Kiele Sanches who plays/played Nikki on Lost recently stopped by the Jimmy Kimmel studio to talk about her character’s sudden demise, her career and breastfeeding old men.
Have to say, strangest cast interview yet!
There is a little interview with Evangeline Lilly over at Esquire. Besides talking about the possibility of playing Wonder Woman, Evie talks a bit about her life and answers a few questions about Lost:
ESQ: The show isn’t afraid to kill off major characters. Worried you might be next?
Evangeline: I feel like where they’ve taken the story, I don’t think they’re finished with Kate yet.
ESQ: You realize you just painted a target on your forehead.
Evangeline: I know! No one’s above it. Got that? Nobody. [Laughs.]
ESQ: So I’m told that the series will end with a scientist informing the survivors that they’re part of a government experiment.
Evangeline: I don’t think so.
ESQ: Wait, you’re saying the Internet is wrong?
Evangeline: I think that would be so unfair to our viewers. They’ve invested in this idea, and to cop out and make it something as stupid and simple as we’re all dead in purgatory or something, I think I’d get up and kick a hole through my television I’d be so pissed off.
ESQ: Admit it, the writers have no idea where this thing is going.
Evangeline: They do! I remember when we were filming the pilot, [cocreator] J.J. Abrams was talking about the idea of a hatch. They told us they had roughly mapped out the first six seasons.
A new edition of the famous official Lost podcast has been unleashed:
Executive Producer Carlton Cuse and fellow writers Adam Kitsis and Eddie Horowitz expose “Exposé” and look forward to “Left Behind” (4/4/07). Elizabeth Mitchell discusses the challenges of playing Juliet.
Lost co-creator, executive producer and writer Damon Lindelof talked to TVGuide about the deaths of Nikki and Paulo:
“People hated them before they even opened their mouths to say anything significant because it felt like they were crashing the party,” exec producer Damon Lindelof acknowledges of the characters who were abruptly introduced last fall. “The easiest thing would have been to just write them out and forget they ever happened, like the cougar on Season 2 of 24. But that’s not Lost. We should at least own up to it.”
Like most of you, I never really liked Nikki and Paulo. It wasn’t the fault of actors Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro who did a pretty good job, but due to a bad introduction (supposedly caused by a cut sex scene between the two that lead to a rewrite of their introduction) they never felt like part of the story.
I can almost guarantee that Nikki and Paulo were not part of the original plan, so hopefully this will be a lesson for the suits at ABC that messing too much with the creative vision and introducing new characters without much thought is never a good idea.
Unlike Locke, I hope that what is buried stays buried. At least until the zombie season. Of course, they were buried alive, so maybe they’re back playing ping-pong next week….
Thanks to DarkUFO for the tip
Many of us were confused when Nikki and Paulo suddenly popped up on the Lost island. Who are they? Where do they come from? Why is Paulo always going to the bathroom?
Tonight’s new Lost episode, “Exposé”, which is centered around the couple, will hopefully show us more about who they are and why ended up on the mysterious island.
The official description of the Lost episode “Exposé” is as follows:
Hurley begins to suspect that Sawyer may be involved in an island mystery surrounding two fellow survivors, and Sun learns the truth about her past kidnapping attempt by “The Others,” on “Lost,” WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
I got a mail from the guys at Wizard Entertainment earlier today. They’ve published a great interview with Lost executive producer and director Jack Bender.
Although Jack’s answers are quite long, it’s very interesting to read about the process of creating the Lost episodes. The interview also contains a lot of cool Lost trivia while staying away from spoilers, so I highly recommend taking a look at it.
Here is a short excerpt from the interview:
How difficult is it for you and your crew to film all of a particular set or scene in one chunk? I have to imagine that with the flashbacks and such, shooting in sequence can pose a problem.
Jack Bender: Well, you always try to do as much in continuity as you can when you’re filmmaking, but sometimes we can do that, and sometimes we don’t get to do that.
For instance, we’re shooting an episode right now, and it’s pilot season. So one of our recurring characters who’s not a series regular is doing a pilot because we don’t have him contracted for every episode. We don’t own him, and so we have to shoot part of his flashback story around his schedule. I did an episode that was on recently that was about Desmond and his whole flash-forward experience. It was in England, and Penny was in it. We played with time and answered the question of Desmond in and out of time and all of that. Well, our actress, Sonya Walger, who plays Penny, was doing a series for HBO, and she was completely unavailable when we were doing that episode. So I had to do the whole episode and shoot all of Desmond’s flashbacks, like in the bar and everything else, during the course of those 10 days of shooting that episode and then three weeks later, or maybe it was even a month later, we had to come back and shoot the scenes in two days with Penny. So sometimes that’s actor-driven and schedule-driven. Certainly we attempt to shoot all the flashbacks together if we can.
