Long article here that as a couple of spoilers that we have seen before as well as another Walt/Michael returning hint.
PASADENA, Calif. - Josh Holloway steps off the red carpet, and immediately a dozen microphones are shoved toward his face.
Reporters outside an ABC party in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel are hungry for any tidbit about "Lost."
They throw questions at the model turned actor who plays the rough-edged Sawyer on the ABC drama.
"How do you like playing a bad guy?" someone asks.
Holloway narrows his eyes and cracks a sly fox-in-the-henhouse grin.
"A bad guy is just a good guy who has been hurt," he says with a thick Southern drawl.
Sawyer has become a breakout character and brought sudden fame to Holloway, who grew up in rural Georgia and once worked on a chicken farm.
"Lost" returns to ABC at 10 p.m. Wednesday (a new time slot) with hunky Holloway and the rest of those castaways who are stuck on a mysterious island.
The Internet is abuzz with fan speculation and anticipation.
What will Jack (Matthew Fox) do now that he knows Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer are lovers? It appears that the love triangle story is over.
A bigger question for ABC is: "Will the viewers come back?"
After airing six episodes in October and November, "Lost" went on an extended hiatus. Beginning with Wednesday's return, 16 new episodes will run without repeats until the end of the season.
ABC and the "Lost" producers are well aware that "Lost," with its complex plot and many unresolved mysteries, has lost viewers. Ratings dipped this season.
Breaking up the run of episodes was not a popular move, either.
Network officials say they want to find a way to show a "Lost" season without interruptions or repeats (like "24" on Fox).
What Will Happen?
When the series returns, "Lost" producers say, fans can expect to see less of The Others, a mysterious sinister group on a nearby island that keeps causing trouble for our favorite survivors of Flight 815.
There will be more stories about characters such as Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Hurley (Jorge Garcia), and Sun and Jin (Yunjin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim).
On Feb. 14, we will learn more about Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick). Remember that his long-lost love is in the outside world searching for him.
"We're going to be getting back to the beach," Lost co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof told TV critics at a news conference here. "That is the drumbeat that is beating the loudest for us, in terms of what the fans crave."
What viewers won't get are answers to big questions such as, "What is the origin of the island, and why did these castaways end up here?"
If the producers have their way, the whole mystery will be explained when the series ends. And they would like it to end at the 100 episode mark, but that's up to ABC.
Some things to look for in the coming episodes include: more about Hurley's past, the return of Michael Harold Perrineau Jr.) and Walt (Malcolm David Kelley), a guest role for Robin Weigert (Calamity Jane on "Deadwood") and more about castaways Nikki (Kiele Sanchez) and Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro).
"Lost" producer Carlton Cuse told critics that the Jack-Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) relationship will be explored as well as the Claire-Charlie (Emilie de Ravin and Dominic Monaghan) story.
"It doesn't mean that we are abandoning the other story line [about The Others] by any stretch of the imagination," Lindelof says. "It's just we're not committing as much screen time to the telling of that story once we get our hero characters back together."
But what will happen to the Sawyer-Kate romance?
"I certainly hope that doesn't cool off," Holloway says at an ABC media party. "It's been interesting to see how that has played out."
Holloway says he only knows what happens in the episodes that have been filmed, and he can't give away any surprises.
"We used to speculate about what it all means and the mysteries of the island, but now we just get the scripts and go with the flow," he says.
The Maverick
Holloway, 37, was born in California but grew up in a small community in north Georgia about 75 miles from Atlanta.
His mother was a nurse, and his father was a surveyor. His three brothers, Brad, 38; Sam, 34; and Ben, 28, all work in the computer field.
"I'm the maverick of the family," he says.
His family didn't have much money and he worked at odd jobs to get enough money to attend community college. He eventually transferred to the University of Georgia in Athens but left after one year for financial reasons.
"I love it there because Athens was such a party town with a lot of good music," he says.
He pursued a modeling career that took him around the world, but he found it unfulfilling.
In the late 1990s, he moved to Los Angeles to try to break into films and television. His first role billed him only as "good-looking guy" in the background on the first episode of The WB series "Angel."
More television roles followed, from "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" to the low-budget Sci Fi Channel movie "Sabretooth."
Now women are wearing "I Got Lost With Sawyer" T-shirts, he has been on the cover of TV Guide, and he's one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people in the world.
His wife, Kumala, 29, is a native of Jakarta, Indonesia. He says they were married in Hawaii, where "Lost" is in production part of the year.
"I like Sawyer because he's not really a bad guy," he says. "He's a scoundrel, not a villain. He was such an ass in the beginning that I was trying to grasp on any bit of humanity that the writers gave him."
Holloway has joked that Sawyer is a cross between Han Solo and a wolverine but with a little more edge and anger.
He says that in the first season, the producers told him that Sawyer was to take his own life, but they changed direction.
