To read what both of the Flight 815 survivors had to say at the LOST Season Two DVD Launch Party, continue reading!
Josh Holloway Interview:
September 5, 2006 - Like many of his fellow cast members, Josh Holloway was a virtual unknown when he first appeared on Lost. With an irresistible bad-boy role like Sawyer, however, he quickly became one of the fan's favorite characters - the kind of guy that women wanted and men wanted to be. Two seasons later, he's still around, and seemingly in no danger of disappearing off of the Lost radar.
IGN DVD: Compared to Season One, how would you characterize or differentiate your experience working on Season Two of Lost?
Josh Holloway: It was completely different. The first year, I was a lot more nervous to start with. I was trying to understand the character and figure out a way to find his humanity while keeping him hard, but really working that line the first year. The second year I really felt comfortable in his skin, and then it became a challenge of I'd never been in the position of slowly deteriorating health, so that was a large part of last year. I had a bullet [in me] and I had to slowly go down, down, down, but I felt completely comfortable as Sawyer so I didn't spend as much time on the script with it. I went with it. It was a lot more instinctual work in the second year.
IGN: Is this the longest job you've had as an actor?
Holloway: Yes. They still want me. It's ridiculous.
IGN: We hear you're either going to end up with a new girlfriend or looking for love this season, right?
Holloway: Oh, God, let it be a new girlfriend. Don't let him soften up and start looking for love. Actually, that would be fun too. I'm looking forward to exploring whatever way they want to do.
IGN: Evangeline Lilly said that the hardest part of 'picking a suitor' is that she's going to work less with one of the guys she likes so much.
Holloway: I doubt that for long. We'll still be thrown together. One of us will be nagging the other.
IGN: Is the island starting to get overpopulated with all of the new characters and situations?
Holloway: Isn't it? It's getting crowded on there. We better start staking out real estate. I have beach property that someone is going to buy off of me in no time.
IGN: Does it surprise you that the show has taken on a life of its own, producing conspiracy theories and hypotheses by fans?
Holloway: No. I'm happy that they do. Thank God. I'm just settling and I don't want to go anywhere. I'm loving what's going on with the show and we live here now and we're settled in. I'm fishing a lot and I have a boat. So I love it and I hope the fans love the second season DVD. I find that a lot of fans have been waiting for it because they're like, 'I got Lost mid-season so I quit watching it.' I'm like, 'Come on.' They're like, 'Yeah. So I'm waiting for the DVD.' So there are so many fans out there waiting for the DVD.
IGN: Do you have any hazing rituals you plan to inflict on the new cast members?
Holloway: Oh, Lost pretty much takes care of that for you. As soon as you get out there they turn on the rain tracks and throw mud at them. So I'll think about that. We haven't done that, but if we can find something fun we could do some good stuff.
IGN: One of the best features on the DVD is the 'World According to Sawyer' featurette. What is your favorite 'Sawyerism' so far?
Holloway: Wow. I don't know. Oh, I liked when he said to Jorge [Garcia] that his ranch [dressing] disorder was going to end up on the coconut internet. I thought that was pretty funny. The lead item on the coconut internet.
IGN: When you get each new script do you worry at all that you might not survive it before you read it?
Holloway: I will still, but that happens in waves. When your character gets in a precarious situation which he is now, he's captured, but I wouldn't figure that they would do it right off of the bat. So, yes, that happens about every fourth script. I'm feeling the odds now and so, yeah, that does come into play.
IGN: As fun as we're sure it is to kiss Evangeline, do you ever wish you got any make-out scenes with any of the other female cast members like you did with Michelle Rodriguez?
Holloway: Yeah. I'm wondering where they're going to go with that because I love working with Evangeline, but come on, Sawyer is still a free agent and they should bring as many as they can bring. He's game. He has a lot of love to spare, but we'll see. Evie is cool though and I do love working with her always. We have a great time on set and so however they go with it.
Daniel Dae Kim Interview:
August 31, 2006 - Despite having almost no English dialogue whatsoever (and what little he did have was in a dream sequence), Daniel Dae Kim has made an indelible impression on ABC's Lost, where he plays the conflicted husband Jin. Thankfully that roiling conflict does not follow him off screen: when IGN caught up with him at the launch party for the Lost Season Two DVD release, he was enthusiastic and articulate as he answered questions about the past, present and future of his character.
IGN DVD: Your character was the most complete and developed last season. What do you think Season Three holds for you?
Daniel Dae Kim: I never heard that about my storyline before but it's something to ponder. But yes, there was some nice point of rest at the end of last season for Jin and Sun. They didn't end on a conflicting note so I guess you could say there was some kind of plateau there. But they say the drama is conflict so Season Three probably has a lot more conflict in store for them. And you know, I'm looking forward to seeing what direction their relationship goes in.
IGN: A lot of characters' flashbacks are based on guilt and maybe that's why they're on this island. What do you think your character did to make him guilty?
Kim: In his history, he did some questionable things in the service of his father-in-law so I'm sure there are some things to be guilty about and I think he's looking for redemption as most of these characters are.
IGN: And do you think we'll see that in Season Three?
Kim: That's a good question and not for me to answer (laughs). I'm sure we'll get a glimpse of it and I'm sure we'll see some things that will throw him off that redemption so it's a mixed bag, we'll see.
IGN: How much input have you tried to contribute in terms of feeling that maybe you know the character more or better than the writers do in the way he acts?
Kim: I think the writers are pretty responsive to who we are as people in our relationships on the island, as actors, and I think it works to everyone's advantage when they're sensitive to it. I also know that as actors, we have felt comfortable enough to go and talk to them about things that they enjoy and don't enjoy about the character, directions they'd like them to go so I'd like to think that it's a nice two-way street.
IGN: Is there anything you want your character to do that he hasn't done yet?
Kim: I think it would be nice for Jin to see how he does when he tries to integrate himself into the group. He spent a lot of the first couple of seasons being an outsider to the group; he didn't learn the language, he was possessive of his wife and very suspicious of outsiders. So after all this time on the island now, he's starting to open up to people and I'm curious to see how his relationships blossom.
IGN: Do you have a preference in the flashback section or island section in terms of what part of the acting you enjoy more?
Kim: That's a good question. The interesting thing about Lost in the first season was that we learned a lot about these people in flashback by flashback and by in large, we were surprised. But as we go into Season Three, it's harder to surprise people with the characters that have been on the island since Season One. I think our writers will do an excellent job of still doing that, but at the same time, now we know their background and can kind of guess how they'll respond and act on the island, so I'm looking forward to seeing how all the people on the island will get along because now we know all of them.
IGN: Do you have a favorite character besides Jin?
Kim: I really don't. Somebody asked me that earlier, but I don't. I look at all of us as parts of a whole of the show because it's so dense mythologically and thematically there are so many things going on that it's hard to pull one person out and say this is what I like, because it's all part of the show as a whole.
Posted by on 06 Sep 2006 at 05:01 | Lost News