In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, actor Terry O’Quinn who plays John Locke on Lost got the opportunity to discuss Locke as a character and his actions in the latest Lost episodes:
When Locke boarded Oceanic Flight 815, he was in a wheelchair. But when the plane crashed, he could mysteriously walk, and that seemed to bond him to the island forever. Wednesday’s episode finally revealed to viewers how he became paralyzed: His con artist of a father, who years ago manipulated Locke into giving him a kidney, pushed him out a high-rise window, hoping to kill him. Then it did what “Lost” does. It delivered another whopper: Locke’s father is tied up and gagged on “Other” territory.
“That was a big ‘What?!’ ” O’Quinn said, describing how he felt when he first read the script. “It leaves you with a big question mark, but there was plenty revealed in this episode too.”
Terry also says that he understands the audience’s frustration with schedule changes and “unanswered questions”:
“If I take Locke’s story individually and just follow it from its beginning point to now, to me it’s cohesive and it’s understandable and it’s interesting,” O’Quinn said. “But because there are so many people, it’s very patchy. It comes in fits and starts, and that’s tough for the fans of the show to have to work to tie everything together.”
Lost executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse also talked a bit about Locke:
Fans have surmised that Locke was named after 17th century philosopher John Locke, who theorized that the mind is a tabula rasa (the title of the third episode of the series) — that is, individuals are born with a clean slate, without innate mental content, and build knowledge from their experiences.
Dead right, Lindelof said. The fictional Locke had lived a life marked by pain and disappointment until he regained his ability to walk on the island, which he interprets as a sign that destiny brought him there to give him a second chance. In this way, Cuse said, the character is a springboard to explore the issue of faith versus empiricism.
“The very original idea for Locke was that we needed a character who was going to have some sort of mystical quotient going on with him,” Lindelof said. “He was going to be very mysterious and quiet. This plane crash is the best thing that’s ever happened to this guy.”
Damon also clarified what ’secret’ Locke told Walt in the Lost pilot episode:
Locke and Walt are about to play backgammon and Locke explains the game: “Two players, two sides. One is light, one is dark.” The scene ends with Locke asking, “Walt, do you want to know a secret?”
“That hook coming out of the pilot wasn’t just that secret that he told Walt — that he used to be in a wheelchair and now he’s mysteriously healed,” Lindelof said. “That’s everything the show is. Do you want to know a secret? And cutting away before you actually answer that question.”
So does Terry O’Quinn know if Locke is the key to solving Lost’s secrets?
“I don’t know how central he is, but … it usually means something when he’s around. I think it’s because of the deeper quality in him. Of this group of characters, he’s the one that’s actively looking for an explanation, not just a way home.”
The entire Lost interview which contains some minor spoilers from Damon and Carlton, but is a highly recommended read, can be found at the LA Times.
Jewreview.net has a nice little interview with Naveen Andrews who plays Sayid on Lost.
J.J. is promising a bigger ending this year than last year. Have you seen anything?
Naveen Andrews: It’s like magicians, isn’t it? ‘For my next trick…’ I hope so, bigger and better; that would be nice.
Are you happier now with the balance of the season?
Naveen Andrews: It’s nice to be featured, yeah.
Was it frustrating then before?
Naveen Andrews: Well, for the original cast, I think that we have to be relatively stoic about the experience; there will always be that first season that we did. That will always be there and I’m very proud of it and I have it out there with the work that I’m the most proud of and they can never take that away. They’re the writers and we’re not; I couldn’t presume to write this show. And it’s tough to be a writer and whatever direction they chose to take the show in they will.
Don’t forget that Naveen is starring in Robert Rodriguez’s and Quentin Tarantino’s new movie project “Grindhouse” which opens April 6 in the states.
The latest official Lost podcast with Damon and Carlton has been released!
03.26.07 – Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse expose “The Man From Tallahassee” and preview “Exposé” (3/28/07). Jorge Garcia and Josh Holloway talk about playing ping pong behind the scenes.
Listen to the Lost podcast at ABC.com
The latest Lost character backstories, previously aired flashbacks re-cut into chronological order, have been published by ABC.
The latest part of Sawyer’s flashback as well as the first Sun & Jin backstory video can be seen bellow. The rest of the new videos, as well as the old character backstories are available on ABC.com