled rumor. The correct spoiler rumor is from Dark UFO (many apologies in the world of spoilers some times rumors run wild). This is still unverified rumor but it was Daniel Dae Kim spotted on the island of Hawaii NOT Charlie.
Jin May Be Back:
As opposed to the false tip I followed it looks like Jin has been allegedly spotted on the island of Hawaii NOT Charlie. Daniel Dae Kim was spied by Dark UFO spies and they believe that he's filming and will be in many important moments in the future season. Sorry about the confusion.
Which Carlton Cuse Confirms to IF Magazine:
“The people that are off the island, the island seems to be drawing them back and Ben [Michael Emerson] makes it clear they need to go back to the island,” says Cuse. “So hopefully that’s a lot of what you’ll see of in Season 5 — the journey of how those six return to the island.”
Dr. Candle, Tells Us Nothing But Gives Us Hope For Some Answers:
In an interview with lostspoilers.org, Francois Chau, the famous Dr. Candle from all of the Dharma how-to videos, explains that he knows a bunch, but isn't saying anything. He knows who the crying baby is in the video shown at Comic-Con, for instance. But he does give us hope of further time travel and island moving explanations. Chau explains that we've only seen little bits of the many Orchid videos he filmed, and we should be learning a lot more. Also some of the orientation flicks will have other Losties cameoing. (I assume old Dharma friends.)
Welcome Newbies:
More bad characters mean more meddling and evil-doing. Huzzah! We are desperate for a new batch of baddies. Truth be told, I growing tired of the slow-burn of storylines about Jack's dad. I welcome Ilanna and Caesar. They both sound dangerous and well equipped at killing characters off. But my guess is, they'll probably turn out to be good guys, since this information was leaked so early. Also these two new characters (as well as the free-for-all final episode) seems to throw off the theory that there needs to be a certain number of people on the island, or bad things happen. Or maybe that's why Locke ends up dead: because the Oceanic Six left.
Will This Be The Year Jack Grows A Pair?:
The name of the first episode of season five has been revealed as "Because You Left." Which makes me crazy happy, because maybe for the first time Jack will sack up and get some self awareness and cojones. Sure, can be the take-charge leader guy, but usually his decisions are clouded with insecurity and arrogance. He's got to learn to sit and think, and then take the big step. I hope that calling out Jack hard core, and blaming him for everything that went wrong, will knock some sense into him. That doesn't mean I think the various messes are all his fault, but I don't mind him getting blamed for it all. It may just shake him the right way.
What's With All The Bad Apples On That Boat?:
The one thing I'm most excited about are both producers promised that they would be further explaining the role of everyone on the freighter. I'm dying to know more about Miles and the crazy Hawaiian shirt pilot." Please give me more ghost hunters and lost parents of angry red-heads. But if they kill off Daniel, I'll quit you, Lost.
Source: io9.com
Josh Holloway Gets Some Tail
Sawyer would definitely have something snide to say about this.
Lost star Josh Holloway has been spending his summer off the Island shooting the movie Stay Cool in L.A. with Winona Ryder and Hilary Duff.
Yes, we think the tats, albeit fake, are pretty cool. But this 'do! WTF? It's as if Tommy Lee hooked up with Pebbles Flintstone and this is what popped out. Yeah, we know it's probably for the flick, but still.
So what do you all think about Holloway's hair? Is it the start of a new trend...or simply a lost cause?
Source: uk.eonline.com
Lost star Josh Holloway has been spending his summer off the Island shooting the movie Stay Cool in L.A. with Winona Ryder and Hilary Duff.
Yes, we think the tats, albeit fake, are pretty cool. But this 'do! WTF? It's as if Tommy Lee hooked up with Pebbles Flintstone and this is what popped out. Yeah, we know it's probably for the flick, but still.
So what do you all think about Holloway's hair? Is it the start of a new trend...or simply a lost cause?
Source: uk.eonline.com
It Isn't A Coincidence That Sawyer Stars With A Hobbit
Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - When we last saw actor Josh Holloway, who plays the wise-cracking, name-calling Sawyer on ABC's "Lost," he was swimming ashore onto the island after jumping out of a helicopter to help save his friends. Never mind that when he jumped out of the helicopter he had on a shirt and then when he swam ashore he was shirtless - just consider it a perk of watching "Lost."
Celebrity News Service has it on good authority the Sawyer will spend the first two episodes of "Lost's" fifth season without his shirt. Once again, consider that a benefit if you are addicted to the show.
Holloway reported that he spent his hiatus from the tropical island filming a movie called "Stay Cool." In the flick, he plays a tattoo artist named Wino and said it was a great change from playing Sawyer. The film also stars Winona Ryder, Jon Cryer, Sean Astin and Hilary Duff.
CNS was excited to hear that Holloway appeared in the movie with Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in the movie "The Lord of the Rings." Our own Dominic Monaghan (yes, that would be "Lost's Charlie Pace) played Merry In "The Lord of the Rings" so a definite connection has been spotted.
And while that may seem like a coincidence to most people, "Lost" fans know there is no such thing as a coincidence on the island -- or even off of it. That's like saying it was a coincidence that Hurley won the lottery with the same numbers that appear on the island.
So to sum it up: Sawyer's shirt has disappeared, the island has disappeared, Charlie is dead but has re-appeared and then disappeared, and now Astin and Monaghan (both former Hobbits) have starred with Holloway. Are you Lost? Don't worry, the island will figure it out.
Source: allheadlinenews.com
Celebrity News Service has it on good authority the Sawyer will spend the first two episodes of "Lost's" fifth season without his shirt. Once again, consider that a benefit if you are addicted to the show.
Holloway reported that he spent his hiatus from the tropical island filming a movie called "Stay Cool." In the flick, he plays a tattoo artist named Wino and said it was a great change from playing Sawyer. The film also stars Winona Ryder, Jon Cryer, Sean Astin and Hilary Duff.
CNS was excited to hear that Holloway appeared in the movie with Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in the movie "The Lord of the Rings." Our own Dominic Monaghan (yes, that would be "Lost's Charlie Pace) played Merry In "The Lord of the Rings" so a definite connection has been spotted.
And while that may seem like a coincidence to most people, "Lost" fans know there is no such thing as a coincidence on the island -- or even off of it. That's like saying it was a coincidence that Hurley won the lottery with the same numbers that appear on the island.
So to sum it up: Sawyer's shirt has disappeared, the island has disappeared, Charlie is dead but has re-appeared and then disappeared, and now Astin and Monaghan (both former Hobbits) have starred with Holloway. Are you Lost? Don't worry, the island will figure it out.
Source: allheadlinenews.com
Fox Brokers Lucrative New 'Lost' Deal
Actor Matthew Fox has reached a new pay deal with TV bosses, taking his "Lost" salary to $225,000 per episode.
The star's wage negotiations were first highlighted earlier this week, when Fox and his co-star Evangeline Lilly were rumored to be seeking a $70,000 pay rise to keep them on the hit drama.
But Fox has now signed a lucrative new contract with ABC Studios executives, putting him in the same pay bracket as the main stars of another successful ABC series, "Desperate Housewives."
The rest of the "Lost" cast are still reportedly trying to broker new wage deals, but representatives for ABC Studios and Fox have refused to comment.
Source: sfgate.com
The star's wage negotiations were first highlighted earlier this week, when Fox and his co-star Evangeline Lilly were rumored to be seeking a $70,000 pay rise to keep them on the hit drama.
But Fox has now signed a lucrative new contract with ABC Studios executives, putting him in the same pay bracket as the main stars of another successful ABC series, "Desperate Housewives."
The rest of the "Lost" cast are still reportedly trying to broker new wage deals, but representatives for ABC Studios and Fox have refused to comment.
Source: sfgate.com
Friday, July 18, 2008
Success on ‘Lost’ brings bit of chaos
Michael Emerson's life remained relatively quiet after he earned an Emmy nomination last year for his enthralling interpretation of Benjamin Linus on "Lost." But Emerson's popularity is soaring after a stellar season and yet another best supporting actor nomination yesterday.
"Last year there wasn't any hubbub about it; there was no media," he said from New York. "This year it was a three-ring circus at my house. At one point this morning I had two competing television crews in my humble living room. TV Guide was packing up and 'Access Hollywood' was setting up, and I had the Associated Press on the phone. And I had to be in a cab at noon if I was going to get to the airport safely. It was a bit zany."
Source: starbulletin.com
"Last year there wasn't any hubbub about it; there was no media," he said from New York. "This year it was a three-ring circus at my house. At one point this morning I had two competing television crews in my humble living room. TV Guide was packing up and 'Access Hollywood' was setting up, and I had the Associated Press on the phone. And I had to be in a cab at noon if I was going to get to the airport safely. It was a bit zany."
Source: starbulletin.com
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Lost: How a Certain TV Mega-Hunk Stole My Identity
When you look like actor Josh Holloway (tall, blond, chiseled face, perfect biceps, and cut-up abs) and you’re considered to be the hot guy in the TV series Lost, life can be pretty sweet. But when you’re Josh Holloway (scrawny, brown, puffy hair, glasses)—also an actor—you’ve apparently got a lot of explaining to do. Holloway does just that with Lost: How a Certain TV Mega-Hunk Stole My Identity, a show in which he discusses the hardships of being him. Holloway did consider changing his name to Josh Joshoway, but then he’d lose out on all the perks: more auditions, reservations at fancy restaurants, and actually having dates (although it quickly turns into a “Who are you again?” situation). “I think there’s more than enough room in this world for the two of us to peacefully co-exist,” he says. “And I really hope, one day, he and I can go to coffee and talk about that.” DNA totally messed with the wrong man.
Source: www.villagevoice.com
Source: www.villagevoice.com
Lost's Holloway to play Ryder's ex
'Lost' star Josh Holloway has been cast opposite Winona Ryder, Chevy Chase, Hilary Duff, Sean Astin, Mark Polish and Jon Cryer in a new comedy called 'Stay Cool'.
The Hollywood Reporter says the film tells the story of a successful author (Polish) who has to face up to his unrequited high school love (Ryder) when he returns home to give a speech at a graduation ceremony.
Holloway will play a former high school jock and Ryder's ex-boyfriend.
The "knowing your age comedy" will begin shooting in California this month with Polish's twin brother Michael directing.
Source: www.rte.ie
The Hollywood Reporter says the film tells the story of a successful author (Polish) who has to face up to his unrequited high school love (Ryder) when he returns home to give a speech at a graduation ceremony.
Holloway will play a former high school jock and Ryder's ex-boyfriend.
The "knowing your age comedy" will begin shooting in California this month with Polish's twin brother Michael directing.
Source: www.rte.ie
Evangeline Lilly " I'm like a man - you know, 'I can do anything'
"The only reason I was going for auditions when I won the role of Kate in Lost was an exercise in self-exploration," she said. "But I'm like a man - you know, 'I can do anything.'
"At 14 I thought I might one day be an actress. But by 18 I wanted to be a missionary. Acting as a career was just a blip on the radar."
The 28-year-old also confessed that her Lost co-stars were unhappy that she had landed a role on the hit show with relatively little acting experience, Digital Spy reports
She explained: "They were furious. You could see it written all over their faces. They were thinking, 'I've done all this work to get to this place and here you are with nothing to draw on, standing at the same place as me.'"
Source: thebosh.com
"At 14 I thought I might one day be an actress. But by 18 I wanted to be a missionary. Acting as a career was just a blip on the radar."
The 28-year-old also confessed that her Lost co-stars were unhappy that she had landed a role on the hit show with relatively little acting experience, Digital Spy reports
She explained: "They were furious. You could see it written all over their faces. They were thinking, 'I've done all this work to get to this place and here you are with nothing to draw on, standing at the same place as me.'"
Source: thebosh.com
Evangeline Lilly's 'Lost' skin
Evangeline Lilly says starring in 'Lost' ruined her skin. The 29-year-old actress " who plays Kate Austen in the hit US TV show " admits she started surfing in the rough sea to cope with stress of filming, but the salty water soon took its toll on her complexion.
She said: "Last season of the show I surfed constantly, which was cathartic for me, but the sun and salt water wreaked havoc with my skin so, for the first time in my life, I had skin problems. I ended up wearing a full face of pink pure zinc to protect it. I looked ridiculous with this bright pink face but I just wanted to surf!"
Evangeline has also revealed the secret to her slim figure " indoor aerobics. She added to Britain's InStyle magazine: "I dance around my living room to cheesy 80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard! "I also walk a lot.
Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture."
Source: www.chinadaily.com.cn
She said: "Last season of the show I surfed constantly, which was cathartic for me, but the sun and salt water wreaked havoc with my skin so, for the first time in my life, I had skin problems. I ended up wearing a full face of pink pure zinc to protect it. I looked ridiculous with this bright pink face but I just wanted to surf!"
Evangeline has also revealed the secret to her slim figure " indoor aerobics. She added to Britain's InStyle magazine: "I dance around my living room to cheesy 80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard! "I also walk a lot.
Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture."
Source: www.chinadaily.com.cn
Lost's Fox May Play Reformed Assassin
Money talks in Hollywood.
By Sunday, Wanted, a movie adapted from a graphic novel about cold-blooded assassins, had raked in $51 million during its opening weekend. On Monday, Lost star Matthew Fox was talking to Warner Bros. about starring in Billy Smoke, a movie based on ... a graphic novel about cold-blooded assassins.
Fox is seriously considering the project, which is adapted from the Oni Press comic about a hit man who decides to rid the world of his own kind after he realizes the error of his ways, Variety reports.
It's easy to picture Fox, who played the brooding Racer X in Speed-Racer earlier this summer, grimacing his way through the role.
Written by B. Clay Moore and illustrated by Eric Kim, Billy Smoke will not be published until next year, but movie execs got a sneak peek and evidently envisioned Fox as the lead.
Source: blog.wired.com
By Sunday, Wanted, a movie adapted from a graphic novel about cold-blooded assassins, had raked in $51 million during its opening weekend. On Monday, Lost star Matthew Fox was talking to Warner Bros. about starring in Billy Smoke, a movie based on ... a graphic novel about cold-blooded assassins.
Fox is seriously considering the project, which is adapted from the Oni Press comic about a hit man who decides to rid the world of his own kind after he realizes the error of his ways, Variety reports.
It's easy to picture Fox, who played the brooding Racer X in Speed-Racer earlier this summer, grimacing his way through the role.
Written by B. Clay Moore and illustrated by Eric Kim, Billy Smoke will not be published until next year, but movie execs got a sneak peek and evidently envisioned Fox as the lead.
Source: blog.wired.com
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Lost Wins 4 Saturn Awards
ABC's “Lost” steered the island toward four trophies at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror’s 34th annual Saturn Awards.
Winning for network television series, actor Matthew Fox, supporting actor Michael Emerson and supporting actress Elizabeth Mitchell, “Lost” returned to form at the Saturn Awards after losing out in several categories to NBC’s “Heroes” and Showtime’s “Dexter” last year.
Winning for network television series, actor Matthew Fox, supporting actor Michael Emerson and supporting actress Elizabeth Mitchell, “Lost” returned to form at the Saturn Awards after losing out in several categories to NBC’s “Heroes” and Showtime’s “Dexter” last year.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
TV Guide interview with Lost's Libby
There was a quiet spell following her dramatic exit from Lost, but Cynthia Watros' workload has gone from 0 to 60 in recent months. Tonight at 10 pm/ET, she stars opposite Eric Roberts in the second installment of NBC's Fear Itself anthology series, and later this summer, she'll surface on TBS' The Bill Engvall Show. TVGuide.com invited Watros to preview her new gigs as well as ponder future spooky appearances by Lost's Libby.
TVGuide.com: You've been keeping busy lately!
Cynthia Watros: A little bit, yeah!
