Gale's movie Falling for Grace - new HD trailer...

Okay, so, hopefully as a pre-emptive strike in preparation for the long overdue DVD release, this HD trailer for Falling for Grace has been uploaded to YouTube.

I can see no new scenes or anything here and I can't help but totally agree with someone who commented that they "sure would like to see more than 2 minutes of this movie some day!" ;)

Anyway, here it is:



Here are some caps, they do get a lot bigger:















UPDATE: Well, I'm not having much luck with these videos! The HQ version of the FFG trailer which Fay Ann Lee alerted us to here, as you can see, has been removed leaving behind a 'violation' message. Why this has suddenly violated 'terms of use' I have no idea, it just seems strange, but as Fay didn't even know who put up the trailer I'm not surprised. At least I got some nice caps while it was available! (There is a lower quality copy of the trailer still up on YouTube.)

New Randy interview...

Fabulous new interview with Randy in Stockbridge. Talking about appearing in Ghosts this year amongst other things. I am so very, very jealous of all you people who will get to see this play. I hope you enjoy it you lucky lot!

Oh, and by the way, do my eyes deceive me or is there a broad chest and the definite outline of some biceps underneath that white t-shirt? The hat and the braces/suspenders make another appearance. I wonder if he has on 'The Shoes'? ;)

Randy Harrison Interview: Ibsen's Ghosts at Berkshire Theatre Festival
The Actor Talks About Renewing a Classic
by Larry Murray - 2009-08-05

When Berkshire Theatre Festival Artistic Director Kate Maguire announced Ghosts for her 2009 season (August 15-29 on the Main Stage), it was clear that this was not going to be some embalmed museum version of a classic. In a year of austerity, she could have chosen to stick to a routine and traditional offering of Henrik Ibsen's 1881 play. It would find an audience because it is one of the great works that moved the theatre into realism, dealing frankly and openly with tough sexual and familial issues.

But one look at the creative team and it was clear that something special was up. This Ghosts is going to be a fresh adaptation put together by Director Anders Cato and BTF Dramaturg James Leverett. Last year they rethought Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

Reunited from that earlier cast are David Adkins and Randy Harrison, together with other BTF regulars Jonathan Epstein, Mia Dillon and Tara Franklin. These names might not be household words, but for BTF regulars, the cast alone makes this Ghosts special.

To explore what was going on, we headed down to Stockbridge to talk with actor Randy Harrison. The rehearsal studios at BTF are very simple, even primitive. They are nestled into a wooded lot that also contains the "camp" kitchen where the actors and apprentices eat their simple meals. The sun was out at last, and with it at his back, through the battered old screen door came Harrison, making a beeline for the tape recorder and me. He was all smiles, and we chatted amiably before settling into what would be a serious discussion.

The Berkshire Theatre Festival has slowly become his regular summer home. The Festival is an artistic and spiritual resource where he retreats to try new things and challenge himself. "It is all of those things to me, plus I get a lot of new opportunities here," he said happily.

Opportunities like playing the son Oswald in Ghosts for the first time. In the play his mother, Mrs. Alving (Dillon), is keeping secrets from him, worsened by horrible advice from a puritanical preacher, Manders (Adkins), and complicated by an infatuation with the maid Regina (Franklin) and her devious father, Engstrand (Epstein). Into this household returns the more worldly Oswald, who is mortally ill. The character is a contradiction, someone who is full of life but facing a death sentence. I wondered just how Harrison was playing the son, as someone with vitality, or as a gloomy Gus.

"That's one of the interesting aspects," Harrison answers, "Oswald talks so much about the joy of life, and that's reflected in his painting. But it is this same vitality that is so much a part of him that killed his father. His dad was not able to express himself like that." In the play it is clear that Mr. Alving was a frustrated man who simply had no outlet to express his own joie de vivre in that repressive society.

"His mother says that for all his life his father was stuck in this gloomy town, one completely devoid of real passion and that there was nothing but business and social status." Back then it was all a matter of simply keeping up appearances, of conforming to the rigid strictures of the Victorian era. "Yes, and so the father self-destructed." But because Oswald had his painting, "He was also able to have a great deal of vitality and life."

We moved on to the subject to the forces assembled for the production, including director Anders Cato. Last year they had a couple of extra weeks of rehearsal time for Godot, thanks to a grant the National Endowment for the Arts. With that they had the luxury of time that let them examine every line of the Beckett play.

"We got so spoiled," admitted Harrison. "That was awesome. I just love working with Anders Cato, it's so comfortable and he's such a great guide. He makes you want to work harder, to get more deeply invested in the play. Every time he speaks about some aspect of it, it just triggers your imagination." Cato is known for being able to bring out the best in an actor. "He's very clear and articulate about what he wants. Also, he's very good about talking about things that are hard to talk about. He just knows how to guide an actor in a way that doesn't just tell you what to do, but that opens it up both within the play and inside your own imagination."

