Lost: actors have questions, writers have answers…
By fred | March 5, 2008
When it comes to Lost, I’m sure you’ve got plenty of questions. You do, I do, we all do, everyone watching the show does, probably people writing it do as well. And if the very own actors of the show actually do have questions themselves, they’re more lucky than us (or are they?) because they got to ask Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof a bunch of them.
Of course Cuse & Lindelof didn’t really gave away anything, except maybe about Sawyer’s hair, but much like Jack’s tattoos I doubt that topic had people filled with questions. Be aware, though, it’s not completely spoiler-free, so if you don’t want to know who Jacob is anything about what’s coming up and when, you should better bookmark this and read it only after the season finale.
Jorge Garcia (Hurley): Is Ben in the coffin ?
Carlton Cuse: Come on, Jorge!
Damon Lindelof: Seriously! [To Cuse] He’s just trying to make sure it’s not him. It’s process of elimination. The next question is, “Is it Michael?” [Laughs]
Carlton Cuse: Before the end of the year, you will know who’s in the coffin.
Damon Lindelof: And Jorge will definitely know before anyone else.
Yunjin Kim (Sun): Is Aaron actually one of the Oceanic 6 ?
Carlton Cuse: We’re not officially saying yet. We want the audience to engage in an active debate about who the Oceanic 6 are.
Damon Lindelof: Following [Sayid's] episode, we got several inquiries we weren’t anticipating about, ‘Is Ben a member of the Oceanic 6?’ He could’ve assumed the identity of somebody on the plane [with] no surviving family members. Who the actual six are is very much in play through the end of the [March 13th] episode. We’ll confirm or deny after that.
Josh Holloway (Sawyer): Is it Jack’s turn with Kate ?
Carlton Cuse: [Laughs] That doesn’t sound very romantic, but I guess we get the underlying meaning. The Jack-Kate situation remains unresolved and probably will be for a while.
Damon Lindelof: We will say we haven’t seen the last of Sawyer and Kate this season. Not by a long shot.
Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond): It’s 2004 on the boat. What year is it in Penny’s world ? What year is it when the Oceanic 6 get home ?
Damon Lindelof: What’s fundamentally interesting about all the time-jumping is that we want it to make sense when people watch the show 10 years from now. We don’t want it to seem dated. So it’s not really about what year it is in the outside world, it’s about how many years have elapsed between the time that we’re watching on the island and the flash-forwards. That’s one of the fun games the audience is playing: “Gee, Aaron looks like he’s about 18 months old. What does that mean, and how old was he when they got off the island?”
Carlton Cuse: There are some growth issues when you go on or off the island. But I can’t say more about that.
Damon Lindelof: You’ve already said enough.
Evangeline Lilly (Kate): Did Michael reach the mainland ? Go home ? Come back to rescue us ?
Carlton Cuse: The good news is that Evie will get all of her answers in [the March 20th] episode.
Damon Lindelof: Well, most of them.
Carlton Cuse: Those questions form the basis for that episode. Evie should be somewhat happy.
Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet): Why did Juliet become such a badass ? Who trained her — the Others ?
Carlton Cuse: I think there was probably some martial arts in New Otherton.
Damon Lindelof: She probably went out shooting with Friendly back in the day, which is why she can handle a firearm so well. But the real inspiration for Juliet being a badass was Elizabeth herself. When she read for the part, she had this huge cast on her arm and was talking about her days of kickboxing….
Carlton Cuse: And then she beat Damon up.
Josh Holloway (Sawyer): Sawyer needs a freakin’ haircut! Since I’m living with Hurley, can he cut my hair ?
Damon Lindelof: [Laughs] That episode’s a casualty of the strike.
Carlton Cuse: But yeah, Josh can have a haircut.
Damon Lindelof: Josh might’ve forgotten, but this is a recurring request from him. He’s like, ‘My hair’s getting long, can’t Kate cut it?’ So we did an episode [in Season 2] where Kate cuts his hair. I love how Josh chooses who’s going to be his barber at any given time!
Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond): Did Jack’s flash-forward in the third-season finale take place after the events of Sayid’s most-recent episode ?
Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof: Yes.
Naveen Andrews (Sayid): Damon spoke once about going back into Sayid’s childhood. It didn’t sound like bulls–t at the time. Has he abandoned that?
Damon Lindelof: I love how he phrases it — “It didn’t sound like bulls–t at the time” — [implying], “But it certainly seems like bulls–t now.” [Laughs] It’s certainly something we still want to do. It wouldn’t necessarily be an entire flashback based in his childhood, but there may be significant things that happened when Sayid was a kid that we need to reveal.
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