TVGuide.com: On the one hand, you're serving up some horror. On the other, you're doing comedy. Do you like striking that balance?
Watros: I like to juggle both ends. It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.
TVGuide.com: In Fear Itself's "Spooked," you play a woman who hires Eric Roberts' P.I. to snoop on a philandering husband. But these things are never that simple, are they?
Watros: [Laughs] No, they're not. By the end you're like, "What?!" You thought it was one thing, but then it's another. It's interesting how the story changes on you. I love playing characters that have secrets.
TVGuide.com: You really turn on the waterworks in Fear Itself. How do you manage that? Some trick from your Emmy-winning soap opera days...?
Watros: I wish there was a trick! I have to be honest, and I know it's going to sound corny, but whatever I'm going through as the character, it's never been difficult for me to immerse myself in that. Then the feelings come out naturally. I wish I had some trick — like thinking about a pet that has passed away — but no, it's just feeling the character.
TVGuide.com: How was Eric Roberts to work with? Do you, like I do, still have haunting memories of him in Star 80?
Watros: That's right! He's lovely. There's a difficult scene toward the end, where I spit on him, but he was a trouper. I said, "I think it'd be a good if we did something really dramatic, like having my character spit on you." He was for it.
TVGuide.com: You don't spit on Bill Engvall at all, do you?
Watros: Not on camera. [Laughs] He's so down to earth and real.... He made me feel completely at home. And Nancy Travis (Susan) is lovely — an authentic, beautiful person. I like her a lot.
TVGuide.com: You play Susan's carefree gal pal. Do you thus rub Bill the wrong way?
Watros: I do. I play this free spirit who travels the world and thinks the [Pearson] kids' education should come from traveling to exotic places instead of sitting in a school room.
TVGuide.com: Are you around for just a set number of episode?
Watros: I did three in a row, but I have a feeling she'll pop up now and again.
TVGuide.com: So you don't get killed off.
Watros: No. [Laughs] Not on this show!
TVGuide.com: As a Lost fan, I must say that I was expecting more from Libby's appearance in Michael's return episode.
Watros: Yeah, you never know what you're going to get into [with that show]. But it's always fun, whether it's a little bit or a lot.
TVGuide.com: Do you feel the producers have left the door open for you to return again?
Watros: I know I get a lot of people coming up to me asking, "What was Libby's deal? Why was she in a mental institution? What was her relationship with Hurley about?" I don't know if [the writers] want to answer those questions or not, but people want to know.
TVGuide.com: It seemed like they were steering Libby and Hurley toward a sweet little something. People would have liked seeing some love enter the big guy's life.
Watros: Yeah.... We all need love!
TVGuide.com: What do you miss about your Lost run?
Watros: You always miss the people you work with — the cast and crew. And living in Hawaii is of course an amazing and beautiful experience.
TVGuide.com: So maybe you will pop up again one day?
Watros: You never know. You never know!
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TVGuide.com: You've been keeping busy lately!
Cynthia Watros: A little bit, yeah!
TVGuide.com: On the one hand, you're serving up some horror. On the other, you're doing comedy. Do you like striking that balance?
Watros: I like to juggle both ends. It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.
TVGuide.com: In Fear Itself's "Spooked," you play a woman who hires Eric Roberts' P.I. to snoop on a philandering husband. But these things are never that simple, are they?
Watros: [Laughs] No, they're not. By the end you're like, "What?!" You thought it was one thing, but then it's another. It's interesting how the story changes on you. I love playing characters that have secrets.
TVGuide.com: You really turn on the waterworks in Fear Itself. How do you manage that? Some trick from your Emmy-winning soap opera days...?
Watros: I wish there was a trick! I have to be honest, and I know it's going to sound corny, but whatever I'm going through as the character, it's never been difficult for me to immerse myself in that. Then the feelings come out naturally. I wish I had some trick — like thinking about a pet that has passed away — but no, it's just feeling the character.
TVGuide.com: How was Eric Roberts to work with? Do you, like I do, still have haunting memories of him in Star 80?
Watros: That's right! He's lovely. There's a difficult scene toward the end, where I spit on him, but he was a trouper. I said, "I think it'd be a good if we did something really dramatic, like having my character spit on you." He was for it.
TVGuide.com: You don't spit on Bill Engvall at all, do you?
Watros: Not on camera. [Laughs] He's so down to earth and real.... He made me feel completely at home. And Nancy Travis (Susan) is lovely — an authentic, beautiful person. I like her a lot.
TVGuide.com: You play Susan's carefree gal pal. Do you thus rub Bill the wrong way?
Watros: I do. I play this free spirit who travels the world and thinks the [Pearson] kids' education should come from traveling to exotic places instead of sitting in a school room.
TVGuide.com: Are you around for just a set number of episode?
Watros: I did three in a row, but I have a feeling she'll pop up now and again.
TVGuide.com: So you don't get killed off.
Watros: No. [Laughs] Not on this show!
TVGuide.com: As a Lost fan, I must say that I was expecting more from Libby's appearance in Michael's return episode.
Watros: Yeah, you never know what you're going to get into [with that show]. But it's always fun, whether it's a little bit or a lot.
TVGuide.com: Do you feel the producers have left the door open for you to return again?
Watros: I know I get a lot of people coming up to me asking, "What was Libby's deal? Why was she in a mental institution? What was her relationship with Hurley about?" I don't know if [the writers] want to answer those questions or not, but people want to know.
TVGuide.com: It seemed like they were steering Libby and Hurley toward a sweet little something. People would have liked seeing some love enter the big guy's life.
Watros: Yeah.... We all need love!
TVGuide.com: What do you miss about your Lost run?
Watros: You always miss the people you work with — the cast and crew. And living in Hawaii is of course an amazing and beautiful experience.
TVGuide.com: So maybe you will pop up again one day?
Watros: You never know. You never know!
Source: DarkUFO
Cynthia Watros
Libby is back! And she's not in Santa Rosa Mental Hospital this time, but rather on NBC's new anthology series Fear, Itself.
I sat down with the lovely Cynthia Watros (Lost's dearly departed Libby) to discuss her special episode, which airs tonight. (Set your TiVo!) I've seen it, and can tell you that Cynthia gives a stunningly freaktastic performance as a woman who hires a private detective (Eric Roberts) to investigate her husband's wandering eye...But it all turns out to be so much more.
In Monday's Watch With Kristin Show, I'll share with you Cynthia's take on the latest happenings on Lost and whether she'll return, but for now, click in for some Fear-ful chatter...
For those who haven't yet checked it out, what is Fear, Itself?
It's a 13-show anthology series on NBC. My episode is directed by Brad Anderson, and Eric Roberts is in this episode. This episode is about what these people are about at the beginning and then, as the show progresses, you realize they're not exactly what they seem to be. And there is an interesting relationship with the house.
The title is interesting.
Yes, the fear surrounds all of these episodes. It is about what people have inside them that can ultimately come out, if they're insecure or if they're put in a position where they're tested. And this episode is definitely one of those cases.
What made you want to do it? Were you a fan of anthology series? Did you watch The Twilight Zone? Or do you just like freaking people out?
It's really interesting as an actor to play someone who's really mysterious and you don't quite know what's up with this person until the end. It's definitely fun to play more psychotic, people who are not at all like you, and you feel like you're really acting, you're really putting yourself out there.
And I did grow up a big sci-fi person, and I watched Star Trek and all those things. I tend to gravitate toward that genre.
What was it like doing those scenes with Eric Roberts? They're fairly intense.
They are! It was the first time that I had met Eric, and he was lovely—wonderful actor. So it's hard to say, "Hey, Eric, I'm Cynthia, and I'll be spitting on you in this scene. I hope that's OK." But he is a trouper, a true actor, and I promised that I wouldn't do anything too embarrassing to him. So he was great. It's lovely to work with someone who's free and open and willing to do whatever the partner wants to do.
What was the casting like?
It first starts with reading the script and if you feel sort of connected to the script then you agree to go into the audition, and after you audition if they feel like you're right for the part, they tell you what's going on with the show itself. I was really attracted to the caliber of the directors and actors they had for this series and working with Eric, and I've wanted to work with him for some time, so I felt really lucky.
Source: DarkUFO
I sat down with the lovely Cynthia Watros (Lost's dearly departed Libby) to discuss her special episode, which airs tonight. (Set your TiVo!) I've seen it, and can tell you that Cynthia gives a stunningly freaktastic performance as a woman who hires a private detective (Eric Roberts) to investigate her husband's wandering eye...But it all turns out to be so much more.
In Monday's Watch With Kristin Show, I'll share with you Cynthia's take on the latest happenings on Lost and whether she'll return, but for now, click in for some Fear-ful chatter...
For those who haven't yet checked it out, what is Fear, Itself?
It's a 13-show anthology series on NBC. My episode is directed by Brad Anderson, and Eric Roberts is in this episode. This episode is about what these people are about at the beginning and then, as the show progresses, you realize they're not exactly what they seem to be. And there is an interesting relationship with the house.
The title is interesting.
Yes, the fear surrounds all of these episodes. It is about what people have inside them that can ultimately come out, if they're insecure or if they're put in a position where they're tested. And this episode is definitely one of those cases.
What made you want to do it? Were you a fan of anthology series? Did you watch The Twilight Zone? Or do you just like freaking people out?
It's really interesting as an actor to play someone who's really mysterious and you don't quite know what's up with this person until the end. It's definitely fun to play more psychotic, people who are not at all like you, and you feel like you're really acting, you're really putting yourself out there.
And I did grow up a big sci-fi person, and I watched Star Trek and all those things. I tend to gravitate toward that genre.
What was it like doing those scenes with Eric Roberts? They're fairly intense.
They are! It was the first time that I had met Eric, and he was lovely—wonderful actor. So it's hard to say, "Hey, Eric, I'm Cynthia, and I'll be spitting on you in this scene. I hope that's OK." But he is a trouper, a true actor, and I promised that I wouldn't do anything too embarrassing to him. So he was great. It's lovely to work with someone who's free and open and willing to do whatever the partner wants to do.
What was the casting like?
It first starts with reading the script and if you feel sort of connected to the script then you agree to go into the audition, and after you audition if they feel like you're right for the part, they tell you what's going on with the show itself. I was really attracted to the caliber of the directors and actors they had for this series and working with Eric, and I've wanted to work with him for some time, so I felt really lucky.
Source: DarkUFO
Losties on The big Screen
With the Lost season 4 finale come and gone, what's a TV fan to do during the long summer and fall months while waiting for Lost's return in 2009? Why, head to a cool air-conditioned theater and watch the Lost cast take on big movie roles, of course.
Already this summer Jack (Matthew Fox) ditched the beach and took a break from fretting over the island's insistence that he return so that he could play Racer X in Speed Racer. Before that he could be seen in the twisty turvy thriller, Vantage Point. But Lost's grizzled doctor isn't only one who is taking the leap from small screen to big.
Though Claire is currently kicking it in Jacob's cabin, actress Emilie de Ravin has been busy on film sets. Coming up for her this August is a role in The Perfect Game, a film set in 1957 that tells the true story of a rag-tag group of kids from Monterrey, Mexico who shock the world by playing a string of perfect little league baseball games, the only perfect game ever pitched in the Championship. Emilie de Ravin will be playing a character named Frankie, though the extent of her role is not currently well known.
Kate (Evangeline Lilly) meanwhile will be seen in the film Afterwards. Romain Duris stars as a New York lawyer who divorces his longtime love and is then granted the ability to know when people are going to die. As to how Evangeline Lilly's character will be involved in the film we don't yet know, but we do know the film will also feature John Malkovich as a doctor / mysterious mystical messenger, and who doesn't want to see that?
Sayid will take a break from assassinating Ben's foes when Naveen Andrews takes on a new role in the film Animals. Starring alongside Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Marc Blucas, Naveen Andrews will play an animalistic man who is part of a subculture that Blucas's character is drawn into by the alluring Nicki Aycox (Supernatural). Touted as a humorous, sexy thriller, this flick will be one to watch out for later this year.
Coming in July is Felon, featuring a very much not exploded Michael (Harold Perrineau). Also starring Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff, Felon is a drama about a man convicted of killing an intruder who must cope with life in the violent penal system.
Benjamin Linus's off-island world tour continues when Michael Emerson takes on a role in Ready? OK! A comedy about a single mom trying to deal with her son's feminine interests, this film seems destined to fit in the Little Miss Sunshine mold. Expect a lighter Michael Emerson here than the captivating creep he plays on Lost.
Former Lost actors are also keeping busy. Lost's Boone (Ian Somerhalder) will soon be making appearances in The Lost Samaritan, about a man who is targeted by assassins after he stops to help someone in need, and The Tournament, about a group of assassins drawn together in a giant battle royale. Meanwhile his TV sister Maggie Grace will play former spy Liam Neeson's kidnaped daughter in Taken.
With these movies and more on the way next year as the talented Lost cast takes on new roles, we'll all have plenty to watch to keep us distracted during the long wait before Lost season 5 begins airing in 2009. At least, that's what we here at BuddyTV keep trying to tell ourselves.
Source: BuddyTV
Already this summer Jack (Matthew Fox) ditched the beach and took a break from fretting over the island's insistence that he return so that he could play Racer X in Speed Racer. Before that he could be seen in the twisty turvy thriller, Vantage Point. But Lost's grizzled doctor isn't only one who is taking the leap from small screen to big.
Though Claire is currently kicking it in Jacob's cabin, actress Emilie de Ravin has been busy on film sets. Coming up for her this August is a role in The Perfect Game, a film set in 1957 that tells the true story of a rag-tag group of kids from Monterrey, Mexico who shock the world by playing a string of perfect little league baseball games, the only perfect game ever pitched in the Championship. Emilie de Ravin will be playing a character named Frankie, though the extent of her role is not currently well known.
Kate (Evangeline Lilly) meanwhile will be seen in the film Afterwards. Romain Duris stars as a New York lawyer who divorces his longtime love and is then granted the ability to know when people are going to die. As to how Evangeline Lilly's character will be involved in the film we don't yet know, but we do know the film will also feature John Malkovich as a doctor / mysterious mystical messenger, and who doesn't want to see that?
Sayid will take a break from assassinating Ben's foes when Naveen Andrews takes on a new role in the film Animals. Starring alongside Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Marc Blucas, Naveen Andrews will play an animalistic man who is part of a subculture that Blucas's character is drawn into by the alluring Nicki Aycox (Supernatural). Touted as a humorous, sexy thriller, this flick will be one to watch out for later this year.
Coming in July is Felon, featuring a very much not exploded Michael (Harold Perrineau). Also starring Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff, Felon is a drama about a man convicted of killing an intruder who must cope with life in the violent penal system.
Benjamin Linus's off-island world tour continues when Michael Emerson takes on a role in Ready? OK! A comedy about a single mom trying to deal with her son's feminine interests, this film seems destined to fit in the Little Miss Sunshine mold. Expect a lighter Michael Emerson here than the captivating creep he plays on Lost.
Former Lost actors are also keeping busy. Lost's Boone (Ian Somerhalder) will soon be making appearances in The Lost Samaritan, about a man who is targeted by assassins after he stops to help someone in need, and The Tournament, about a group of assassins drawn together in a giant battle royale. Meanwhile his TV sister Maggie Grace will play former spy Liam Neeson's kidnaped daughter in Taken.
With these movies and more on the way next year as the talented Lost cast takes on new roles, we'll all have plenty to watch to keep us distracted during the long wait before Lost season 5 begins airing in 2009. At least, that's what we here at BuddyTV keep trying to tell ourselves.
Source: BuddyTV
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Jorge Garcia talks LOST
s Hurley really unbalanced, or is the Island messing with him?
