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Life after 'Lost'

Mar 10

2011

10:00 AM ET

by Dan Snierson

You let go. Really, you did. When Lost ascended to the TV afterlife last May, you returned to your normal life, paying those overdue bills, mowing your overgrown lawn, even resuming communication with those who couldn’t understand why you wanted to own a jar of Dharma peanut butter. But perhaps somewhere in the recesses of your brain, as you saw an Elizabeth Mitchell or a Daniel Dae Kim pop up on your flatscreen, you started thinking about our dear castaways. Where are those Lost actors now? Do you they miss working on the show? And is it true that Josh Holloway cut his hair?

Those burning questions — and more — are answered in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. We interviewed a bunch of cast members, including Matthew Fox, Josh Holloway, and Elizabeth Mitchell, and caught up the men in charge of the show, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, as well as co-creator J.J. Abrams. The good news? No one is currently roaming the halls of a psychiatric facility in a bathrobe, repeatedly chanting six numbers. Some more good news? Several familiar faces — such as Jorge Garcia, Michael Emerson, and Henry Ian Cusick — are plotting their return to series television by starring in drama pilots. Another has landed on the stage: Mr. Fox is currently in London, starring in a new Neil LaBute play titled In a Forest Dark and Deep. “A play in the West End of London is something I’ve always dreamed of doing,” he tells EW, noting that “it’s been my goal after Lost to get into a situation where I’m doing a film here and there and a play here and there — that broad of a structure.”

Fox isn’t the only former cast member exploring new ground in Europe: Holloway recently filmed scenes for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, starring Tom Cruise. While he can’t spill too much about his role, he does hint, “I’m definitely doing some ass-kicking.” And because he’s down for all kinds of challenges in this next phase of his career, he’s guest-starring in the paintball-themed season finale of Community. “There’s a couple of good one-liners in there,” he says. “I hope I pull them off!” (Fingers tightly crossed for a Troy and Abed in the Morning segment with Holloway.)
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/03/10/life-after-lost-fox-holloway/

'Lost' star Evangeline Lilly: Children's book author?

by Adam Markovitz

Lost looker Evangeline Lilly dropped by Craig Ferguson’s couch last night for some after-hours chit chat. And after covering a few non-kid-friendly topics (Ferguson’s snake-shape mug, the potential removability of Lilly’s dress, etc.), she shifted gears to give a sneak peek of a children’s book she’s writing called Squickerwonkers (we’re guessing at the spelling there). Here’s a sample:

“The name is Squickerwonker, perhaps unknown to you. But that’s it, Squickerwonker. And here’s what Squickerwonkers do…”

Of course, Lilly didn’t spend six years on that island for nothing: She ends her little recitation with a Lost-worthy cliffhanger about the Squickerwonker’s “horrible secret.”

Are they actually smoke monsters? Or maybe they exist in an alternate universe? Lilly says she doesn’t have any firm publishing plans yet for the book, so I guess we’ll all just have to hang in there for a while. But you know what? The whole thing actually sounds kind of cute. We’d totally pre-order a copy for ourselves our appropriately aged cousins next Christmas.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/06/03/evangeline-lilly/

Doc Jensen: 'Lost:' The one scene you MUST watch before tomorrow's premiere

by Jeff Jensen

One more day until revelation. Or maybe “The Book of Revelation,” if the final season of Lost is as apocalyptic as so many fans have theorized, with all its capricious deities and judgmental monsters and damned souls. The fan base is galvanized. Last night in Hawaii, thousands of people turned out to meet the cast and watch the first hour of the two-hour premiere (Feb. 2, 9 PM and on ABC) on the beach in Oahu. The initial reaction from fans via Twitter have been raves. “The first hr of S6 is INCREDIBLE. Will say no more,” tweeted Lost blogger Jo Garfein, aka jopinionated (@jopinionated). Said the illustrious team of Jay and Jack of “The Lost Podcast with Jay & Jack” (@jayandjack): “Whew what a premiere … I must say for the people that doubted the powers that be, the premiere was awesome!”

For anyone who still feels they need a refresher to get prepped for Season 6, I (shamelessly) recommend Entertainment Weekly’s current cover story, written by yours truly, designed to get you caught up on where we last left off. Want to spend the next 24 hours cramming with 10 essential episodes? You can view our selections (and rationale behind our choices) here. Some programming alerts: Get ready for an onslaught of Lost stuff from us over the next 48 hours. Tomorrow, we’ll have a cool new gallery for you, a new Doc Jensen column in which I explain why my “Final Theory of Lost” is my “final theory” of Lost, and the season premiere of “Totally Lost,” the weekly webshow about Lost that I co-host with Dan Snierson. On Wednesday, I’ll have what is sure to be an epic recap of the premiere, plus we’ll also be posting selections from an interview with Lost exec producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse in which they will tackle some burning questions about the premiere.

