'Lost' Claims More Victims
Lost executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof struck a note of reassurance for the actors they have so callously murdered this season in a conference call yesterday. Their message to their cast: death could be the best thing that ever happened to you. As show honcho Carlton Cuse put it, "The good thing about Lost is that, a lot of the time, being dead leads to more work on the show. Actually, you can kind of improve your standing in the cast by being killed." Having crammed an eight episode story arc into four hours and a two-hour season finale on May 29, the show's writers will ferret six castaways off the island, and you can bet there will be blood. Promo photos for the series return already show an ailing Jack (Matthew Fox) being tended to by his new boo Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Fox has admitted he thinks he might be next. While it's more likely a bait and switch, he'll want to flip to the end of his script with trepidation, as past casualties haven't fared well on or off the show.
Michelle Rodriguez
played: badass from the tail section Ana-Lucia Cortez
killed by: Michael
post-death appearances: While producers insist that Rodriguez's abrupt departure from the show after her DUI arrest in Hawaii was planned all along, her character is rarely mentioned and hasn't returned to the show in any form.
post-Lost projects: Rodriguez' once-promising career has stalled. Her next project is the third sequel to The Fast and the Furious, where she reunites with other actors from the original film (Vin Diesel and Paul Walker) whose careers haven't exploded as much as they'd like. Fortunately for Rodriguez, James Cameron loved her in 2000's Girlfight and is giving her a major role in his 3-D project, Avatar.
Ian Somerhalder
played: rich, beautiful Locke-disciple Boone Carlyle
killed by: An accident while trying to get into an airplane in a tree.
post-death appearances: He appeared in some non-notable flashbacks, but as the island's first key death, has been largely ignored during the rest of the show's run.
post-Lost projects: Had the most frighteningly bad television sex ever with Michelle Borth in Tell Me You Love Me. He'll appear in the UK thriller The Tournament this year.
John Terry
played: Jack's father Christian Shepherd
killed by: Heart disease, presumably brought on by alcoholism and/or callous disregard for his own son's feelings
post-death appearances: The ubiquitous doctor (or his dead spirit) likes to hang loose on the island, whether it's in tall grasses or rocking chairs in the house of the mysterious Jacob.
post-Lost projects: Terry is working on multiple television and film projects, the most distressing of which is no doubt Matthew McConaughey's debut as a producer, Surfer, Dude. Yikes. Expect plenty of Christian Shepard in Lost's last five episodes of the season.
Cynthia Watros
played: psychologist-mental patient and noted chubby chaser Libby
killed by: Michael
post-death appearances: Despite Watros being arrested in the fateful Hawaiian same DUI that took the "life" of Michelle Rodriguez, she came back to haunt her killer this season, but has yet to return for ghost-human intercourse with her one true Hurley (Jorge Garcia).
post-Lost projects: Starring in a failed CBS sitcom pilot with Ed's Tom Kavanaugh, My Ex-Life.
Adewale_Akinnuoye-Agbaje
played: priest and murderer Mr. Eko
killed by: The smoke that had better be explained by May 29 lest fans of Lost will cry into next January.
post-death appearances: none. Akinnuoye-Agbaje's desire to stay in character on set throughout his run on the show may have turned off some higher-ups. No word on whether he threatened to condemn their souls to hell.
post-Lost projects: Akinnuoye-Agbaje nabbed the role of Heavy Duty in Stephen Sommers' big budget G.I. Joe adaptation. He'll no doubt have to be replaced when he punches Dennis Quaid in the face during an on-set altercation.
Dominic Monaghan
played: everyone's favorite Driveshaft guitarist Charlie Pace
killed by: The sweet mistress of the sea.
post-death appearances: He appeared in a flashback in the first episode of this season, but is unlikely to return in any other form.
post-Lost projects: He's worked on a script with Lord of the Rings co-star Billy Boyd, and presumably trying not to look too pathetic so Lost co-star Evangeline Lilly won't break his little hobbit heart again. Oh, and he's also been cast in the Wolverine movie as that X-Man you all know and love, Beak. You're not familiar with Beak? Get on that.
Mira Furlan
played: everyone's favorite shut-in and weapons expert Danielle Rousseau
killed by: Presumed dead after taking multiple arrows to her body cavity while en route to safety with her daughter.
post-death appearances: It's too early to tell, as Furlan's character's fate is still somewhat up in the air.
post-Lost projects: The so-called Croatian Meryl Streep is already a winner after escaping from war-torn Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
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