Unbalanced? I don't know. I have no idea what exactly is going with the "I see dead people" stuff. There's so much in playing that Hurley, and the craziness is the trickiest part. I've gone to directors and asked, "How is it that I get to the point to where I decide that blowing up the food is the best possible way to resolve this issue?" And all they can really say to me is, "Well, you've been in a mental institution." "Great, that helps a lot." But I just decide to believe that if [Hurley] feels that this is how this has to go, this is how it goes for him and just commit to it."
How long do you think it will take the Oceanic Six to get back to the Island?
I think that's what a lot of season five is going to be about, and hopefully we can do it in a season.
What will it take to convince Hurley to go back to the Island?
I don't know yet. There's this thing where Sayid comes to get Hurley [from Santa Rosa], and I'm curious what type of buddy adventures they might be going on.
Do you have a theory about how the show is going to end?
I feel like there's going to be a fight for the Island. There are at least two competing powers who can lay claim to that Island, and I feel like there is going to be some kind of fight for it at the end.
Have you been subject to the normal Hollywood pressure to lose weight, or have they said they like you the way you are and that's your character?
It hasn't come up. Well, it's come up with the audience apparently because that was a big question—why isn't Hurley losing weight? I was like, wow, with all the questions you're going to ask about the show, why are you focused on this? No one's asking why aren't the women getting hairy armpits?
How has the series changed your life?
There's nothing like it. When I got off the plane here, someone took my picture as I walked to baggage claim, as I got my luggage, as I walked out of the airport, as I got into the car, and even [as I was] in the car, he shot pictures through the window. That's a little much maybe. Every doorway I walk through? That's a little much. I get that they are filling a demand, and if the public didn't want that kind of stuff, there wouldn't be a business for it. That's just part of it.
Source: eonline.com
Unbalanced? I don't know. I have no idea what exactly is going with the "I see dead people" stuff. There's so much in playing that Hurley, and the craziness is the trickiest part. I've gone to directors and asked, "How is it that I get to the point to where I decide that blowing up the food is the best possible way to resolve this issue?" And all they can really say to me is, "Well, you've been in a mental institution." "Great, that helps a lot." But I just decide to believe that if [Hurley] feels that this is how this has to go, this is how it goes for him and just commit to it."
How long do you think it will take the Oceanic Six to get back to the Island?
I think that's what a lot of season five is going to be about, and hopefully we can do it in a season.
What will it take to convince Hurley to go back to the Island?
I don't know yet. There's this thing where Sayid comes to get Hurley [from Santa Rosa], and I'm curious what type of buddy adventures they might be going on.
Do you have a theory about how the show is going to end?
I feel like there's going to be a fight for the Island. There are at least two competing powers who can lay claim to that Island, and I feel like there is going to be some kind of fight for it at the end.
Have you been subject to the normal Hollywood pressure to lose weight, or have they said they like you the way you are and that's your character?
It hasn't come up. Well, it's come up with the audience apparently because that was a big question—why isn't Hurley losing weight? I was like, wow, with all the questions you're going to ask about the show, why are you focused on this? No one's asking why aren't the women getting hairy armpits?
How has the series changed your life?
There's nothing like it. When I got off the plane here, someone took my picture as I walked to baggage claim, as I got my luggage, as I walked out of the airport, as I got into the car, and even [as I was] in the car, he shot pictures through the window. That's a little much maybe. Every doorway I walk through? That's a little much. I get that they are filling a demand, and if the public didn't want that kind of stuff, there wouldn't be a business for it. That's just part of it.
Source: eonline.com
Interview with Naveen Andrews!
As you may know, Naveen has been fairly elusive with the press in recent years; however, the man we know and love (and drool over) as Lost's Sayid Jarrah graciously took some time at the Monte Carlo TV Fest to chat about that itty-bitty island on which he’s been kicking ass for four seasons strong.
Keep reading to get the goods!
What do you think of the fact that the show has an end date?
Relief, really. I think it was the only way to keep the quality up—the quality we had from the first season—and hopefully that's been borne out by the fourth season.
What theory do you have about how the show will end?
I just hope that whatever it is, all these things that they've thrown out—all these nuggets from the polar bear to infinity—that they put it together into some cohesive whole that makes sense and is satisfying for the audience.
Where do you go in two years when the series ends?
Wherever the good work is, whether it's film or TV. Wherever the good writing is.
Sayid showed off some pretty insane fight moves in the season finale, while battling Keamy. Has he always had those skills or has he been practicing?
I presume he was always able to, coming from the military and being in the Republican Guard, which I believe was an elite force.
How have you prepared for a character who seems quiet and peaceful on the surface but has a deep, dark side as a former torturer?
There's obviously a certain amount of academic research you can do with history—somebody from the military and their faith, the country they're from. But with TV, especially with a show of this nature, you have to be open and prepared for anything they might throw at you. It could mean a complete 180 in terms of what drives your character, and if you've prepared to the extent where it becomes rigid, it's not going to be useful, is it?
Which character would you like to have been if you weren't Sayid?
I always thought it would be Locke. I always liked that character, but I'm too...maybe I need to shave my head and just age a bit more.
Steve Jones, the former Sex Pistol, guided you to your first AA meeting. How did you get to know him?
I met him at a dinner party in L.A., and I was shocked to meet somebody who had been in that band who was not completely drugged out. I found that really intriguing, and it made me think, "If he's done it, then maybe I've got a chance."
Source: eonline.com
Keep reading to get the goods!
What do you think of the fact that the show has an end date?
Relief, really. I think it was the only way to keep the quality up—the quality we had from the first season—and hopefully that's been borne out by the fourth season.
What theory do you have about how the show will end?
I just hope that whatever it is, all these things that they've thrown out—all these nuggets from the polar bear to infinity—that they put it together into some cohesive whole that makes sense and is satisfying for the audience.
Where do you go in two years when the series ends?
Wherever the good work is, whether it's film or TV. Wherever the good writing is.
Sayid showed off some pretty insane fight moves in the season finale, while battling Keamy. Has he always had those skills or has he been practicing?
I presume he was always able to, coming from the military and being in the Republican Guard, which I believe was an elite force.
How have you prepared for a character who seems quiet and peaceful on the surface but has a deep, dark side as a former torturer?
There's obviously a certain amount of academic research you can do with history—somebody from the military and their faith, the country they're from. But with TV, especially with a show of this nature, you have to be open and prepared for anything they might throw at you. It could mean a complete 180 in terms of what drives your character, and if you've prepared to the extent where it becomes rigid, it's not going to be useful, is it?
Which character would you like to have been if you weren't Sayid?
I always thought it would be Locke. I always liked that character, but I'm too...maybe I need to shave my head and just age a bit more.
Steve Jones, the former Sex Pistol, guided you to your first AA meeting. How did you get to know him?
I met him at a dinner party in L.A., and I was shocked to meet somebody who had been in that band who was not completely drugged out. I found that really intriguing, and it made me think, "If he's done it, then maybe I've got a chance."
Source: eonline.com
"I only have to keep track of John Locke..."
During the Festival Großes Fernsehen, actor Terry O'Quinn came to Cologne in order to promote the German premiere of „Lost“'s fourth season on new premium cabler FOX Channel. Christian Junklewitz and Dominik Ahrens spoke with him for Serienjunkies. Right at the start of the interview, a very calm and kind O'Quinn cleared the rumour (spread, e.g., on wikipedia) that he has ever been a bodyguard: „If I was gonna start some kind of rumor, it would be one that I wouldn't have to back up...“
How do you keep up with everything that is going on on «Lost»? There are so many places on the island, so many time frames. How do you cope?
I only have to keep track of John Locke. I only have to know what he knows. In fact, the more difficult challenge is not paying attention to the things I am not supposed to know. John Locke doesn't have to keep track of everything, because he only knows what he knows.
But you have to keep track where on the time line all these things are supposed to happen to John Locke?
Yes, but in Locke's case, so far, he has only had the past and the present. As far as I know. Nobody has told me anything else. Both of those things are very clear to me and they are very clear to him. So, it's really not a challenge to me. It's more complicated for the fans of „Lost“.
How far in advance do you know what is going to happen to John? And I mean this more in terms of character development rather than plot development.
I don't know far at all. We are about to start shooting season five in the States, and I don't know how that begins. At the beginning of season four, we may have gotten the script two weeks before we began to shoot. By the end of the season, we got the script the day before we started to shoot. So, we don't know far in advance. The writers are very secretive, even with us. I would prefer they didn't tell me things I don't need to know because these are viewers' secrets I have to protect. I don't want them. It's not necessary.
So, the writers don't even tell you: We want to take John in this or that direction? You only get your screenplay, and that's it?
That's pretty much it. What I learned is this: Don't ask. Because they can't tell you. If I had a cast of twenty-some people I wouldn't tell any of them anything, ANYTHING.
There is a rumor that your colleague Matthew Fox is the only cast member who knows what the solution of the mystery in „Lost will be? Is that true?“
I have no idea. I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks he does. If he came and told me „I know what's gonna happen“, I would say „Ok, what?“, and then he would say „Well, I can't tell you“, and I'd say „Well, I don't believe you.“
(laughter)
Source: serienjunkies.de
How do you keep up with everything that is going on on «Lost»? There are so many places on the island, so many time frames. How do you cope?
I only have to keep track of John Locke. I only have to know what he knows. In fact, the more difficult challenge is not paying attention to the things I am not supposed to know. John Locke doesn't have to keep track of everything, because he only knows what he knows.
But you have to keep track where on the time line all these things are supposed to happen to John Locke?
Yes, but in Locke's case, so far, he has only had the past and the present. As far as I know. Nobody has told me anything else. Both of those things are very clear to me and they are very clear to him. So, it's really not a challenge to me. It's more complicated for the fans of „Lost“.
How far in advance do you know what is going to happen to John? And I mean this more in terms of character development rather than plot development.
I don't know far at all. We are about to start shooting season five in the States, and I don't know how that begins. At the beginning of season four, we may have gotten the script two weeks before we began to shoot. By the end of the season, we got the script the day before we started to shoot. So, we don't know far in advance. The writers are very secretive, even with us. I would prefer they didn't tell me things I don't need to know because these are viewers' secrets I have to protect. I don't want them. It's not necessary.
So, the writers don't even tell you: We want to take John in this or that direction? You only get your screenplay, and that's it?
That's pretty much it. What I learned is this: Don't ask. Because they can't tell you. If I had a cast of twenty-some people I wouldn't tell any of them anything, ANYTHING.
There is a rumor that your colleague Matthew Fox is the only cast member who knows what the solution of the mystery in „Lost will be? Is that true?“
I have no idea. I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks he does. If he came and told me „I know what's gonna happen“, I would say „Ok, what?“, and then he would say „Well, I can't tell you“, and I'd say „Well, I don't believe you.“
(laughter)
Source: serienjunkies.de
Armed Robber sent to prison!!
The armed robber who held Lost star Josh Holloway and his wife hostage at their home in Hawaii has been handed a prison sentence of up to 30 years.
Judge Karl Sakamoto said Ruben Royce, 23, had been responsible for "a tidal wave of crime".
Royce broke into the actor's home in October 2005, threatened him and his wife and stole their wallets and car.
He has also admitted carrying out three other robberies. Holloway, 38, plays castaway Sawyer in the hit US drama.
Royce pleaded guilty to multiple charges including kidnapping, first-degree robbery, burglary and car theft in February.
His defence lawyer claimed he did not know Holloway was a television star until after the robbery.
Source: BBC News
Judge Karl Sakamoto said Ruben Royce, 23, had been responsible for "a tidal wave of crime".
Royce broke into the actor's home in October 2005, threatened him and his wife and stole their wallets and car.
He has also admitted carrying out three other robberies. Holloway, 38, plays castaway Sawyer in the hit US drama.
Royce pleaded guilty to multiple charges including kidnapping, first-degree robbery, burglary and car theft in February.
His defence lawyer claimed he did not know Holloway was a television star until after the robbery.
Source: BBC News
Evi and Dom to MARRY?????
Evangeline Lilly and Dominic Monaghan are reportedly set to marry. The actors - who split briefly earlier this year - are said to be planning a quiet ceremony in Hawaii, as a tribute to 'Lost', the hit US TV show on which they met.
A source said: "Evangeline and Dominic have been spending a lot of time together during the show's hiatus and are very excited about the future. "Evangeline accepted Dom's proposal while they were away together and they both agree Hawaii is the perfect place for the wedding - both as a location and for sentimental reasons." However, the pair are in no rush to tie the knot, and are happy living as an engaged couple for the time being.
The source added: "The wedding might be next year or maybe the year after that. It's another 'Lost' mystery!" Evangeline stars as Kate Austen in the TV show, which follows a group of plane crash survivors as they attempt to find a way off a mysterious island. Dominic co-starred as Charlie Pace until he was killed off at the end of season three.
Source: chinadaily.com
A source said: "Evangeline and Dominic have been spending a lot of time together during the show's hiatus and are very excited about the future. "Evangeline accepted Dom's proposal while they were away together and they both agree Hawaii is the perfect place for the wedding - both as a location and for sentimental reasons." However, the pair are in no rush to tie the knot, and are happy living as an engaged couple for the time being.
The source added: "The wedding might be next year or maybe the year after that. It's another 'Lost' mystery!" Evangeline stars as Kate Austen in the TV show, which follows a group of plane crash survivors as they attempt to find a way off a mysterious island. Dominic co-starred as Charlie Pace until he was killed off at the end of season three.
Source: chinadaily.com
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Q & A With Naveen Andrews
"Who's going to read through your dreary blurb right to the end? No-one," wrote one rude treasured reader in response to the last post. "They want to get to the good stuff." Well, let's not keep anyone waiting any longer, shall we? Here's Naveen Andrews from Lost.
What did you make of the season finale?
"I was really pleased with it, because it's the closest we've come to season one in terms of the standard of excellence. They needed to get it back on track and they have."
You were quite critical of season three, weren't you?
"So was everyone else, as far as I know. I'm not alone in that. It's difficult not to feel proprietorial towards the work. When you feel a drop in quality, it would be dishonest to yourself if you didn't acknowledge that."
What do you think the problems were?
"The writing. We all know what the executive producers, Damon [Lindelof] and Carlton [Cuse], were going through because they had this burden of an endless show. I don't think it's what Damon wanted in the first place. He always used to say to me 'Wouldn't it be great if we were a bit like the Sex Pistols and did just one season of great television and then bang, that's it?' Sort of smash and grab. Obviously you can't do that on primetime network TV but he wanted a limit to the show. He managed to do a deal where he was able to achieve that. Now that we have an ending to aim towards, I think it's inevitable the quality will get better."
What would have been your ideal number of seasons?
"Ideally, five, for me. Five or six. Actually it does work out to five because we've got shorter seasons now."
What have you learned from doing Lost? You seem to have found it a bit of a burden...
"That's an interesting word we keep returning to. 'The burden of writing'..."
'The burden of Lost.'
"Come on, it's not a f**king burden. You're being paid, obviously - I don't ever remember being paid in England, even though the quality was there with things like The Buddha of Suburbia. I don't think it's a burden being paid, but it's a real discipline to play the same character over years rather than months or weeks. It requires a certain amount of stamina."
There are two seasons to go but each has fewer episodes. What does that mean for you, production-wise?
"It's a shame because we've been f**ked by the strike. We have an impending one and we had the one with the writers, which came right in the middle of the season and meant we had a few months off and had to go back to work. It f**ked up our hiatus. The whole thing was like 'oh, you just have to do six months in Hawaii instead of ten, then you can have the other six months to do films.' Well it didn't work out that way, did it? It looks like it won't work out again."
What did you make of the flash-forwards this season?
