Watching Lost

Most Lost fans who follow interviews and news article about their favorite show,  know that even the actors themselves do not have any idea how the show ends. For Season 5, here’s an interesting account to how Cuse and Lindelof, producers of Lost, was able to fool their actors when shooting the final sequences of the season, in the hopes of keeping the ending a mystery…

If you think “Lost” is mind-bending to watch, try making it.

As the anticipation about tonight’s season five finale crests (Will Jack nuke the island? Will Kate steal Sawyer from Juliet? Will Hurley’s “The Empire Strikes Back” script see the light of day?), executive producer Carlton Cuse is hoping to keep the spoilers to a minimum.

For years, Harvard grad Cuse and partner Damon Lindelof have been engaging in all sorts of subterfuge to keep would be-spoilers from outing the hallmark twists.

“We write fake scenes for actors that audition for us and create fake call sheets about who is shooting with whom in what scene,” Cuse said from his Los Angeles office. “Last season, we shot three different actors in Locke’s coffin. We shot Josh Holloway and we shot Desmond to keep people guessing.”

This year, Cuse and crew employed similar tactics for the coda. Of course, Cuse won’t leak his tricks lest they, well, leak.

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Michael Emerson shares a few spoilers on the finale we are about to see today in this video from AP. The video contains some scenes and spoilers.

Matthew Fox graced Ellen’s talks show today and discussed our favorite mind-boggling series…what else? He also talked about flying (he’s studying to get his pilot license).

An interesting story from the SFGate and the University of Michigan “graduates” of the Dharma Initiative…

Many know of the University of Michigan through its famous alumni — Madonna, Gerald Ford, Arthur Miller. And … Gregory House, and Gerald and Karen DeGroot. The first three names are really well-known in the fields of public policy, music and theater. The last three aren’t real at all.

House, the lead character on the Fox medical drama of the same name, is a Michigan medical school graduate, and the DeGroots are Michigan doctoral candidates who founded the mysterious Dharma Initiative at the center of the ABC serial "Lost."

Such tie-ins allow TV and film productions to be more authentic while at the same time providing universities with free advertising and the chance to up their coolness quotient. "It’s fun for everyone — alumni and students — to see their university pop up in film," said Lee Doyle, who heads up the University of Michigan’s film office. And while that may be, it sometimes can be serious business for Doyle and others who hold the equivalent job at major universities. They have their school’s reputation to consider in weighing whether to allow it to be associated with a TV show or movie.

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The Lost actor appeared on David Letterman’s talk show last week to talk about the show’s 100th episode. The interview is pretty much tame and least bit funny.

From People Magazine:

Lost heartthrob Josh Holloway and wife Yessica welcomed a daughter on April 9 in Oahu, PEOPLE has exclusively confirmed. They named their baby girl Java Kumala Holloway.

“Dad and Mom are absolutely thrilled,” a source close to the actor, 39, tells PEOPLE. “Everyone’s happy and healthy.” This is the first child for the couple, who have been married since 2004.

Holloway’s Lost costar Daniel Dae Kim knew the actor would enjoy fatherhood. “He’ll be an incredible dad,” Kim told PEOPLE in February. “When you talk to him about his baby, his face completely lights up.”

Rebecca Mader gets mad at allegations she was responsible for her Lost character, Charlotte’s age changes. Young Charlotte was spotted in a scene on Lost, two episodes ago. That scene was set in 1974, making her about 36-37 years old, but the Charlotte as we know it is only 28.

In a Lost podcast with producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the two explained that Mader changed the script insinuating she had a “diva moment” —- “because she did not really want to brand herself as 37, which is what she would have had to been had we stuck to the initial script.”

In response, the actress wrote this on her Facebook page, clearly hurt about the allegations:

I’m Pissed Damon and Carlton lied about me on the most recent PODCAST. The timeline error was their mistake and they are making it out to be my fault. NOT COOL! I just wanted to say that I NEVER changed my characters age on the set of LOST as Damon and Carlton accused me of on the most recent PODCAST. Charlotte Lewis was ALWAYS meant to be 28 and born in 1979. It was written in the script EP #402!!!!!!

The producers were quick to send in their apologies to Rebecca, and admit it was indeed their mistake:

Rebecca is absolutely right and we apologize to both her and the entire fan community for screwing up the story [...] Our first mistake was the timeline gaffe, but the much more significant one was wrapping Rebecca up in this when she had nothing to do with it. Not her fault on any level. It was our bad. One hundred percent. We will say as much in a very special “Eating Crow” edition of our Podcast tomorrow. Speaking of which, what a wonderful world we live in where we can make a comment in a Podcast that triggers a response on someone’s Facebook page and that triggers a mea culpa on someone else’s blog. Ah, technology.

