Here’s another entry in the “LOST actors who sing” series. It’s a strange one. Pay attention to the words:
You think his kids had Daddy issues? 😉
The video clip is from 1989, when O’Quinn was on MTV’s The Big Picture. He was promoting Stepfather II
Here are the trailers for Stepfather I (1987) and Stepfather II (1989), which are unintentionally funny, and filled with scary … hairstyles.
Josh Holloway (Sawyer) singing
There are so many good singers in the talented LOST cast!
Here is Josh Holloway, before he was Sawyer, singing a country song.
The song was made for a 2002 movie Western called Mi Amigo, but it ended up not making it into the movie itself, only into the DVD extras.
The movie got a unanimous rating of one star on Amazon! It must have been an amazingly bad movie. I can’t remember ever seeing anything else on Amazon that was rated only one star.
One of the Amazon reviewers called it “the worst movie ever
The song itself, though, is very nice. The video can’t be embedded, but you can watch it on YouTube here: Josh Holloway sings
Screencap from video (c) 2005 Azalea Film Ventures I, Ltd.
Hmmm … I wonder if calling Sawyer “LaFleur” might be an in-joke, a reference to Holloway having previously worked for a company named “Azalea”?
Jorge Garcia (Hurley) singing
He has a nice voice! Listen –>
The song is for the upcoming movie When We Were Pirates, starring Jorge Garcia himself!
You can watch an interview with Jorge tomorrow (Tuesday, April 21, 2009) on the daytime TV show the Bonnie Hunt show. Probably no singing, but he will be talking about LOST — and about his beloved tomato garden.
In this clip from earlier this week (the evening before LOST Episode 5×13 aired), Jorge is funny, talking about time travel, buying toilet paper at the grocery store with coupons, not going surfing, and spotting a stranger in his back yard.
For more Jorge, check out his blog.
Screencap of Jorge Garcia from Jimmy Kimmel Live, April 14, 2009 (c) ABC
Entertainment Weekly did a brief video interview with Ken Leung. He describes his character Miles as being hurt or “haunted by something,” and he says that being able to communicate with the dead “can’t be a happy skill to have.” He also says that he thinks Miles is “definitely hiding something.” Hmmm …
(I don’t see any embeddable copies of the video yet. I’ll add one later if I find one. Meanwhile, you can see the video at the link above.)
Posted in Interviews, Miles (Ken Leung)
There’s going to be a clip show and, alas, no new episode on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in the show’s regular timeslot, 9:00 pm to 10:02 pm.
According to an ABC press release (via Dark UFO), the clip show is called Lost: The Story of the Oceanic 6, and from the description, it sounds as if it’s going to be covering mostly material from Seasons 4 and 5.
My guess is that the clip show may untangle the flash-forwards and follow the storylines of each of the characters, perhaps in a way similar to what was done in the Season 4 DVD
Speaking of which, here’s a very brief clip of Darlton (producers/writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse) talking about Course of the Future — and goofing around — at last summer’s Comic Con. These guys crack me up:
Posted in Clip shows, Damon and Carlton, Funny, Schedule, Season 4, Season 5
Ken Leung in The Sopranos
About eight months ago, I was watching The Sopranos on DVD, and one of the guest stars looked really familiar. I was sure I had seen him in some other role, but couldn’t place him. And then it hit me — maybe it was the freighter guy from LOST, the one who could get in touch with ghosts.
And so it was.
In this episode of The Sopranos (Remember When, originally airing on April 22, 2007), Ken Leung plays a patient in a mental hospital. He latches onto a fellow patient who he greatly admires, the former mob boss Uncle Junior, who had been placed in the hospital after shooting his nephew Tony Soprano. Uncle Junior entertains himself in the hospital by organizing secret poker games for the patients, and Leung’s character, Carter Chong, eagerly assists him.
Chong at first appears quite normal, to the point where you wonder why he is in the hospital at all. And then, in the middle of an ordinary conversation, he suddenly snaps. Leung gives a very interesting performance in this role of a character whose whole demeanor can change on a dime.
After seeing this episode of The Sopranos, LOST producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were so impressed with Leung’s performance that they decided to offer him a role on LOST. Actually, it was even more than that — they created a new role especially for him.
On a lighter note, here is Ken Leung, seven years earlier, in a short and funny clip from the movie Keeping the Faith. Watch the clip past the 1:45 point to see a couple of twists at the end.
Screen cap of Ken Leung as Carter Chong, with Uncle Junior, played by Dominic Chianese, in the background. (c) HBO
Posted in Damon and Carlton, Funny, Miles (Ken Leung), Other roles
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