"I thought it was a bonus, for me personally. It's a challenge to be able to play a character in the present and then zoom ahead to a point when they may have undergone great changes. I felt in season four, Sayid was spiritually dead [in the future], and something awful happened to his soul. To be able to play that and then go back to the island, where he's still quite active in life, was good."
How much are you told about the character, doing these future scenes?
"Absolutely f**k all."
Then how do you prepa..
"Christ only knows. I was talking to Jorge [Garcia, Hurley] about that yesterday. I was saying 'I got my script a week and a half before we shot' and he said 'I got mine three days before we shot it'."
So you get no guidance on how Future Sayid is feeling?
"Absolutely not. I don't know if this is a good thing or not, but at this point, the writers feel they can trust us with whatever we're going to do with it."
As a viewer of the show, which I assume you are...
"No, I'm not. I only saw the pilot. But anyway, go ahead."
...which of the many twists do you want to find out the answer to?
"The foot with the f**king toe missing. What was that and is it going to come back? Is there going to be two feet next time, with a geezer on top as the rest of the body?"
What do you make of Harold Perrineau's comments last week suggesting that race played a part in his exit?
"I was very pleased to see Harold back and very disappointed that it didn't continue. But I can't comment until I've read what he said - or if I'm honest, until I've spoken to Harold and heard what he says he f**king said!"
When we last spoke you said you knew how the show would end, "geographically" speaking.
"Yeah, the island. I still presume it's going to be the island. I think season five's going to be Matthew [Fox, Jack] rounding up us lot to go back to the island, or whoever he can get to go back - maybe some people don't, because they can't be f**king bothered - and they go back and then there's this big kind of conflagration on the island. Will good triumph over evil? I don't know. It's just a rough idea."
So you know nothing solid about the future seasons, then?
"It's been like this from day one. They've never told us anything."
Do you want to know?
"At first, yeah. It's like your spiritual development. You're like three steps forward, five steps back. You'd think after four years you'd be used to being kept in the dark but every now and then you do get frustrated and think 'come on, for f**k's sake, tell us something!'"
Once Lost is done, would you do a network series again?
"To be honest with you, I think you've got to go where the good writing is, whether it's film or TV. There's a lot of crap films around at the moment. So to answer the question, wherever the good writing is."
Would you be open to the possibility of doing a spinoff of Lost?
"I can't believe they would do that. If they did it would be hilarious. Maybe it could be Locke... and Ben... and a baby! You know what I mean? Come on!"
So that's a 'no' then.
"I just don't think it'll ever happen. It's a preposterous question. If it happens then Damon should be shot!"
Lost returns in February 2009.
What did you make of the season finale?
"I was really pleased with it, because it's the closest we've come to season one in terms of the standard of excellence. They needed to get it back on track and they have."
You were quite critical of season three, weren't you?
"So was everyone else, as far as I know. I'm not alone in that. It's difficult not to feel proprietorial towards the work. When you feel a drop in quality, it would be dishonest to yourself if you didn't acknowledge that."
What do you think the problems were?
"The writing. We all know what the executive producers, Damon [Lindelof] and Carlton [Cuse], were going through because they had this burden of an endless show. I don't think it's what Damon wanted in the first place. He always used to say to me 'Wouldn't it be great if we were a bit like the Sex Pistols and did just one season of great television and then bang, that's it?' Sort of smash and grab. Obviously you can't do that on primetime network TV but he wanted a limit to the show. He managed to do a deal where he was able to achieve that. Now that we have an ending to aim towards, I think it's inevitable the quality will get better."
What would have been your ideal number of seasons?
"Ideally, five, for me. Five or six. Actually it does work out to five because we've got shorter seasons now."
What have you learned from doing Lost? You seem to have found it a bit of a burden...
"That's an interesting word we keep returning to. 'The burden of writing'..."
'The burden of Lost.'
"Come on, it's not a f**king burden. You're being paid, obviously - I don't ever remember being paid in England, even though the quality was there with things like The Buddha of Suburbia. I don't think it's a burden being paid, but it's a real discipline to play the same character over years rather than months or weeks. It requires a certain amount of stamina."
There are two seasons to go but each has fewer episodes. What does that mean for you, production-wise?
"It's a shame because we've been f**ked by the strike. We have an impending one and we had the one with the writers, which came right in the middle of the season and meant we had a few months off and had to go back to work. It f**ked up our hiatus. The whole thing was like 'oh, you just have to do six months in Hawaii instead of ten, then you can have the other six months to do films.' Well it didn't work out that way, did it? It looks like it won't work out again."
What did you make of the flash-forwards this season?
"I thought it was a bonus, for me personally. It's a challenge to be able to play a character in the present and then zoom ahead to a point when they may have undergone great changes. I felt in season four, Sayid was spiritually dead [in the future], and something awful happened to his soul. To be able to play that and then go back to the island, where he's still quite active in life, was good."
How much are you told about the character, doing these future scenes?
"Absolutely f**k all."
Then how do you prepa..
"Christ only knows. I was talking to Jorge [Garcia, Hurley] about that yesterday. I was saying 'I got my script a week and a half before we shot' and he said 'I got mine three days before we shot it'."
So you get no guidance on how Future Sayid is feeling?
"Absolutely not. I don't know if this is a good thing or not, but at this point, the writers feel they can trust us with whatever we're going to do with it."
As a viewer of the show, which I assume you are...
"No, I'm not. I only saw the pilot. But anyway, go ahead."
...which of the many twists do you want to find out the answer to?
"The foot with the f**king toe missing. What was that and is it going to come back? Is there going to be two feet next time, with a geezer on top as the rest of the body?"
What do you make of Harold Perrineau's comments last week suggesting that race played a part in his exit?
"I was very pleased to see Harold back and very disappointed that it didn't continue. But I can't comment until I've read what he said - or if I'm honest, until I've spoken to Harold and heard what he says he f**king said!"
When we last spoke you said you knew how the show would end, "geographically" speaking.
"Yeah, the island. I still presume it's going to be the island. I think season five's going to be Matthew [Fox, Jack] rounding up us lot to go back to the island, or whoever he can get to go back - maybe some people don't, because they can't be f**king bothered - and they go back and then there's this big kind of conflagration on the island. Will good triumph over evil? I don't know. It's just a rough idea."
So you know nothing solid about the future seasons, then?
"It's been like this from day one. They've never told us anything."
Do you want to know?
"At first, yeah. It's like your spiritual development. You're like three steps forward, five steps back. You'd think after four years you'd be used to being kept in the dark but every now and then you do get frustrated and think 'come on, for f**k's sake, tell us something!'"
Once Lost is done, would you do a network series again?
"To be honest with you, I think you've got to go where the good writing is, whether it's film or TV. There's a lot of crap films around at the moment. So to answer the question, wherever the good writing is."
Would you be open to the possibility of doing a spinoff of Lost?
"I can't believe they would do that. If they did it would be hilarious. Maybe it could be Locke... and Ben... and a baby! You know what I mean? Come on!"
So that's a 'no' then.
"I just don't think it'll ever happen. It's a preposterous question. If it happens then Damon should be shot!"
Lost returns in February 2009.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Harold Perrineau Dishes on his Lost Exit (Again)
Lost's breathtaking finale will no doubt have fans feverishly dissecting its innumerable puzzles until the show returns in early 2009. (Read our recap and weigh in with your thoughts!) Locke (aka Jeremy Bentham) is in the coffin?! What "very bad things" happened after the Oceanic 6 left the island?? How in Jacob's name is Ben gonna help all of them — plus Locke! — get back there??? And exactly where did the former Others ringleader and that wacky frozen device move the island to?
But at least one major character's fate was definitively sealed with the close of Season 4 when Michael (Harold Perrineau), the suicidal castaway — and father to "real big" mystery boy Walt — perished aboard the fiery freighter. "Michael had an incredibly heroic, noble death," says executive producer Damon Lindelof. "He sacrificed his own life to redeem himself for past mistakes and to help the Oceanic 6 get off the island." Sound familiar? It was this time last year that we were mourning the loss of the similarly selfless Charlie. Though Michael got a little something special that the ex-junkie rock star did not: a surprise send-off from Christian Shephard.
Shortly after he wrapped filming, an emotional Perrineau — who made a much-hyped return to the series in March after leaving in Season 2 — called to chat about his explosive second exit, the mad dash home to be with pregnant wife Brittany and why he feels the lack of a Michael-Walt reunion was "not cool."
TV Guide: Did you know Michael was being killed off when you returned?
Harold Perrineau: I had no idea. It's like, what the hell? I came back for that?
TV Guide: You're laughing as you say that, but you don't sound particularly pleased.
Perrineau: I'm disappointed, mostly because I wanted Michael and Walt to have a happy ending. I was hoping Michael would get it together and actually want to be a father to his kid and try to figure out a way to get back [home]. But this is [the producers'] story. If I were writing it, I would write it differently.
TV Guide:: So when did you get the news?
Perrineau: [Lindelof and fellow executive producer Carlton Cuse] called before the finale scripts were out. They said they weren't going to continue with Michael.
TV Guide:: And what did you say to that?
Perrineau: At this point, I've been on the island, off the island, back on the island — so I just went, "Oh, ok." [Laughs] This is their show and they know what they can or cannot write. I thought it was disappointing and a waste to come back, only to get beat up a few times and then killed. I felt like it was sort of pandering to some fans who wanted to see Michael punished because he betrayed people.
TV Guide: Are you referring to when he shot and killed Ana Lucia and Libby in Season 2?
Perrineau: Exactly. I honestly feel like Michael's death served a really weird bloodlust for the fans.
TV Guide: Were you disappointed Michael and Walt didn't reconnect before your character died?
Perrineau: Listen, if I'm being really candid, there are all these questions about how they respond to black people on the show. Sayid gets to meet Nadia again, and Desmond and Penny hook up again, but a little black boy and his father hooking up, that wasn't interesting? Instead, Walt just winds up being another fatherless child. It plays into a really big, weird stereotype and, being a black person myself, that wasn't so interesting. [Responds Cuse: "We pride ourselves on having a very racially diverse cast. It's painful when any actor's storyline ends on the show. Harold is a fantastic actor whose presence added enormously to Lost."]
TV Guide: Take me back to your last day of shooting.
Perrineau: My last day was kind of hectic. [Production] was trying to get me out because, at the time, my wife was a centimeter dilated.
TV Guide: Was she in labor at the hospital when you got back to L.A.?
Perrineau: No, I got home and then for another week, the baby would not come! We were like, "Seriously, dude, I was in Hawaii rushing like a madman!” I was talking to the baby, my wife was walking around, practically hiking, but the baby just would not come out! [Laughs] So we went to the hospital a week later and induced. A beautiful little girl came on May 7. Wynter Aria — I thought it was a nice name. It's poetic, and she's a little poetry in our life.
TV Guide: Let's talk highlights. Surely, you had some positive experiences on Lost.
Perrineau: Doing the job in Hawaii was cool. Getting to meet and work with [co-creator] JJ Abrams was very cool. The day we found out the show [premiered] so well [in 2004] was an amazing day. We were all so hopeful and excited. The first season was one of my best years as a working actor. Not to say there weren't tough times, but I loved the first season. And that one of my best friends, Dan [Dae Kim, who plays Jin], and I got to do pretty much the whole finale together.
TV Guide: Dead characters have a way of returning to the show. Would you be open to that?
Perrineau: I'd love to go back and work with people I really like working with, but I would have to know what was happening [story-wise] before I showed up again. Because this [last] storyline, I full-on feel, "No, that's not cool.'"
TV Guide: What's next for you?
Perrineau: This movie I did with Stephen Dorff called Felon is probably coming out at the end of the summer. And I'm in talks for a couple different films.
TV Guide: Any final thoughts?
Perrineau: Just that I hope the show continues to thrill people. I'm sorry to have to go, but I'll see you in another incarnation. I'll re-create myself because that's what I do. That part of leaving is pretty cool.
Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com
But at least one major character's fate was definitively sealed with the close of Season 4 when Michael (Harold Perrineau), the suicidal castaway — and father to "real big" mystery boy Walt — perished aboard the fiery freighter. "Michael had an incredibly heroic, noble death," says executive producer Damon Lindelof. "He sacrificed his own life to redeem himself for past mistakes and to help the Oceanic 6 get off the island." Sound familiar? It was this time last year that we were mourning the loss of the similarly selfless Charlie. Though Michael got a little something special that the ex-junkie rock star did not: a surprise send-off from Christian Shephard.
Shortly after he wrapped filming, an emotional Perrineau — who made a much-hyped return to the series in March after leaving in Season 2 — called to chat about his explosive second exit, the mad dash home to be with pregnant wife Brittany and why he feels the lack of a Michael-Walt reunion was "not cool."
TV Guide: Did you know Michael was being killed off when you returned?
Harold Perrineau: I had no idea. It's like, what the hell? I came back for that?
TV Guide: You're laughing as you say that, but you don't sound particularly pleased.
Perrineau: I'm disappointed, mostly because I wanted Michael and Walt to have a happy ending. I was hoping Michael would get it together and actually want to be a father to his kid and try to figure out a way to get back [home]. But this is [the producers'] story. If I were writing it, I would write it differently.
TV Guide:: So when did you get the news?
Perrineau: [Lindelof and fellow executive producer Carlton Cuse] called before the finale scripts were out. They said they weren't going to continue with Michael.
TV Guide:: And what did you say to that?
Perrineau: At this point, I've been on the island, off the island, back on the island — so I just went, "Oh, ok." [Laughs] This is their show and they know what they can or cannot write. I thought it was disappointing and a waste to come back, only to get beat up a few times and then killed. I felt like it was sort of pandering to some fans who wanted to see Michael punished because he betrayed people.
TV Guide: Are you referring to when he shot and killed Ana Lucia and Libby in Season 2?
Perrineau: Exactly. I honestly feel like Michael's death served a really weird bloodlust for the fans.
TV Guide: Were you disappointed Michael and Walt didn't reconnect before your character died?
Perrineau: Listen, if I'm being really candid, there are all these questions about how they respond to black people on the show. Sayid gets to meet Nadia again, and Desmond and Penny hook up again, but a little black boy and his father hooking up, that wasn't interesting? Instead, Walt just winds up being another fatherless child. It plays into a really big, weird stereotype and, being a black person myself, that wasn't so interesting. [Responds Cuse: "We pride ourselves on having a very racially diverse cast. It's painful when any actor's storyline ends on the show. Harold is a fantastic actor whose presence added enormously to Lost."]
TV Guide: Take me back to your last day of shooting.
Perrineau: My last day was kind of hectic. [Production] was trying to get me out because, at the time, my wife was a centimeter dilated.
TV Guide: Was she in labor at the hospital when you got back to L.A.?
Perrineau: No, I got home and then for another week, the baby would not come! We were like, "Seriously, dude, I was in Hawaii rushing like a madman!” I was talking to the baby, my wife was walking around, practically hiking, but the baby just would not come out! [Laughs] So we went to the hospital a week later and induced. A beautiful little girl came on May 7. Wynter Aria — I thought it was a nice name. It's poetic, and she's a little poetry in our life.
TV Guide: Let's talk highlights. Surely, you had some positive experiences on Lost.
Perrineau: Doing the job in Hawaii was cool. Getting to meet and work with [co-creator] JJ Abrams was very cool. The day we found out the show [premiered] so well [in 2004] was an amazing day. We were all so hopeful and excited. The first season was one of my best years as a working actor. Not to say there weren't tough times, but I loved the first season. And that one of my best friends, Dan [Dae Kim, who plays Jin], and I got to do pretty much the whole finale together.
TV Guide: Dead characters have a way of returning to the show. Would you be open to that?
Perrineau: I'd love to go back and work with people I really like working with, but I would have to know what was happening [story-wise] before I showed up again. Because this [last] storyline, I full-on feel, "No, that's not cool.'"