"I do like that he is a complex character who reads and is really smart and crafty … so many Southerners have been stereotyped as rednecks or dumb hillbillies," he says.
Source: TBO.COM
Reporters outside an ABC party in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel are hungry for any tidbit about "Lost."
They throw questions at the model turned actor who plays the rough-edged Sawyer on the ABC drama.
"How do you like playing a bad guy?" someone asks.
Holloway narrows his eyes and cracks a sly fox-in-the-henhouse grin.
"A bad guy is just a good guy who has been hurt," he says with a thick Southern drawl.
Sawyer has become a breakout character and brought sudden fame to Holloway, who grew up in rural Georgia and once worked on a chicken farm.
"Lost" returns to ABC at 10 p.m. Wednesday (a new time slot) with hunky Holloway and the rest of those castaways who are stuck on a mysterious island.
The Internet is abuzz with fan speculation and anticipation.
What will Jack (Matthew Fox) do now that he knows Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer are lovers? It appears that the love triangle story is over.
A bigger question for ABC is: "Will the viewers come back?"
After airing six episodes in October and November, "Lost" went on an extended hiatus. Beginning with Wednesday's return, 16 new episodes will run without repeats until the end of the season.
ABC and the "Lost" producers are well aware that "Lost," with its complex plot and many unresolved mysteries, has lost viewers. Ratings dipped this season.
Breaking up the run of episodes was not a popular move, either.
Network officials say they want to find a way to show a "Lost" season without interruptions or repeats (like "24" on Fox).
What Will Happen?
When the series returns, "Lost" producers say, fans can expect to see less of The Others, a mysterious sinister group on a nearby island that keeps causing trouble for our favorite survivors of Flight 815.
There will be more stories about characters such as Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Hurley (Jorge Garcia), and Sun and Jin (Yunjin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim).
On Feb. 14, we will learn more about Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick). Remember that his long-lost love is in the outside world searching for him.
"We're going to be getting back to the beach," Lost co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof told TV critics at a news conference here. "That is the drumbeat that is beating the loudest for us, in terms of what the fans crave."
What viewers won't get are answers to big questions such as, "What is the origin of the island, and why did these castaways end up here?"
If the producers have their way, the whole mystery will be explained when the series ends. And they would like it to end at the 100 episode mark, but that's up to ABC.
Some things to look for in the coming episodes include: more about Hurley's past, the return of Michael Harold Perrineau Jr.) and Walt (Malcolm David Kelley), a guest role for Robin Weigert (Calamity Jane on "Deadwood") and more about castaways Nikki (Kiele Sanchez) and Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro).
"Lost" producer Carlton Cuse told critics that the Jack-Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) relationship will be explored as well as the Claire-Charlie (Emilie de Ravin and Dominic Monaghan) story.
"It doesn't mean that we are abandoning the other story line [about The Others] by any stretch of the imagination," Lindelof says. "It's just we're not committing as much screen time to the telling of that story once we get our hero characters back together."
But what will happen to the Sawyer-Kate romance?
"I certainly hope that doesn't cool off," Holloway says at an ABC media party. "It's been interesting to see how that has played out."
Holloway says he only knows what happens in the episodes that have been filmed, and he can't give away any surprises.
"We used to speculate about what it all means and the mysteries of the island, but now we just get the scripts and go with the flow," he says.
The Maverick
Holloway, 37, was born in California but grew up in a small community in north Georgia about 75 miles from Atlanta.
His mother was a nurse, and his father was a surveyor. His three brothers, Brad, 38; Sam, 34; and Ben, 28, all work in the computer field.
"I'm the maverick of the family," he says.
His family didn't have much money and he worked at odd jobs to get enough money to attend community college. He eventually transferred to the University of Georgia in Athens but left after one year for financial reasons.
"I love it there because Athens was such a party town with a lot of good music," he says.
He pursued a modeling career that took him around the world, but he found it unfulfilling.
In the late 1990s, he moved to Los Angeles to try to break into films and television. His first role billed him only as "good-looking guy" in the background on the first episode of The WB series "Angel."
More television roles followed, from "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" to the low-budget Sci Fi Channel movie "Sabretooth."
Now women are wearing "I Got Lost With Sawyer" T-shirts, he has been on the cover of TV Guide, and he's one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people in the world.
His wife, Kumala, 29, is a native of Jakarta, Indonesia. He says they were married in Hawaii, where "Lost" is in production part of the year.
"I like Sawyer because he's not really a bad guy," he says. "He's a scoundrel, not a villain. He was such an ass in the beginning that I was trying to grasp on any bit of humanity that the writers gave him."
Holloway has joked that Sawyer is a cross between Han Solo and a wolverine but with a little more edge and anger.
He says that in the first season, the producers told him that Sawyer was to take his own life, but they changed direction.
"I do like that he is a complex character who reads and is really smart and crafty … so many Southerners have been stereotyped as rednecks or dumb hillbillies," he says.
Source: TBO.COM