Before I let you go, something interesting. If you’ve already read my cover story, then you know I spoke with Damon and Carlton, and as it happens, during the interview, I asked them about a scene from the Lost pilot back in 2004 that got a lot of fresh attention and analysis during the hiatus in the aftermath of the Jacob-Man In Black sequence in the Season 5 finale. The pilot scene, of course, is the moment when John Locke explains to Walt the significance of backgammon—a scene that now plays like foreshadowing of the Jacob-Man In Black revelation.



I asked Damon Lindelof, who co-wrote the pilot with JJ Abrams, if the backgammon scene was an attempt to plant a flag for the series end game. This is what he said:

“We can’t rewrite history and say that at the time the pilot was being constructed we were using phrases like “The Man In Black” and “Jacob,” but we can say that the overriding theme of The Island and what an endgame might look like — and that Locke was the character that was tapped into this almost instantly — was all sort of calibrated. Looking back on that scene, its intention at the time that it was written and its intention today is exactly the same, which is to basically set the stakes for the entire series. At the time that we wrote it, we didn’t think that there was going to be an episode two. At the time that we wrote it, it was a conversation about the good and evil internal in the people themselves. But obviously, as the show grew and blossomed out, that same conversation grew to encompass the nature of The Island and The Island’s affect on those people.”

Intrigued? Teased? Can’t freakin’ wait to get this season started already? I’m with you, friends. Looking forward to taking the journey with you.

Namaste! Doc Jensen
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/02/01/lost-one-scene/

“LOST” in Kaimuki

October 4th, 2008

It was a late night for “LOST” at Sacred Heart Academy in Kaimuki. “LOST” spotter Joel posted a couple of photos and sent Hawaii Blog this report from the scene:

“They had a massive set of lights set up and Ben, Desmond and a woman were in the scene (I think it may have been Sun as she had long, straight, dark hair). I did get a chance to stand around and watch them film the scene. The woman and Ben were talking when Desmond came from the right of the scene. In a loud voice, he said, ‘What are you doing here?!’”

The woman does indeed look like Sun, and the scene does seem to fit in with the overall “rounding up the Oceanic 6″ theme of the past several location shoots. But it’s interesting that they’re connecting with Desmond, who we last saw (filming wise) in the Philippines.

Sacred Hearts and its Romanesque architecture could be standing in for any number of far-flung locations, but I’d guess not Southeast Asia.

For Photos

http://www.hawaiiweblog.com/2008/10/04/lost-in-kaimuki

“LOST” on Stormy Seas

SPOILER ALERT! When the sun goes down on Friday, most people rejoice at the end of the work week. Today, however, sunset meant things were just getting started for the “LOST” production crew. They commandeered the swimming pool at Kaneohe District Park, converting it into a film-studio-grade water tank. The floor of the pool was blacked out, black canvas was hung around the perimiter, and they also put up giant fans, crane-mounted lights, and huge rain rigs and pumps. (More setup photos here.) Filming continued all through the night.

At least two scenes were filmed, both in stormy seas. The first involved a canoe, and it was an all-star crew: Josh Holloway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Ken Leung, Rebecca Mader, and Jeremy Davies. And at the helm? I’m pretty sure it was Terry O’Quinn. They were rocked by waves, drenched by rain, blasted by wind, and blinded by lightning. Sawyer calls for them to go back. But then they see or hear something, and begin paddling toward it.

The second scene involved a large red and black rescue raft. Similar to, but larger than, the raft that carried the Oceanic 6. And unlike with the canoe, none of the raft’s handful of passengers were recognizable. The rain and waves are cued again. Over the din of the equipment, the men and women argue… in French. Suddenly, one of them spots something in the distance. One man pulls out a flashlight, and two other men pull out paddles and start heading toward it.

Two floating, soaking wet groups of people, both buffeted by stormy seas, and both suddenly compelled to seek something in the water. Each other? Or something else?

There is, in fact, one last object floating in the sea (or pool, as it were). A large, thick, wooden door, splintered at the top, a long handle jutting out of the water. And on it, a man lay motionless.

Special thanks to Anthony and Kevin for their reports and to P. for the video.
http://www.hawaiiweblog.com/2008/09/27/lost-on-stormy-seas