TV Guide: What's next for you?
Perrineau: This movie I did with Stephen Dorff called Felon is probably coming out at the end of the summer. And I'm in talks for a couple different films.
TV Guide: Any final thoughts?
Perrineau: Just that I hope the show continues to thrill people. I'm sorry to have to go, but I'll see you in another incarnation. I'll re-create myself because that's what I do. That part of leaving is pretty cool.
Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com
Ten Things You Never Knew About Josh Holloway
As conniving con artist James "Sawyer" Ford on Lost, avoiding The Others, wrestling with boars and scrapping over a girl is all in a day's work for Josh Holloway. And not before time - the actor was stranded in a wilderness of failed pilots and little-seen indie films for eight years before landing his big break at the age of 36. But is the island's hellraiser actually a bit of a softie in real life? As we buckle up for what promises to be a bloody fourth season finale on Sunday, we find out more about Lost's resident bad boy.
1. Josh and his four siblings grew up with their parents in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where they lived in a trailer equipped with "eight dogs, two horses, cats, a cow, and a chicken".
2. What did little Josh want to be when he grew up? Erm... everything. He says: "I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor..." We're sure a TV star wouldn't be too far down the list.
3. Josh's first job was shovelling chicken carcasses.
4. Josh worked as a male model before turning to acting and admits to taking part in some pretty odd photoshoots in his day. He recalls: "[I worked on] a pyjama campaign. The pyjamas had different animal prints and our hair was styled to look like the animal. I ended up with a cow print hairdo with little horns. It only appeared in Europe, luckily, so my friends didn’t see it."
5. Josh made his TV debut as 'Good Looking Guy' in Buffy spinoff Angel in 1999. Unfortunately his vampire character was dispatched by the hero in the opening minutes of the very first episode.
6. Josh has a soft spot for actress Jessica Alba, but is not averse to more veteran stars. He confesses: "I've fantasised about Barbra Streisand and I saw Sophia Loren at a restaurant a couple of years ago and I thought, ‘Wow, I’d still go there'."
7. Josh admits that there's a bit of Sawyer's dark side in him - just a bit, mind. "There's definitely an intense anger that I have inside, and I don't know where it came from," he says. "I've had it all my life. My mom was always like, 'You're going to end up in jail with that temper!' Now I use that to help me."
8. Josh met his Indonesian wife Yessica at a bar when he hit on her friend. "Right when I stuck my foot in my mouth and said something stupid I got tapped on my shoulder and there behind me was this beautiful little package with a martini in her hand," he remembers. "She looked me up and down and said: 'Give me your number before you leave.'" The couple were married in 2004.
9. Josh was working on a new TV show called My Roommate's A Big Fat Slut (yes, really!) when Yessica called to report that a fax about a new series called Lost had arrived. He auditioned the next day and the rest is history.
10. He may be happily married, but that doesn't stop Josh thinking about the opposite sex. He tells us: "If I were single, I’d have one girl doing my laundry, one shaving me, one bringing me a cocktail and another one coming out of my tent all hungover." Form an orderly queue, ladies!
Source: digitalspy.co.uk
1. Josh and his four siblings grew up with their parents in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where they lived in a trailer equipped with "eight dogs, two horses, cats, a cow, and a chicken".
2. What did little Josh want to be when he grew up? Erm... everything. He says: "I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor..." We're sure a TV star wouldn't be too far down the list.
3. Josh's first job was shovelling chicken carcasses.
4. Josh worked as a male model before turning to acting and admits to taking part in some pretty odd photoshoots in his day. He recalls: "[I worked on] a pyjama campaign. The pyjamas had different animal prints and our hair was styled to look like the animal. I ended up with a cow print hairdo with little horns. It only appeared in Europe, luckily, so my friends didn’t see it."
5. Josh made his TV debut as 'Good Looking Guy' in Buffy spinoff Angel in 1999. Unfortunately his vampire character was dispatched by the hero in the opening minutes of the very first episode.
6. Josh has a soft spot for actress Jessica Alba, but is not averse to more veteran stars. He confesses: "I've fantasised about Barbra Streisand and I saw Sophia Loren at a restaurant a couple of years ago and I thought, ‘Wow, I’d still go there'."
7. Josh admits that there's a bit of Sawyer's dark side in him - just a bit, mind. "There's definitely an intense anger that I have inside, and I don't know where it came from," he says. "I've had it all my life. My mom was always like, 'You're going to end up in jail with that temper!' Now I use that to help me."
8. Josh met his Indonesian wife Yessica at a bar when he hit on her friend. "Right when I stuck my foot in my mouth and said something stupid I got tapped on my shoulder and there behind me was this beautiful little package with a martini in her hand," he remembers. "She looked me up and down and said: 'Give me your number before you leave.'" The couple were married in 2004.
9. Josh was working on a new TV show called My Roommate's A Big Fat Slut (yes, really!) when Yessica called to report that a fax about a new series called Lost had arrived. He auditioned the next day and the rest is history.
10. He may be happily married, but that doesn't stop Josh thinking about the opposite sex. He tells us: "If I were single, I’d have one girl doing my laundry, one shaving me, one bringing me a cocktail and another one coming out of my tent all hungover." Form an orderly queue, ladies!
Source: digitalspy.co.uk
'LOST' star plans Oregon escape
'Lost' star Matthew Fox has started making plans for life after the TV hit - he has bought land in Oregon.
The actor, who plays Dr Jack Shephard on the desert island drama, admits he has had enough of paradise on Hawaii, where 'Lost' is shot, and he can't wait to become an outdoorsman.
He says: "We're moving to Oregon. I want to be closer to my brothers and their children. We really want our kids to have tight first-cousin relationships.
Source: breakingnews.iol.ie
The 'Lost' star, who moved his family to the Pacific island because the hit US TV show is filmed there, is planning to move almost 3,000 miles to Oregon to be closer to his brothers once the series finishes.
He said: "I've been living in Hawaii for almost four years now, so it's not really paradise any more, man. Throwing snowballs on a mountain top is now paradise.
"We're moving to Oregon. I want to be closer to my brothers and their children. We really want our kids to have tight first-cousin relationships. I want to enjoy fishing, hiking, skiing, mountains and fresh air."
In the show, Fox - who has two children, 10-year-old daughter Kyle and son Byron, seven, with his Italian wife Margherita Ronchi - plays Dr. Jack Shephard, an airplane crash survivor trying to find a way off the mysterious island he and his fellow survivors are trapped on.
Fox admits living in Hawaii does have its advantages as he is able to maintain his private lifestyle. He added: "Hawaii has also been beneficial in that I really don't like the whole paparazzi thing in my daily life. There are not a lot of paparazzi who want to do the 2,500-mile trek into the south Pacific for a shot of me walking on the beach."
Source: javno.com
The actor, who plays Dr Jack Shephard on the desert island drama, admits he has had enough of paradise on Hawaii, where 'Lost' is shot, and he can't wait to become an outdoorsman.
He says: "We're moving to Oregon. I want to be closer to my brothers and their children. We really want our kids to have tight first-cousin relationships.
Source: breakingnews.iol.ie
The 'Lost' star, who moved his family to the Pacific island because the hit US TV show is filmed there, is planning to move almost 3,000 miles to Oregon to be closer to his brothers once the series finishes.
He said: "I've been living in Hawaii for almost four years now, so it's not really paradise any more, man. Throwing snowballs on a mountain top is now paradise.
"We're moving to Oregon. I want to be closer to my brothers and their children. We really want our kids to have tight first-cousin relationships. I want to enjoy fishing, hiking, skiing, mountains and fresh air."
In the show, Fox - who has two children, 10-year-old daughter Kyle and son Byron, seven, with his Italian wife Margherita Ronchi - plays Dr. Jack Shephard, an airplane crash survivor trying to find a way off the mysterious island he and his fellow survivors are trapped on.
Fox admits living in Hawaii does have its advantages as he is able to maintain his private lifestyle. He added: "Hawaii has also been beneficial in that I really don't like the whole paparazzi thing in my daily life. There are not a lot of paparazzi who want to do the 2,500-mile trek into the south Pacific for a shot of me walking on the beach."
Source: javno.com
Thursday, May 29, 2008
De Ravin has ‘Lost’ feeling about her character on island drama
One would think that starring in “Lost” would give an actor an advantage in knowing what the heck is going on.
But Emilie de Ravin, who plays Claire on the baffling drama, had the same questions as many fans did this season when an episode revealed that, in the future, Kate (Evangeline Lilly) is raising Claire’s son Aaron.
“I guess I just sort of wondered where Claire’s at,” de Ravin said. “Is she still on the island? Did she die? What happened to her?”
The Australia native said viewers won’t find out in Thursday night’s two-hour season finale
“No, you don’t know what happens to Claire,” she said. “That’s not one of the things that comes to a conclusion. The finale has more questions than answers. I have to be tight-lipped about the finale. What can I ever say? It’s big. There’s a lot going on. It’s sort of interesting what you see in the future.”
When viewers last saw Claire, she had been separated from Aaron and was calmly sitting in Jacob’s cabin. What was that about?
“She is not evil, but there is something going on that I don’t know about. I kind of stopped asking too many questions a long time ago. You are not going to know everything. There are always things you are going to find out.”
She promises that viewers will see Claire in the season-ender.
“Claire sort of pops up in an unexpected place,” she said cryptically.
The actress, who can be seen in the upcoming movie “Public Enemies” opposite Johnny Depp, said she has stopped worrying about whether she will be written off the series like so many of her former co-stars.
“I’ve been around this long, so that’s a good thing,” she said. “I connect with Claire being sort of a strong, driven character who goes through a lot. She has sort of come through with such a graceful way about her. She’s very strong and very focused on getting off the island.”
But de Ravin still struggles to adjust to the cast changes, especially the departure of Dominic Monaghan, who played Claire’s love interest Charlie.
“It really has made it difficult. You get used to working with someone and it’s sad. But it’s interesting emotions to work with. Dealing with death and something like that has a big impact on your character. It’s interesting having that in the back of your mind.”
Source: news.bostonherald.com
But Emilie de Ravin, who plays Claire on the baffling drama, had the same questions as many fans did this season when an episode revealed that, in the future, Kate (Evangeline Lilly) is raising Claire’s son Aaron.
“I guess I just sort of wondered where Claire’s at,” de Ravin said. “Is she still on the island? Did she die? What happened to her?”
The Australia native said viewers won’t find out in Thursday night’s two-hour season finale
“No, you don’t know what happens to Claire,” she said. “That’s not one of the things that comes to a conclusion. The finale has more questions than answers. I have to be tight-lipped about the finale. What can I ever say? It’s big. There’s a lot going on. It’s sort of interesting what you see in the future.”
When viewers last saw Claire, she had been separated from Aaron and was calmly sitting in Jacob’s cabin. What was that about?
“She is not evil, but there is something going on that I don’t know about. I kind of stopped asking too many questions a long time ago. You are not going to know everything. There are always things you are going to find out.”
She promises that viewers will see Claire in the season-ender.
“Claire sort of pops up in an unexpected place,” she said cryptically.
The actress, who can be seen in the upcoming movie “Public Enemies” opposite Johnny Depp, said she has stopped worrying about whether she will be written off the series like so many of her former co-stars.
“I’ve been around this long, so that’s a good thing,” she said. “I connect with Claire being sort of a strong, driven character who goes through a lot. She has sort of come through with such a graceful way about her. She’s very strong and very focused on getting off the island.”
But de Ravin still struggles to adjust to the cast changes, especially the departure of Dominic Monaghan, who played Claire’s love interest Charlie.
“It really has made it difficult. You get used to working with someone and it’s sad. But it’s interesting emotions to work with. Dealing with death and something like that has a big impact on your character. It’s interesting having that in the back of your mind.”
Source: news.bostonherald.com
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The 15 best moments of Lost's fourth season (so far)
The 15 best moments of Lost's fourth season (so far)
With the big finale coming, Daniel gathers up the most treasured moments of series 4...
Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy
Goddammit, I can’t believe it’s nearly over already – oh Darlton, you giveth, then you taketh away. In preparation for this week’s second and third parts to season finale “There’s No Place Like Home”, I decided it’s high time to browse back over what may have been the best season of Lost thus far… and prepare ourselves for the traditional two-hour blow-out of Mystery Freakin’ Island manna the episode promises to deliver. (The Orchid, anyone?) If you guys disagree over these being the best moments of the season – I’m notoriously picky when it comes to neat little character stuff, in all honesty – or agree with me, feel free to fire off in the comments section below. Namaste!
WARNING: IF YOU’RE NOT CAUGHT UP AND READ AHEAD, FACE THE WRATH OF SPOILAGE. WRATH!!
15. “You heard me.” (Matthew Abaddon, from “The Beginning of the End”)
When Lance Reddick first appeared in Lost, I found it hard to break myself away from his Cedric Daniels character on The Wire – matter of fact, I had to stop myself from squealing “Daniels!” when he showed up on screen. Yet through rewatching the episodes for the recaps, I enjoyed watching one of my favourite TV actors sink into a completely different role, making the mysterious Abaddon his own. Who is the man? Where do his allegiances lie? How has Reddick’s trademark million mile stare turned into something completely terrifying? (Example: when he asks Hurley if the non-O6 survivors are still alive. Creepy.)
14. “ Manhattan , huh?” (Tom, from “Meet Kevin Johnson”)
True story: I was watching “Through The Looking Glass” for what must have been the twelfth time with a bunch of friends last year, when it came to Sawyer’s killing of Tom a.k.a. Mr Friendly. The gunshot goes out and one of my friends yells, “No! Gainey!” Let’s admit it, in the end we really did like M.C. Gainey’s Tom, even though he was one of the baddies. (But then again, Lost makes you continually question what terms such as “good” and “bad” really mean. Does evil really exist in the show’s universe? That’s another question for another time, though.) That’s why it was such a joy to see Tom back on the show, pressurising Michael to head back to the island, dropping the bomb that the island won’t let certain people die, getting it together with a tall young thing in his penthouse suite and basically lording it over the entire episode in a short period of time. If there’s any casting directors out there wanting to make Gainey the next sitcom hero or the new Danny Huston (who, IMO, he shares a grizzled resemblance to), either would be lovely.
13. “I dunno Miles… how stupid are ya?” (Jack, from “Confirmed Dead”)
The tables turn on freighter folk Miles and Daniel in a second here – Miles has threatened Jack and Kate to take him to Naomi’s body with the help of a trusty handgun, when suddenly, at the site of death, Jack warns him that Juliet and Sayid are amongst the surrounding greenery with guns in their hands and them in their targets. A very Other-esque move, I noticed, but one that Miles, stupidly enough, did not take heed to. It’s a pretty Indiana Jones moment for Jack with him barely suppressing a smirk under his anger the freighter folk may not be all they say they are. Wink for the camera, Foxy.
12. “I made… dinner.” (Jin, from “Ji Yeon”)
It’s a given rule that whenever ridiculously underused Jin starts speaking pidgin English to his ridiculously gorgeous wife Sun, my little emo heart breaks and I stumble wildly on the verge of tears. (Past examples are to be found in “Through The Looking Glass” and, taking the grand prize, “The Whole Truth”. Le sob.) This was no different, as he accepted Sun’s past infidelity as punishment for his past sins, vowing to stay with her no matter what. The cincher: Yunjin Kim’s tearful, voice-breaking line-reading of “I swear the baby is yours”, swiftly followed by Jin promising she will never lose him. Thanks to the flash-forward/flashback twist, now with added heart-shattering poignancy!
