Category Archives: Behind the scenes / elsewhere

The LOST Fan-Them

Posted on September 4, 2009 | 2 comments

All this guy cares about is LOST. We can relate.

The song is hilarious. It may be the only song ever to find rhymes for “Charles Widmore,” “Sayid Jarrah,” Lindelof and Cuse,” and “Brotha.”

Video made by The Super Secret Project

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Posted in Funny, Singing and/or dancing

Terry O’Quinn (Locke) singing “If I Loved You”

Posted on August 28, 2009 | 1 comment

This has been the first chance I’ve had to post anything since I got back from vacation. And what better way to get back into the swing of things than to put up one of my favorite types of posts — one with a LOST actor singing.

The clip is from The Last to Go, a 1991 made-for-TV movie about a husband (Terry O’Quinn) who abandons his wife. A reviewer in EW gave it a grade of B and wrote:

In theory, a TV-movie soap opera like The Last to Go should be miserable…. But director John Erman (Who Will Love My Children?) understands that it doesn’t matter whether the details of a script are cliched; the execution of them can redeem the banality…. Erman gets a typically intelligent, modest performance from O’Quinn.

The song is “If I Loved You” from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. O’Quinn does a good job, doesn’t he?

If you like the song, here’s a masterful version from the 1956 film, sung by Gordon MacRae and Shirely Jones:

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Posted in Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Other roles, Singing and/or dancing

Michael Emerson was “flummoxed” by the ending of The Incident

Posted on August 13, 2009 | Leave a comment

As always, I love to listen to Michael Emerson talk, and I love the way he has the same questions about the show that we, the viewers, do:

Q: I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about The Incident, what your take-away from that was, and what questions you’ve been asking yourself during the hiatus.

ME: Since the finale …

Q: Yeah.

ME: I’m flummoxed. (Laughter from the audience.) Honestly, it wasn’t one, but it was two big old earth-shattering cliffhangers, and I’ll be damned if I know what either of them mean, or what either of them lead to. Honestly, what can be the next breathing moment of the show? I have no idea, and I won’t know until two days before the camera rolls, I’ll get a script, and I will read it with some relish, because I’m curious to see where do we go from there.

I don’t know if Jacob is a killable entity. We’re always plunging knives into things, or shooting things on LOST, but it doesn’t mean that they go away. (Laughter) It may just trigger them to transform into something else.

Emerson goes on to talk about the “psychological landscape” of the scene where Ben stabbed Jacob. Then he takes questions from the audience.

This interview was conducted by EW’s Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson at Comic-Con 2009. I found it via LOST: On the Road, a very cool blog totally focused on Michael Emerson.

Naveen Andrews (Sayid) dancing

Posted on August 10, 2009 | 2 comments

Naveen Andrews dancing in "Bride and Prejudice"

Naveen Andrews didn’t always play killers! In Bride and Prejudice, a 2004 musical Bollywood adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, he played a role based on Mr. Bingley (Darcy’s friend). This clip shows him in an elaborate dance number:

Naveen discussed his preparation for the role in an interview with about.com conducted shortly before the film was released in the U.S.:

Q: What training did you have for the musical numbers?

NA: Oh Christ, well they had the choreographer, Saroj Khan, who does all those Bollywood films and is the best in her field. And I had to train nine hours a day for about 40 weeks trying to get this s**t done. It’s like traditional Indian dance coupled with M.C. Hammer from the early ‘90s, which has to be seen to be believed.

Q: Would you display your dance skills in a club?

NA: Absolutely not.

Too bad!

Here’s something very funny. Someone took the Bride and Prejudice dance number and used it to make a mash-up with the scene in LOST where Sayid tortured Sawyer:

Not the dancing! Oh no! I’ll tell you anything, just don’t make me watch any more dance! Hah.

The mash-up was made by RemieVander; Bride and Prejudice (c) Pathé Pictures International

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Posted in Funny, Interviews, Other roles, Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Singing and/or dancing

LOST in a Weird Al Yankovic tune

Posted on August 7, 2009 | 2 comments

A short excerpt of this first video was featured in the fan-made video montage shown in Comic-Con. Here’s the whole thing. It’s a brilliant, funny, manic recap of Season 2, set to Weird Al Yankovic’s “Alternative Polka.” The video was made by Robert Montjoy, aka CapnBob.

The previous year, CapnBob had made a video recapping Season 1 to the tune of Weird Al’s version of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” While this one didn’t make Comic-Con, it is my all-time absolute favorite fan-made video ever. Did I mention how much I love this video? Okay, then. Carry on, carry on:

CapnBob can be found in Bobville and on YouTube.

This next video isn’t LOST-related, but just because I can’t get the song out of my head now, here is Queen with the late great amazing Freddy Mercury singing “Bohemian Rhaposdy” at the Live Aid concert in 1985:

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Posted in Fan-made videos, Funny, Season 1, Season 2, Singing and/or dancing

Is Mr. Eko coming back?

Posted on August 5, 2009 | 4 comments

Mr. Eko praying over Ana Lucia's body

UPDATE 3/4/10: At last week’s PaleyFest, Darlton said Mr. Eko was not coming back, according to an article in TV Guide. (Warning: the TV Guide article is FULL of spoilers.)

UPDATE 5/28/10 Kristin dos Santos at E! Online is reporting that unnamed “ABC and Lost insiders” told her that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was offered a spot in the finale, but he turned it down because it wasn’t enough money — and that he had asked for five times as much as what was offered.

original post below:
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Season 6 seems to be shaping up to be a big reunion for formerly dead characters.

One character I never thought we’d see again, though, is Mr. Eko. Word was that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who played Mr. Eko, had quit the show, forcing the producers to ditch the storyline they had planned and to kill off the character prematurely.

Yet in a recent video interview with the British magazine site Empire, Akinnuoye-Agbaje was coy. He didn’t say he was coming back, but he definitely wasn’t ruling it out:

Q: So what are you working on next. There’s rumors of LOST …

AAA: Yeah, I just shot a guest episode with Tony Shalhoub from Monk, and yes, there are rumors circulating about LOST. I don’t know where they are coming from, but they are building up, yes. You know, with that show anything can happen, and the fans really liked Mr. Eko. It might be nice to see him wield the stick one more time.

Back in November 2006, the day after Mr. Eko died on the show, USA Today reported that “Akinnuoye-Agbaje asked to be written off the series. After losing both parents last year, he wanted to return to his London home and work on a film he’ll direct.”

Two years later, at the 2008 Screenwriting Expo, Damon Lindelof gave a slightly different version of the story, saying that Akinnuoye-Agbaje had not liked living in Hawaii:

Discussing how Mr. Eko became a much shorter-lived character than originally intended, Lindelof noted how it stemmed from actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who did not like living in Hawaii. Lindelof said, ” Our Mr. Eko plans very quickly derailed. Adawele’s unhappiness was almost instantaneous. On his second episode, he was expressing extreme dissatisfaction.” This led to them quickly changing Mr. Eko’s storyline to one that would only last one season. Asked what might have happened with Eko had he been the long term character he was going to be, Lindelof answered, “Originally he was going to be someone who challenged Locke for the spiritual leadership of the castaways.”

Whatever happened back then, Adewale seems interested in coming back to the show now. If we are lucky, all will be forgiven, he will be invited back, and perhaps we will finally find out how his original story would have ended.

Picture of Mr. Eko is a promotional still (c) ABC, via Lostpedia

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Posted in Damon and Carlton, Interviews, Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), Season 6