Josh Holloway :: counting down Lost’s last days
For fans of Lost, this week’s long-awaited season premiere gave answers to questions raised in the previous season’s cliffhanger finale. By the end of this season, Lost has promised to answer all the mysteries, but there are still a few months to go. For now, fans can start by dealing with the emotional baggage of the beginning of the end.
"You’re going to cry right away," Josh Holloway said. "I think that you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, everything. Pretty much every episode this season is a stinger. I mean they’re pulling out all the stops, both emotionally and physically. There’s a lot of action. There’s a lot of stuff going on."
Emotion is about the only thing with which Holloway can connect. Even though his character, Sawyer, has been central to the time traveling (he took over the Dharma station in 1977), Holloway can’t explain his own show’s mysteries.
"I’ve never understood it. I quit trying. You know what it is, it’s just like life and it’s full of mystery and days when you think you understand it and you’ve got it all figured out and then the next day you have no idea. It’s exactly that way, and everyone is always like, ’What’s going to happen in the end?’ Well, in the end we don’t know in life what’s going to happen in life and that’s been the brilliance of these creators. They’ve allowed it to be like life and to flesh out stories and to follow something that they see in a character, a personal character and write that in the show as a part of that person’s character. They’ve done that the whole way through. Then if a phenomenal actor comes on as a guest star, well then they’re written into the story. It’s like that and they’ve been very open to that."
"It ripped my heart out"
This week’s episode picked up with Sawyer dealing with the loss of Juliet in the previous season finale. She officially died on screen, but his relationship with her was over even before she fell down the hole last year. When Kate came back, Juliet suspected Sawyer’s heart was still with her. In the collapse of the Orchid station and detonation of the bomb, Sawyer couldn’t save his beloved’s life either. So now Kate is still there, but Sawyer is still torn.
"They’re different, one being an undeniable love that just exists like it does in life and one that began as a friendship, or as enemies and then a friendship and then developed into something that’s a softer and more mature relationship, I guess. One of choice and one that’s not by choice. So they’re both valid is what I’m trying to say in their own way."
If last year’s finale was tough for Lost viewers, it was no easier for the actor. "Oh, are you kidding, it ripped my heart out."
This after starting the year with the daunting task of selling a Sawyer/Juliet love nest. "We were like, ’What?’ But that was a kind of scary relationship to bring to life and then hope that the audience went along with it. So when it worked out so well and had such a powerful kind of ending we were both pleasantly surprised. But, it was heart-wrenching to film." Story continues on following page.
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