11. “What do you mean - instead of his wife?” (Ben, from “The Other Woman”)
The Goodwin Affair, as it shall be capitalised from here on in, was a controversial storyline amongst fans (despite being explicitly referred to in “One of Us”) and probably helped this Juliet-centric episode to be considered the weak point of the season. That’s arguable. In my opinion, the tragic romantic melodrama of Juliet’s flashbacks held some pretty meaty character stuff, most of which exploded on-screen in the final flashback. Over Goodwin’s Ana-Lucia’d corpse, Ben finally, chillingly loses his cool, throwing a tantrum over the heartbroken fertility doctor not returning his advances: “After everything I did to get you here… after everything I’ve done to keep you here, how can you possibly not understand you’re mine?!” Go on and call it his “quite frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” moment.
10. “They need you, Hugo. You know they need you!” (Charlie, from “The Beginning of the End”)
As anybody who watches Lost knows, death is not the end. (Look at Mikhail. Dude died, like, twelve times in season three.) So when Charlie drowned in the Looking Glass at the end of season three, after all the angst had peeled off, we were left to wonder if we’d ever see the Driveshafter ever again. Lo and behold, THERE HE IS TALKING TO HURLEY IN THE FUTURE. He’s cut his hair, bought some new clothes and seems to have driven to the Santa Rosa Mental Institute in a newish car to see his friend, which is odd, because he’s most definitely dead. “I am dead,” he reassured Hurley, “but I’m also here.” I’m sticking to my theory that Hurley, like a lesser Miles, can see the dead, hence why Charlie seems to come back to him, passing out warnings from beyond the grave and such (see “Somewhere Nice Back Home”). But theorising aside, this scene allows both emotional release (Hurley asking Charlie if he knew he was going to die in the Looking Glass) and the beginning of some very puzzling questions. “They” need him? There’s folk left on the island?
9. An awkward silence. Some crumpling. (Hurley and Ben, from “Cabin Fever”)
Some people probably hate this scene. I think it’s hilarious. Here we have a BIG reveal within Jacob’s shack that Christian Shephard is his spokesperson, Claire is there and completely untroubled when it comes to Aaron’s whereabouts, and John is finally grabbing hold of his destiny. Then we have a scene (consisting of one long take and entirely free of dialogue) in which Hurley, to offset the awkwardness of being left along with uber-Other Ben, takes out an Apollo bar from his backpack. Ben looks at it like he’s never seen a chocolate bar in his life, and suddenly Hurley notices, and reluctantly extends a very chocotastic olive branch. They sit and chew. I have a theory about this scene: the Whispers are being controlled by Ben’s supposed telepathic abilities (see “The Other Woman”) and it’s just a test to see if Hurley can be turned around. Maybe Hurley believes the dude just deserves a chocolate, what with his home attacked and daughter slain. Maybe this is the most important scene in Lost mythology ever and we just didn’t notice. Maybe. But at the same time, preferably not.
8. “I’m so glad that you’re here.” (Kate, from “Something Nice Back Home”)
Don’t get me wrong, it’s been great, but this season has also been a pretty depressing experience. The Oceanic Six get off the island, but a lot of bad stuff went down between them; the other castaways may or may not be alive, seemingly stuck in Craphole Island purgatory; Michael returns to face his demons only to be ostracised and hated even more; to top it off, nobody’s seen Vincent for a while. So the scene where Jack reads Alice in Wonderland to Aaron is here on this list because it’s one of the very few flash-forward scenes this season that doesn’t carry great amounts of emotional baggage behind it. (Ignoring the potentially tragic Aaron subtext, as well as the rest of the episode’s flash forwards…) It carries a great poignancy as we know there’s a good chance we may never see these characters this happy ever again – when Kate shares how grateful she is Jack’s with her and Aaron, it’s a necessary ray of sunshine in a dark hour of television. Oh, and they make out and more than likely frak afterwards, which never hurts matters.
7. “We are in shock, Jack.” (Sun, from “There’s No Place Like Home, Part One”)
I was unable to analyse this episode for a recap last week due to the episode unwilling to play a second time for me, so indulge me here. The unease between the Oceanic Six in the plane’s hanger is something you can tell gets worse over time, but let’s not focus on the sadness of all that. My focus has to go towards the incredibly touching reunion scene in Hawaii of the Oceanic Six with their families. Sun heads straight for her mother yet sent reeling from Jin’s death (?), shuts her father out completely; Hurley, always the most familial of men, rolls into the arms of his parents (probably the most underrated characters on the show); Jack smiles at his not-glimpsed-since-season-one mother, Margot, before embracing her; Sayid looks around uneasily before being introduced to Hurley’s family (so sweet!); Kate, holding on to Aaron for dear life, looks lost already with no-one to comfort her. I’ve always been a fan of the group reunions in Lost (see “One of Us”, for example) but this one is something else – exhilaration (did you ever think one of these scenes was possible a mere season ago?) mixed with understated poignancy over everything unspoken that went down in… well, this week’s season finale.
6. “Enjoy your breakfast.” (Locke, from “Eggtown”)
Played by Ken Leung with a sly intensity, Miles made his mark as probably the best of the new characters this season, and in “Eggtown” he really got to let loose, stealing practically every scene he’s in, even with a grenade in his mouth, which is what happens here. Unfairly overlooked in my recap at the time, the scene is a number of things: it’s a horrifying example of Locke flying totally off the handle, but it’s somehow hilarious. It’s detestable that somebody could go to such measures, but with Terry O’Quinn, you believe that, yes, rules broken do deserve punishments – but to what extent can might make right? It’s a troubling, daring scene – it’s also utterly ridiculous, to be honest – but what makes it an instant classic Lost moment is Miles’ bulging, terrified eyes and mumbled screeching. One problem, though: how the hell did they get the grenade out of the guy’s mouth without it blowing up?
5. “Now tell me John, which of these things belong to you?” (Richard, from “Cabin Fever”)
Not only did “Cabin Fever” allow for the return of fan-favourite Other Richard Alpert, but it showed us that he’s known John a lot longer than any of us previously thought. In possibly the season’s most cryptic scene, he appeared at Locke’s house some time in the late 50s and, posing as a teacher at a school for “extremely special” children, put a young John to a test. Because I was away when I was hoping to cover this episode, I didn’t get the chance to theorise, but here’s some quick stuff: baseball mitt (life outside of the island); Book of Laws (gospel of Jacob); sand (the ashes that previously surrounded Jacob’s cabin); a compass (marked 305 to the island?); a knife (hunting rather than science - John’s chosen path compared to his destiny); Mystery Tales comic book to do with a “Hidden Land” (telekinesis, a la Walt). Put to this the scribble of what looks like the smoke monster smiting somebody and, well… we have this odd, delicious scene to analyse relentlessly over the hiatus. (Kudos to the young actor playing Locke, he really makes the scene what it is with his big ol’ eyes.)
4. “It’s a rocket!” (Daniel, from “The Economist”)
AKA the moment the show finally shows us real world time isn’t really the same as island time. This, if you need reminding, is a bombshell. Even if Lapidus doesn’t pay much mind to Daniel and his experiment, it’s still damn important. Also, you have to love Daniel’s almost childish glee when the rocket finally reaches the beacon.
3. “She’s a pawn, nothing more. She means nothing to me.” (Ben, from “The Shape of Things to Come”)
Entertainment Weekly columnist Jeff Jensen (or “Doc Jensen” as he’s more widely known to us, his students) has compared this scene to the “bastard in a basket” scene near the end of There Will Be Blood, which is a pretty fair comparison to make. Ben, no longer in control, fights to use his regular manipulative abilities on Keamy to save Alex’s life. “She’s not my daughter,” he says, throwing away one of the things closest to him and going headfirst into the abyss, with spectacular results. The execution of Alex is, by far, the most upsetting thing to happen in the show’s history yet is also one of its biggest triumphs. A triumph of acting, direction, lighting, scoring… and it’s capped off by director Jack Bender panning the camera across to show a shocked and stunned Ben, the perfect touch. Ooft.
2. “I love you, Penny. I’ve always loved you… I’m so sorry. I love you.” (Desmond, from “The Constant”)
When Desmond finally – finally! – makes contact with his true love Penny in the all-round-amazing-shoulda-been-nominated-for-a-Hugo-Award-episode “The Constant”, it’s enough to make grown men cry. There’s so much I could say, but really, it’s just worth it to watch the scene again instead:
1. “I know who you are, boy, what you are. I know that everything you have, you took from me.” (Charles Widmore, from “The Shape of Things to Come”)
For a long, long time, Charles Widmore has stood as an important name in the massive Lost mythology – Widmore Industries comes under the Hanso Foundation umbrella, which founded the Dharma Initiative etc etc etc – but never quite as important as in this scene: on one hand a massive download of series arcana, on the other a scene allowing two superb actors to bite their teeth into some excellent conflict-fuelling dialogue. As Ben breaks into his hotel suite to lay the death of Alex at his feet, we learn their relationship spans a number of years. Were they friends at any point? Was one mentor to the other? (I guess Widmore was Yoda to Ben’s Luke.) The scene raises a lot – A LOT – of questions but amongst them all, seemingly sets the stage and the stakes for the big endgame come 2010: Widmore vs. Linus. “I suppose the hunt is on,” Widmore says. Indeed.
Well, if you disagree, want to say what you think is better, or think I’ve got it mostly spot on, then leave a comment below. Until the finale recaps next week, namaste!
Source: denofgeek.com
With the big finale coming, Daniel gathers up the most treasured moments of series 4...
Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy
Goddammit, I can’t believe it’s nearly over already – oh Darlton, you giveth, then you taketh away. In preparation for this week’s second and third parts to season finale “There’s No Place Like Home”, I decided it’s high time to browse back over what may have been the best season of Lost thus far… and prepare ourselves for the traditional two-hour blow-out of Mystery Freakin’ Island manna the episode promises to deliver. (The Orchid, anyone?) If you guys disagree over these being the best moments of the season – I’m notoriously picky when it comes to neat little character stuff, in all honesty – or agree with me, feel free to fire off in the comments section below. Namaste!
WARNING: IF YOU’RE NOT CAUGHT UP AND READ AHEAD, FACE THE WRATH OF SPOILAGE. WRATH!!
15. “You heard me.” (Matthew Abaddon, from “The Beginning of the End”)
When Lance Reddick first appeared in Lost, I found it hard to break myself away from his Cedric Daniels character on The Wire – matter of fact, I had to stop myself from squealing “Daniels!” when he showed up on screen. Yet through rewatching the episodes for the recaps, I enjoyed watching one of my favourite TV actors sink into a completely different role, making the mysterious Abaddon his own. Who is the man? Where do his allegiances lie? How has Reddick’s trademark million mile stare turned into something completely terrifying? (Example: when he asks Hurley if the non-O6 survivors are still alive. Creepy.)
14. “ Manhattan , huh?” (Tom, from “Meet Kevin Johnson”)
True story: I was watching “Through The Looking Glass” for what must have been the twelfth time with a bunch of friends last year, when it came to Sawyer’s killing of Tom a.k.a. Mr Friendly. The gunshot goes out and one of my friends yells, “No! Gainey!” Let’s admit it, in the end we really did like M.C. Gainey’s Tom, even though he was one of the baddies. (But then again, Lost makes you continually question what terms such as “good” and “bad” really mean. Does evil really exist in the show’s universe? That’s another question for another time, though.) That’s why it was such a joy to see Tom back on the show, pressurising Michael to head back to the island, dropping the bomb that the island won’t let certain people die, getting it together with a tall young thing in his penthouse suite and basically lording it over the entire episode in a short period of time. If there’s any casting directors out there wanting to make Gainey the next sitcom hero or the new Danny Huston (who, IMO, he shares a grizzled resemblance to), either would be lovely.
13. “I dunno Miles… how stupid are ya?” (Jack, from “Confirmed Dead”)
The tables turn on freighter folk Miles and Daniel in a second here – Miles has threatened Jack and Kate to take him to Naomi’s body with the help of a trusty handgun, when suddenly, at the site of death, Jack warns him that Juliet and Sayid are amongst the surrounding greenery with guns in their hands and them in their targets. A very Other-esque move, I noticed, but one that Miles, stupidly enough, did not take heed to. It’s a pretty Indiana Jones moment for Jack with him barely suppressing a smirk under his anger the freighter folk may not be all they say they are. Wink for the camera, Foxy.
12. “I made… dinner.” (Jin, from “Ji Yeon”)
It’s a given rule that whenever ridiculously underused Jin starts speaking pidgin English to his ridiculously gorgeous wife Sun, my little emo heart breaks and I stumble wildly on the verge of tears. (Past examples are to be found in “Through The Looking Glass” and, taking the grand prize, “The Whole Truth”. Le sob.) This was no different, as he accepted Sun’s past infidelity as punishment for his past sins, vowing to stay with her no matter what. The cincher: Yunjin Kim’s tearful, voice-breaking line-reading of “I swear the baby is yours”, swiftly followed by Jin promising she will never lose him. Thanks to the flash-forward/flashback twist, now with added heart-shattering poignancy!
11. “What do you mean - instead of his wife?” (Ben, from “The Other Woman”)
The Goodwin Affair, as it shall be capitalised from here on in, was a controversial storyline amongst fans (despite being explicitly referred to in “One of Us”) and probably helped this Juliet-centric episode to be considered the weak point of the season. That’s arguable. In my opinion, the tragic romantic melodrama of Juliet’s flashbacks held some pretty meaty character stuff, most of which exploded on-screen in the final flashback. Over Goodwin’s Ana-Lucia’d corpse, Ben finally, chillingly loses his cool, throwing a tantrum over the heartbroken fertility doctor not returning his advances: “After everything I did to get you here… after everything I’ve done to keep you here, how can you possibly not understand you’re mine?!” Go on and call it his “quite frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” moment.
10. “They need you, Hugo. You know they need you!” (Charlie, from “The Beginning of the End”)
As anybody who watches Lost knows, death is not the end. (Look at Mikhail. Dude died, like, twelve times in season three.) So when Charlie drowned in the Looking Glass at the end of season three, after all the angst had peeled off, we were left to wonder if we’d ever see the Driveshafter ever again. Lo and behold, THERE HE IS TALKING TO HURLEY IN THE FUTURE. He’s cut his hair, bought some new clothes and seems to have driven to the Santa Rosa Mental Institute in a newish car to see his friend, which is odd, because he’s most definitely dead. “I am dead,” he reassured Hurley, “but I’m also here.” I’m sticking to my theory that Hurley, like a lesser Miles, can see the dead, hence why Charlie seems to come back to him, passing out warnings from beyond the grave and such (see “Somewhere Nice Back Home”). But theorising aside, this scene allows both emotional release (Hurley asking Charlie if he knew he was going to die in the Looking Glass) and the beginning of some very puzzling questions. “They” need him? There’s folk left on the island?
9. An awkward silence. Some crumpling. (Hurley and Ben, from “Cabin Fever”)
Some people probably hate this scene. I think it’s hilarious. Here we have a BIG reveal within Jacob’s shack that Christian Shephard is his spokesperson, Claire is there and completely untroubled when it comes to Aaron’s whereabouts, and John is finally grabbing hold of his destiny. Then we have a scene (consisting of one long take and entirely free of dialogue) in which Hurley, to offset the awkwardness of being left along with uber-Other Ben, takes out an Apollo bar from his backpack. Ben looks at it like he’s never seen a chocolate bar in his life, and suddenly Hurley notices, and reluctantly extends a very chocotastic olive branch. They sit and chew. I have a theory about this scene: the Whispers are being controlled by Ben’s supposed telepathic abilities (see “The Other Woman”) and it’s just a test to see if Hurley can be turned around. Maybe Hurley believes the dude just deserves a chocolate, what with his home attacked and daughter slain. Maybe this is the most important scene in Lost mythology ever and we just didn’t notice. Maybe. But at the same time, preferably not.