This is how it happened (c/o EW):

There were a gazillion questions about the timeline discrepancy in that young Charlotte clearly exists in 1974, but wasn’t supposed to be born until 1979, per a single line of dialogue courtesy of Ben back in episode #402. When we inquired as to how this happened, the intel came back that we used Rebecca Mader’s birthday, July 2, 1979 because she was actually eight years YOUNGER than the character as originally conceived/scripted. We misremembered this as having come from Rebecca herself on the set, but in fact, it came several days earlier when our continuity expert Gregg Nations pointed it out and suggested using Rebecca’s actual birthday for Charlotte. And so, the mistake was OURS. Rebecca’s production draft DID have the date as being 1979.

Even the ones working on Lost gets themselves so confused at times. Hah!

Former FRIENDS star MATTHEW PERRY is desperate to return to TV - and land a role in drama LOST.

The funnyman, who played Chandler Bing in the hit sitcom, admits he’s hooked on the desert island drama and wouldn’t hesitate to take a part if it was offered to him.

He says, “I want to be on that show so bad, but people would be like, ‘What’s Chandler doing on the island?’ So it isn’t going to happen.

“But I am truly addicted to the show. I even follow the story lines online.”

Source

Will Lost lose Elizabeth Mitchell to another science fiction series?

Reports say the actress has scored a guest starring stint on the upcoming remake of the 80’s series, V. While the character she plays is still not known, the actress is confirmed in the cast that will also star Scott Wolf, Morena Baccarin and Joel Gretsch.

This guest appearance though will in no way mean Elizabeth’s Juliet on Lost will soon be killed off the series, proving earlier rumors that a major character will be dead by the end of this season. Shooting schedules on Lost allow other actors to take projects of their Lost schedule most of the time. And since V is still a young show (alright, a remake) whose possibility of being picked up to series is still unknown. With Elizabeth’s appearance only on a couple of episodes, her inclusion does not confirm Juliet’s demise on the series.

Besides, Lost is on its last leg next year, anyway, I think it’s good for the actors of the series to start branching out and becoming more visible in other TV projects. I’d sure like to follow them wherever they go after Lost next.

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E!Online reports we’re going to lose a well-loved character again. Someone is going to die, and that someone has just been told about it recently. Who will it be? Clues are provided after the cut…

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There would be some very interesting storylines for Ben in upcoming episodes on Lost and Michael Emerson talks to TV Guide to reveal some details of it.

Possible spoilers after the cut…

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Scoop on Island Reunions, Ben’s Revenge and more!

Scoop on Jin’s return & possible romances!

Daniel Dae Kim dropped by The View yesterday. Here is the video of it. Some of the things he mentioned — He says he has to read the script of Lost these days a couple of times to understand to process it. He also says his mom is so affected if his character gets hurt on Lost.

Watch it:

He’s quite the eloquent person, isn’t he?

Incidentally, here is the promo photo of Jin, which was only released this week, when it was revealed on the show that his character was still very much alive.

Two-time dad Daniel Dae Kim had some really nice words to say about his Lost co-star Josh Holloway, whose wife is expecting this year. This would be Josh’s first baby and Daniel, believes he will make a great dad.

Speaking before People Magazine, the Korean actor has this to say:

As a father of two, Lost star Daniel Dae Kim knows a thing or two about parenthood – and he predicts that his co-star Josh Holloway “will be an incredible dad.” “He’s a very sweet sensitive man,” Kim says of Holloway, who is best known as Lost’s sarcastic, shirtless rebel Sawyer, and who, in his real life, is expecting his first child with wife Yessica. “When you talk to him about his baby, his face completely lights up,” adds Kim. “It’s really heartwarming to see that he and Yessica are just completely ready and can’t wait.”

As for his own family, Kim says they may stay in Hawaii where Lost is filmed, even after the show wraps.  “When we first got here it was like paradise camp,” says Kim, who’s married and has two sons, ages 12 and 7. “More than any of the other cast we’re giving serious consideration to staying here, at least through high school. It’s really great for family.”

Daniel also talks about his character, Jin’s resurgence on the show, in this interview.

Here are some scans from the February issue of Entertainment Weekly. The magazine goes all out on their Lost coverage for this month.

A video interview to this shoot is also available… watch:

Thanks to Peter for the tip and scans.