8. “I’m so glad that you’re here.” (Kate, from “Something Nice Back Home”)
Don’t get me wrong, it’s been great, but this season has also been a pretty depressing experience. The Oceanic Six get off the island, but a lot of bad stuff went down between them; the other castaways may or may not be alive, seemingly stuck in Craphole Island purgatory; Michael returns to face his demons only to be ostracised and hated even more; to top it off, nobody’s seen Vincent for a while. So the scene where Jack reads Alice in Wonderland to Aaron is here on this list because it’s one of the very few flash-forward scenes this season that doesn’t carry great amounts of emotional baggage behind it. (Ignoring the potentially tragic Aaron subtext, as well as the rest of the episode’s flash forwards…) It carries a great poignancy as we know there’s a good chance we may never see these characters this happy ever again – when Kate shares how grateful she is Jack’s with her and Aaron, it’s a necessary ray of sunshine in a dark hour of television. Oh, and they make out and more than likely frak afterwards, which never hurts matters.
7. “We are in shock, Jack.” (Sun, from “There’s No Place Like Home, Part One”)
I was unable to analyse this episode for a recap last week due to the episode unwilling to play a second time for me, so indulge me here. The unease between the Oceanic Six in the plane’s hanger is something you can tell gets worse over time, but let’s not focus on the sadness of all that. My focus has to go towards the incredibly touching reunion scene in Hawaii of the Oceanic Six with their families. Sun heads straight for her mother yet sent reeling from Jin’s death (?), shuts her father out completely; Hurley, always the most familial of men, rolls into the arms of his parents (probably the most underrated characters on the show); Jack smiles at his not-glimpsed-since-season-one mother, Margot, before embracing her; Sayid looks around uneasily before being introduced to Hurley’s family (so sweet!); Kate, holding on to Aaron for dear life, looks lost already with no-one to comfort her. I’ve always been a fan of the group reunions in Lost (see “One of Us”, for example) but this one is something else – exhilaration (did you ever think one of these scenes was possible a mere season ago?) mixed with understated poignancy over everything unspoken that went down in… well, this week’s season finale.
6. “Enjoy your breakfast.” (Locke, from “Eggtown”)
Played by Ken Leung with a sly intensity, Miles made his mark as probably the best of the new characters this season, and in “Eggtown” he really got to let loose, stealing practically every scene he’s in, even with a grenade in his mouth, which is what happens here. Unfairly overlooked in my recap at the time, the scene is a number of things: it’s a horrifying example of Locke flying totally off the handle, but it’s somehow hilarious. It’s detestable that somebody could go to such measures, but with Terry O’Quinn, you believe that, yes, rules broken do deserve punishments – but to what extent can might make right? It’s a troubling, daring scene – it’s also utterly ridiculous, to be honest – but what makes it an instant classic Lost moment is Miles’ bulging, terrified eyes and mumbled screeching. One problem, though: how the hell did they get the grenade out of the guy’s mouth without it blowing up?
5. “Now tell me John, which of these things belong to you?” (Richard, from “Cabin Fever”)
Not only did “Cabin Fever” allow for the return of fan-favourite Other Richard Alpert, but it showed us that he’s known John a lot longer than any of us previously thought. In possibly the season’s most cryptic scene, he appeared at Locke’s house some time in the late 50s and, posing as a teacher at a school for “extremely special” children, put a young John to a test. Because I was away when I was hoping to cover this episode, I didn’t get the chance to theorise, but here’s some quick stuff: baseball mitt (life outside of the island); Book of Laws (gospel of Jacob); sand (the ashes that previously surrounded Jacob’s cabin); a compass (marked 305 to the island?); a knife (hunting rather than science - John’s chosen path compared to his destiny); Mystery Tales comic book to do with a “Hidden Land” (telekinesis, a la Walt). Put to this the scribble of what looks like the smoke monster smiting somebody and, well… we have this odd, delicious scene to analyse relentlessly over the hiatus. (Kudos to the young actor playing Locke, he really makes the scene what it is with his big ol’ eyes.)
4. “It’s a rocket!” (Daniel, from “The Economist”)
AKA the moment the show finally shows us real world time isn’t really the same as island time. This, if you need reminding, is a bombshell. Even if Lapidus doesn’t pay much mind to Daniel and his experiment, it’s still damn important. Also, you have to love Daniel’s almost childish glee when the rocket finally reaches the beacon.
3. “She’s a pawn, nothing more. She means nothing to me.” (Ben, from “The Shape of Things to Come”)
Entertainment Weekly columnist Jeff Jensen (or “Doc Jensen” as he’s more widely known to us, his students) has compared this scene to the “bastard in a basket” scene near the end of There Will Be Blood, which is a pretty fair comparison to make. Ben, no longer in control, fights to use his regular manipulative abilities on Keamy to save Alex’s life. “She’s not my daughter,” he says, throwing away one of the things closest to him and going headfirst into the abyss, with spectacular results. The execution of Alex is, by far, the most upsetting thing to happen in the show’s history yet is also one of its biggest triumphs. A triumph of acting, direction, lighting, scoring… and it’s capped off by director Jack Bender panning the camera across to show a shocked and stunned Ben, the perfect touch. Ooft.
2. “I love you, Penny. I’ve always loved you… I’m so sorry. I love you.” (Desmond, from “The Constant”)
When Desmond finally – finally! – makes contact with his true love Penny in the all-round-amazing-shoulda-been-nominated-for-a-Hugo-Award-episode “The Constant”, it’s enough to make grown men cry. There’s so much I could say, but really, it’s just worth it to watch the scene again instead:
1. “I know who you are, boy, what you are. I know that everything you have, you took from me.” (Charles Widmore, from “The Shape of Things to Come”)
For a long, long time, Charles Widmore has stood as an important name in the massive Lost mythology – Widmore Industries comes under the Hanso Foundation umbrella, which founded the Dharma Initiative etc etc etc – but never quite as important as in this scene: on one hand a massive download of series arcana, on the other a scene allowing two superb actors to bite their teeth into some excellent conflict-fuelling dialogue. As Ben breaks into his hotel suite to lay the death of Alex at his feet, we learn their relationship spans a number of years. Were they friends at any point? Was one mentor to the other? (I guess Widmore was Yoda to Ben’s Luke.) The scene raises a lot – A LOT – of questions but amongst them all, seemingly sets the stage and the stakes for the big endgame come 2010: Widmore vs. Linus. “I suppose the hunt is on,” Widmore says. Indeed.
Well, if you disagree, want to say what you think is better, or think I’ve got it mostly spot on, then leave a comment below. Until the finale recaps next week, namaste!
Source: denofgeek.com
Monday, May 19, 2008
LOST - HOLLOWAY STOLE HIS DAD'S UNDERWEAR FOR SEXY ENCOUNTERS
LOST hunk JOSH HOLLOWAY used to steal his father's underwear whenever he was on a hot date - because his dad had the most amazing "banana hammocks".
The actor admits his father's pants gave him an air of confidence when he started dating as a teenager.
Holloway recalls, "When I thought I might have an interesting date, I would sneak into my father's room and poach his underwear because he was like Mr Speedo pattern - he had, like, paisleys and some leopard skins (designs) and they were all, like, banana hammocks - really nice.
"For some reason I thought that might be sexy."
But he accepts his penchant for his father's underwear must have confused his mother: "She would suddenly see this underwear that dad hadn't been sporting show up in (my) laundry.
Source: www.contactmusic.com
The actor admits his father's pants gave him an air of confidence when he started dating as a teenager.
Holloway recalls, "When I thought I might have an interesting date, I would sneak into my father's room and poach his underwear because he was like Mr Speedo pattern - he had, like, paisleys and some leopard skins (designs) and they were all, like, banana hammocks - really nice.
"For some reason I thought that might be sexy."
But he accepts his penchant for his father's underwear must have confused his mother: "She would suddenly see this underwear that dad hadn't been sporting show up in (my) laundry.
Source: www.contactmusic.com
LOST - EVANGELINE LILLY: 'I'M A MISER'
LOST star EVANGELINE LILLY only moved from a mouldy Hawaiian hovel after it made her ill - because she was too cheap to relocate.
The actress purchased a new home last year (07), after her previous house on the islands - where she shoots Lost - burned down.
But the new pad was similarly cursed; it was riddled with a fungus that started to affect her health.
And Lilly only moved out when she started to fear for her wellbeing.
She says, "I bought a house last summer and I ended up finding out that it was completely mould-infested, and I was being poisoned by the mould and was therefore very ill for the first four months of the (Lost) shooting season.
"But I didn't find out for four months and I didn't move from the house, even though I knew something was wrong and I was probably not well, because I'm just really cheap and if I have to pay a mortgage and rent, I'm not a happy person.
"Eventually my illness overrided (sic) my thriftiness. I really wasn't well. The pipes were contaminated. It was a cheap house."
Lilly adds her thriftiness isn't isolated to real-estate. She adds, "For the first three years of being on Lost I refused to valet, because I didn't want to tip."
Source: www.contactmusic.com
The actress purchased a new home last year (07), after her previous house on the islands - where she shoots Lost - burned down.
But the new pad was similarly cursed; it was riddled with a fungus that started to affect her health.
And Lilly only moved out when she started to fear for her wellbeing.
She says, "I bought a house last summer and I ended up finding out that it was completely mould-infested, and I was being poisoned by the mould and was therefore very ill for the first four months of the (Lost) shooting season.
"But I didn't find out for four months and I didn't move from the house, even though I knew something was wrong and I was probably not well, because I'm just really cheap and if I have to pay a mortgage and rent, I'm not a happy person.
"Eventually my illness overrided (sic) my thriftiness. I really wasn't well. The pipes were contaminated. It was a cheap house."
Lilly adds her thriftiness isn't isolated to real-estate. She adds, "For the first three years of being on Lost I refused to valet, because I didn't want to tip."
Source: www.contactmusic.com
Lost star Matthew Fox reveals his wife thinks he's sexy in leather
The hunky Lost star, 41, on his heart-throb status, life on the island, getting saucy in leather, being rubbish at romance, and why he has a very big secret to keep.
You are often on ‘Sexiest man alive’ lists. How does that feel?
Matthew Fox: It feels like it’s happening to someone else. I mean I just go to work and I’m doing the thing I love to do.
Are the tattoos (chinese symbols, among other things) on your arms real, or are they make-up?
MF: No, these are all mine. I’ve had them for a while, but they usually cover them up for the show.
You live and work in Hawaii – how lucky are you?
MF: I’ve never really been a beach paradise kinda guy. I’m more of a mountain person, so it’s been amazing and we’re enjoying it. It’s been a welcome change for us to get the kids away from the bigger city. They’re in a really good school and they’re making great friends, but it’s not a place I’d want to live in for the rest of my life. I just need bigger horizons, mountains, and I really miss four seasons of weather.
So what’s happening on Lost?
MF: We’re going to catch up with the flash forwards this year and then it’s going to be really interesting to see how time is structured in season five. But we will have closed on two points – the finale of last year where you had that juxtaposition of Jack on the island feeling like he’d finally accomplished a rescue, and this future where he’s desperate and at the pit of despair and he feels like he has to go back. We will eventually be back in the present.
Apparently, you’re the only actor on Lost who knows how the series will end. Is it tough keeping it a secret from your cast mates?
MF: Yes, it’s true. They understand I can’t talk about it, but sometimes they’ll ask hoping I’ll just blurt it out. Besides, having a secret is fun.
How do you pass the time on set?
MF: I play chess against the computer a lot. When I’m shooting in Hawaii, there’s a coffee shop not far from me and I have friends there now, who I’ve made over the game of chess. I go there a couple of mornings a week and we’ll play chess. It’s the greatest game.
You’re currently in the new flick Speed Racer. Were you a fan of the original cartoon as a kid?
MF: No. I never saw it. I grew up in a household where we didn’t really watch television. So the first step was watching a bunch of the episodes and getting a feel for what made that series so cultish and beloved in the 1960s.
Do you feel sexy wearing Racer X’s leather suit?
MF: Yeah. It’s pretty sexy. I think my wife thought so! The minute the mask dropped over my face people would change around me. It’s amazing because they can’t see your eyes and you can really manipulate that. You can mess with them in a big way.
Do you still have it?
MF: No, that would be really funny wouldn’t it? If I was wearing that around my house on the weekends.
What did your kids Kyle, 11 and Byron, six, think of your costume?
MF: They thought it was cool. They were sitting on the set, which was huge and I’ll never forget their faces when I walked in wearing the full gear. They both turned and did this double-take and went: ‘Daddy?’ So I’m like, ‘Yeah it’s me, don’t worry, it’s just me.’ When I walked on set to do a scene, my little boy turned to my wife, and said: ‘I want to be Racer X for Halloween next year.’
Have they seen your action figure?
MF: Yes, my sons might have been the first little boys to have a Racer X action figure. I’m cool in their eyes right now which is a pretty great feeling.
How does someone who grew up not watchingTV become such a big TV actor?
MF: My parents weren’t really anti-television. They were just pro-books. That’s the sort of thing my wife and I are trying to do with our kids too. We let them watch a little TV, and we certainly encourage movies. Movies are my favourite thing in the world. Nothing is more exciting than sitting in a cinema, waiting for the lights to dim to watch a movie I can’t wait to see. The kids can watch some shows like the ones on Disney, but I also think it’s really important for them to develop their own imaginations to entertain themselves.
Why do you think you’ve been so successful?
MF: I think luck and timing are, without question, a big part of my success in this business. But I would also say I don’t think there are too many actors in Hollywood who have done three pilots which have all aired on TV, with two of them continuing for six years. There’s a phrase that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. So I’m going to take some of the credit for it.
Are your kids aware their daddy is a big star?
MF: I don’t know what a big star means. I guess people at school make a little bit of a thing about it, but I don’t think they’re really that conscious of it.
Would you like to have more kids?
MF: Every now and then I think about having another one, and then my wife says, ‘Absolutely not’.
Are you a romantic guy?
MF: On a romantic scale of 1 to 10, I’m probably like a 3. I’m not mushy about all of that stuff.
Some of your cast mates in Lost have got in trouble for speeding. Were you ever a speeder?
MF: Yeah, I enjoy driving fast. I’ve just been lucky not to have been caught. That’s the running joke – if you get pulled over by the cops, you get killed off in the show.
Do you ever get road rage?
MF: No. I’ve always really enjoyed driving. I grew up in Wyoming where the roads are really open. There’s not a lot of traffic. There are speed limits, but there’s not a lot of enforcement of those speed limits. It’s always been that sense of freedom which I enjoy.
How are you going to spend your summer?
MF: Well, for me, it’s been two years pretty much nonstop work with no vacation. So, I’m going to spend a lot of time with the kids and my other immediate family members and friends – just people I really love. Basically, I’m going to spend a lot of time doing nothing, just hanging out.
MATTHEW’S REALITY CHECK
Have you ever said ‘Don’t you know who I am?’
No, I don’t believe I have. I don’t want people to know who I am.
When was the last time you ate a Big Mac?
I’m not big on fast food. I eat quite healthy, so probably never.
How much does a pint of milk cost?
Well, I must be a movie star because I have no idea!
What car do you drive?
I just have a little Acura that I zip around the island on.
Do you recycle?
Yes and no. Someone else actually does all of that for me.
Speed Racer is in cinemas now.
Source: www.sundaymirror.co.uk
You are often on ‘Sexiest man alive’ lists. How does that feel?
Matthew Fox: It feels like it’s happening to someone else. I mean I just go to work and I’m doing the thing I love to do.
Are the tattoos (chinese symbols, among other things) on your arms real, or are they make-up?
MF: No, these are all mine. I’ve had them for a while, but they usually cover them up for the show.
You live and work in Hawaii – how lucky are you?
MF: I’ve never really been a beach paradise kinda guy. I’m more of a mountain person, so it’s been amazing and we’re enjoying it. It’s been a welcome change for us to get the kids away from the bigger city. They’re in a really good school and they’re making great friends, but it’s not a place I’d want to live in for the rest of my life. I just need bigger horizons, mountains, and I really miss four seasons of weather.
So what’s happening on Lost?
MF: We’re going to catch up with the flash forwards this year and then it’s going to be really interesting to see how time is structured in season five. But we will have closed on two points – the finale of last year where you had that juxtaposition of Jack on the island feeling like he’d finally accomplished a rescue, and this future where he’s desperate and at the pit of despair and he feels like he has to go back. We will eventually be back in the present.
Apparently, you’re the only actor on Lost who knows how the series will end. Is it tough keeping it a secret from your cast mates?
MF: Yes, it’s true. They understand I can’t talk about it, but sometimes they’ll ask hoping I’ll just blurt it out. Besides, having a secret is fun.
How do you pass the time on set?
MF: I play chess against the computer a lot. When I’m shooting in Hawaii, there’s a coffee shop not far from me and I have friends there now, who I’ve made over the game of chess. I go there a couple of mornings a week and we’ll play chess. It’s the greatest game.
You’re currently in the new flick Speed Racer. Were you a fan of the original cartoon as a kid?
MF: No. I never saw it. I grew up in a household where we didn’t really watch television. So the first step was watching a bunch of the episodes and getting a feel for what made that series so cultish and beloved in the 1960s.
Do you feel sexy wearing Racer X’s leather suit?
MF: Yeah. It’s pretty sexy. I think my wife thought so! The minute the mask dropped over my face people would change around me. It’s amazing because they can’t see your eyes and you can really manipulate that. You can mess with them in a big way.
Do you still have it?
MF: No, that would be really funny wouldn’t it? If I was wearing that around my house on the weekends.
What did your kids Kyle, 11 and Byron, six, think of your costume?
MF: They thought it was cool. They were sitting on the set, which was huge and I’ll never forget their faces when I walked in wearing the full gear. They both turned and did this double-take and went: ‘Daddy?’ So I’m like, ‘Yeah it’s me, don’t worry, it’s just me.’ When I walked on set to do a scene, my little boy turned to my wife, and said: ‘I want to be Racer X for Halloween next year.’
Have they seen your action figure?
MF: Yes, my sons might have been the first little boys to have a Racer X action figure. I’m cool in their eyes right now which is a pretty great feeling.
How does someone who grew up not watchingTV become such a big TV actor?
MF: My parents weren’t really anti-television. They were just pro-books. That’s the sort of thing my wife and I are trying to do with our kids too. We let them watch a little TV, and we certainly encourage movies. Movies are my favourite thing in the world. Nothing is more exciting than sitting in a cinema, waiting for the lights to dim to watch a movie I can’t wait to see. The kids can watch some shows like the ones on Disney, but I also think it’s really important for them to develop their own imaginations to entertain themselves.
Why do you think you’ve been so successful?
MF: I think luck and timing are, without question, a big part of my success in this business. But I would also say I don’t think there are too many actors in Hollywood who have done three pilots which have all aired on TV, with two of them continuing for six years. There’s a phrase that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. So I’m going to take some of the credit for it.
Are your kids aware their daddy is a big star?
MF: I don’t know what a big star means. I guess people at school make a little bit of a thing about it, but I don’t think they’re really that conscious of it.
Would you like to have more kids?
MF: Every now and then I think about having another one, and then my wife says, ‘Absolutely not’.
Are you a romantic guy?
MF: On a romantic scale of 1 to 10, I’m probably like a 3. I’m not mushy about all of that stuff.
Some of your cast mates in Lost have got in trouble for speeding. Were you ever a speeder?
MF: Yeah, I enjoy driving fast. I’ve just been lucky not to have been caught. That’s the running joke – if you get pulled over by the cops, you get killed off in the show.
Do you ever get road rage?
MF: No. I’ve always really enjoyed driving. I grew up in Wyoming where the roads are really open. There’s not a lot of traffic. There are speed limits, but there’s not a lot of enforcement of those speed limits. It’s always been that sense of freedom which I enjoy.
How are you going to spend your summer?
MF: Well, for me, it’s been two years pretty much nonstop work with no vacation. So, I’m going to spend a lot of time with the kids and my other immediate family members and friends – just people I really love. Basically, I’m going to spend a lot of time doing nothing, just hanging out.
MATTHEW’S REALITY CHECK
Have you ever said ‘Don’t you know who I am?’
No, I don’t believe I have. I don’t want people to know who I am.
When was the last time you ate a Big Mac?
I’m not big on fast food. I eat quite healthy, so probably never.
How much does a pint of milk cost?
Well, I must be a movie star because I have no idea!
What car do you drive?
I just have a little Acura that I zip around the island on.
Do you recycle?
Yes and no. Someone else actually does all of that for me.
Speed Racer is in cinemas now.
Source: www.sundaymirror.co.uk
LOST - FOX KEEPS LOST SECRET
LOST star MATTHEW FOX has been sworn to secrecy about the hit show's plot - as he's the only castmember who knows how the series will end.
The actor, who plays Dr. Jack Shephard in the show, admits his fellow stars hope he'll tell them what happens in the final episodes, which are set to be aired on TV in 2010.
But Fox insists he will never reveal the plot - because he enjoys keeping his special secret.
He says, "Yes, it's true. They understand I can't talk about it, but sometimes they'll ask, just hoping I'll blurt it out.
"Besides, having a secret is fun."
Source: www.contactmusic.com
The actor, who plays Dr. Jack Shephard in the show, admits his fellow stars hope he'll tell them what happens in the final episodes, which are set to be aired on TV in 2010.
But Fox insists he will never reveal the plot - because he enjoys keeping his special secret.
He says, "Yes, it's true. They understand I can't talk about it, but sometimes they'll ask, just hoping I'll blurt it out.
"Besides, having a secret is fun."
Source: www.contactmusic.com
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Lost's big question: why is this man so scary?
As the long-running plane-crash drama returns to the small screen, its sinister star, Michael Emerson, tells Michael Deacon he's as surprised by the plot twists as viewers are
In 2004, an American study suggested that watching a lot of television could reduce a child's attention span. Parents, help is at hand. Sit your offspring in front of Sky One at 9pm tomorrow. Because if there's a television drama that actually increases the attention span, it's Lost.
Michael Emerson
'I think it's the imaginations of viewers that make Ben scary', says Michael Emerson
The American thriller serial about plane-crash survivors stranded on a remote tropical island is about to reach its 80th episode. And still its mysteries are multiplying, getting ever more complex and strange. At first, viewers were asking, "Why did the plane crash? How will the survivors get home?" Now they're asking, "Who or what is the invisible and presumably malevolent spirit that lives in the hut in the jungle and answers (occasionally) to the name of Jacob?"
Keeping up with this tangle of riddles, exciting though it is, requires stamina. Happily for its producers, millions have it. In the US, Lost is watched by about 13 million people per episode; here, it's more than a million, which isn't bad for a programme available only on digital.
Tomorrow, the second half of season four begins. (The split was caused by the American television writers' strike.) Faithful viewers will tune in because they yearn for answers. But they'll also tune in for something else: television's scariest villain.
Michael Emerson plays Ben Linus. So scary is Ben that, when fans bump into Emerson in the street, they're scared of him, too.
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"People are guarded with me," says Emerson, who was nominated for an Emmy last year for his work on Lost; he won one in 2001 for his guest role in a legal drama called The Practice, in which he played a serial killer. "They tend to be not too chummy, and they don't invade my physical space much. 'Hello, Mr Emerson,' they say. And when they shake hands, they hold themselves at a slight distance. I think they're afraid I'm going to whip something out on them. What that might be, I don't know…"
Ben leads a ruthless gang called The Others, who lived on the island before the plane crashed; at present he's a captive of Locke (played by Terry Quinn), the most enigmatic of the plane-crash survivors. Yet even as a captive Ben seems threatening. Impressive, given his build: he's short, scrawny, rat-like. He looks as if he lost his eyebrows in a small explosion. He talks quietly, in a menacingly measured drawl… with lots of pauses and emphases… which make him sound as if he knows… everything.
Remarkably, Ben was originally written as a minor character. Emerson was hired to appear for only a few episodes, in season two. But so skin-tinglingly sinister was he during those episodes that the producers had a rethink and turned Ben into perhaps Lost's most important character.
"I think it's the imaginations of viewers that make Ben scary," says Emerson (who isn't at all scary himself; polite, precise and elegantly suited, he comes across like a nicer version of Frasier's Niles Crane).
"He's not an imposing figure, not an overwhelming personality - he runs in neutral gear a lot. We fear the things we don't know or can't figure out, so maybe he falls into that category." We'll be seeing plenty of this seemingly unknowable creature in the new episodes. Particularly in a setting new to Lost: London. Previously, all Lost's scenes have been shot on Hawaii or mainland America.
The reasons for shooting in London, I'm afraid, will remain unclear until we see the new episodes; the most Emerson will say is that "I don't know if it's a quality of light [the producers] are looking for, or maybe the weather…" But then, it's almost always impossible to squeeze upcoming storylines out of Lost's stars.
For one thing, they don't know much more about what's going to happen next than we do. Emerson says he's only one script ahead of the viewers, and that sometimes an actor will open the latest script and find that their character is dead. That's it; the first they know of it. Indeed, so secretive are Lost's producers that they don't even let their cleaners have keys to their office in Los Angeles. When the cleaners come in, the producers stand by watchfully to ensure that there's no sneaking a peek at their scripts.
There are critics, though, who no longer want to know what secrets those scripts contain. Their attention spans have been stretched further than they can bear. Too many mysteries, they grumble; not enough answers. And they're not prepared to wait until 2010 - when Lost will conclude - to find out what it all means.
Emerson says he sympathises, a little. "It has always been thus on Lost - more questions than answers. But if they're worried that it's a great tease, then I guess most yarns are a tease - Homer is a tease, Dickens is a tease. Hang on in there. There must be something pleasant about the journey along the way, and I think Lost offers some of those pleasures - at the same time as it strings us along. I don't think [the producers] are any more guilty of that now than they were three years ago."
(One of Lost's teases-in-chief, executive producer Damon Lindelof, promises that, by the end of the final season, all the plot's loose ends will be tied up. Hope we can trust him on that.)
Emerson is unsure how long he himself could survive on a remote island: "Are we talking hours or minutes?" He doesn't have many Boy Scout skills; in the Iowa town where he grew up, "the Boy Scouts were juvenile delinquents, so I didn't last long. I think there was such bad misbehaviour that the troop was broken up." Also, being in the Hawaiian jungle at night unnerves him; while filming there a few weeks ago, he was startled mid-scene by a rush of wild pigs, "large and crazy and semi-dangerous-looking".
Still, he's steeling himself. Only two more years of sudden pig attacks - and other, grander mysteries - to go.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
In 2004, an American study suggested that watching a lot of television could reduce a child's attention span. Parents, help is at hand. Sit your offspring in front of Sky One at 9pm tomorrow. Because if there's a television drama that actually increases the attention span, it's Lost.
Michael Emerson
'I think it's the imaginations of viewers that make Ben scary', says Michael Emerson
The American thriller serial about plane-crash survivors stranded on a remote tropical island is about to reach its 80th episode. And still its mysteries are multiplying, getting ever more complex and strange. At first, viewers were asking, "Why did the plane crash? How will the survivors get home?" Now they're asking, "Who or what is the invisible and presumably malevolent spirit that lives in the hut in the jungle and answers (occasionally) to the name of Jacob?"
Keeping up with this tangle of riddles, exciting though it is, requires stamina. Happily for its producers, millions have it. In the US, Lost is watched by about 13 million people per episode; here, it's more than a million, which isn't bad for a programme available only on digital.
Tomorrow, the second half of season four begins. (The split was caused by the American television writers' strike.) Faithful viewers will tune in because they yearn for answers. But they'll also tune in for something else: television's scariest villain.
Michael Emerson plays Ben Linus. So scary is Ben that, when fans bump into Emerson in the street, they're scared of him, too.
advertisement
"People are guarded with me," says Emerson, who was nominated for an Emmy last year for his work on Lost; he won one in 2001 for his guest role in a legal drama called The Practice, in which he played a serial killer. "They tend to be not too chummy, and they don't invade my physical space much. 'Hello, Mr Emerson,' they say. And when they shake hands, they hold themselves at a slight distance. I think they're afraid I'm going to whip something out on them. What that might be, I don't know…"
Ben leads a ruthless gang called The Others, who lived on the island before the plane crashed; at present he's a captive of Locke (played by Terry Quinn), the most enigmatic of the plane-crash survivors. Yet even as a captive Ben seems threatening. Impressive, given his build: he's short, scrawny, rat-like. He looks as if he lost his eyebrows in a small explosion. He talks quietly, in a menacingly measured drawl… with lots of pauses and emphases… which make him sound as if he knows… everything.
Remarkably, Ben was originally written as a minor character. Emerson was hired to appear for only a few episodes, in season two. But so skin-tinglingly sinister was he during those episodes that the producers had a rethink and turned Ben into perhaps Lost's most important character.
"I think it's the imaginations of viewers that make Ben scary," says Emerson (who isn't at all scary himself; polite, precise and elegantly suited, he comes across like a nicer version of Frasier's Niles Crane).
"He's not an imposing figure, not an overwhelming personality - he runs in neutral gear a lot. We fear the things we don't know or can't figure out, so maybe he falls into that category." We'll be seeing plenty of this seemingly unknowable creature in the new episodes. Particularly in a setting new to Lost: London. Previously, all Lost's scenes have been shot on Hawaii or mainland America.
The reasons for shooting in London, I'm afraid, will remain unclear until we see the new episodes; the most Emerson will say is that "I don't know if it's a quality of light [the producers] are looking for, or maybe the weather…" But then, it's almost always impossible to squeeze upcoming storylines out of Lost's stars.
For one thing, they don't know much more about what's going to happen next than we do. Emerson says he's only one script ahead of the viewers, and that sometimes an actor will open the latest script and find that their character is dead. That's it; the first they know of it. Indeed, so secretive are Lost's producers that they don't even let their cleaners have keys to their office in Los Angeles. When the cleaners come in, the producers stand by watchfully to ensure that there's no sneaking a peek at their scripts.
There are critics, though, who no longer want to know what secrets those scripts contain. Their attention spans have been stretched further than they can bear. Too many mysteries, they grumble; not enough answers. And they're not prepared to wait until 2010 - when Lost will conclude - to find out what it all means.
Emerson says he sympathises, a little. "It has always been thus on Lost - more questions than answers. But if they're worried that it's a great tease, then I guess most yarns are a tease - Homer is a tease, Dickens is a tease. Hang on in there. There must be something pleasant about the journey along the way, and I think Lost offers some of those pleasures - at the same time as it strings us along. I don't think [the producers] are any more guilty of that now than they were three years ago."
(One of Lost's teases-in-chief, executive producer Damon Lindelof, promises that, by the end of the final season, all the plot's loose ends will be tied up. Hope we can trust him on that.)
Emerson is unsure how long he himself could survive on a remote island: "Are we talking hours or minutes?" He doesn't have many Boy Scout skills; in the Iowa town where he grew up, "the Boy Scouts were juvenile delinquents, so I didn't last long. I think there was such bad misbehaviour that the troop was broken up." Also, being in the Hawaiian jungle at night unnerves him; while filming there a few weeks ago, he was startled mid-scene by a rush of wild pigs, "large and crazy and semi-dangerous-looking".
Still, he's steeling himself. Only two more years of sudden pig attacks - and other, grander mysteries - to go.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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