The last time we spoke, Harrison pointed to Jim Leverett, the BTF Dramaturg, as one of his biggest helpmates in working out his character's role. "He always has such a wealth of knowledge, just having him in the room - especially in the beginning - is great." The work of these literary specialists is little known and appreciated outside of the theatre world, but a good one can provide the clues and pointers that raise a production from competent to transcendent. "There's a lot of brain power there to be tapped," he adds.

For all its realism and insights, most of the translations of Ghosts suffer to one degree or another from being stiff and starched. Since Cato and Leverett collaborated on a new translation, this could smooth out the problems of the older texts. It would be wonderful if the new script were less Victorian and more contemporary. "It is," said Harrison, "I am finding it more natural and easy to speak." As the actors try out the new translation, there are still more changes as the words move from written to spoken. "There's been a little of that, but it's minimal."

Working on the new show with Harrison is a cast of actors who have become, if not family, certainly good friends and colleagues. They've been on other projects together, and have come to share a common language. "That's one of the really special things about working here," he enthused, "When you get to work with people you already know, they have a shorthand and a wit that you respect and trust." Powerful stuff. "You start further ahead than you would in a more ordinary process," he noted. You also have a shared language. "Usually when I start a rehearsal process in New York when I don't know anybody, or the director, I'm like really nervous at the beginning. Even though you try not to be that way, or spend too long trying to seek approval or figuring out how you need to talk to people, and how the process works, it happens."

Getting up to speed in any new job takes time, that's to be expected, of course. But if there are only a couple of weeks to learn and put together a two hour show, the edges can be very rough. "Here we all know each other, and we can start right there. There are no nerves, no beginning worries." Of course, with any new task, there is always the worry about whether things will turn out well. "There's always fear," Harrison points out, "But there's so much less that you have to contend with. Which is really nice."

The actor worked with Mia Dillon in both Equus and Amadeus at BTF and he reports that in her role in Ghosts, as his mother, "I am starting to feel that way towards her. In the play, the son doesn't actually know his mother that well. He's been away from the house most of his life, from when he was seven to age 20. We were just staging the final scene, and I am starting to feel the mother in her. It's funny how that happens."

In the play, Ibsen recounts the years they were just following society's prescribed roles, and as it unfolds, the two are finally getting to know each other. Harrison explains: "Of course they both have ideas about the mother-son relationship, but the last time he was home was two years ago. They exchanged letters and that sort of thing, but they are still negotiating what its like to be with each other and who they are.

"Towards the end of the play he is talking about how he has no love for his father and she asks if he loves her, and he answers by saying that well, he knows her. The awesome thing about Oswald is that he knows it is over for him, that he is going to die. There's no bullshit about him, you know, he cuts everything straight to the bone. So much of the play is about her dealing with the lies and hypocrisy, and the need to fix things, or cover them up, and trying to accept the reality while he is just direct and to the point."

It is always a source of amazement that hundred year old plays can tell us so much about life today. We have more freedom, but the same repressive, spirit deadening cultural and religious forces are at work in our current society. "I find Ibsen really relevant. This play, and his Dolls House, they still speak to us. We spend so much time role playing, trying to be who we think we are supposed to be, instead of actually looking at ourselves and figuring out who and what we really are."

In the final moments of the play, Oswald is sitting in his chair repeating "The sun, the sun..." Does that have a double meaning to you? "There is a double meaning in about everything Oswald says," Harrison responds. "There are a lot of ironies, even bitter ironies, in his words. Especially so in the beginning, before he reveals what his situation is, that he is dying from syphilis.

"Another example is when he tells his mother that yes, he has come home to stay, because he hasn't made any plans to go back to Paris. I'm here for a while, and the audience doesn't know yet what he knows: he has come home to die." His fate is sealed. "Oh yes, and he's there to make arrangements."

Then in a twist in the play, he falls in love with Regina, the maid. "I don't know if he did actually fall in love," Harrison speculates. "She seems aware of what Oswald really came home for, and the great love between him and his mother. Oswald also sees that Regina is young and carefree, and doubts whether she could follow through on what is required, to be his nursemaid for the next 40 or 50 years. Yet he wants to get away from dreary Norway, and he knows if he goes back to Paris, he will never return."

So it seems their great flash of love dissipates as the play goes on, I prompt. "You know, you're asking me to give away all the secrets and endings," Harrison smiles.

That was the idea. And in the process, he's managed to raise everyone's curiosity, making this wonderful old play sound new again.

Ghosts begins previews on August 11, officially opens on August 15 and closes on August 29. Berkshire Theatre Festival Main Stage performances are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8pm, Wednesdays at 7pm, with 2pm matinees on Thursdays and Saturdays. The box office number is 413.298.5576 and is open Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 8 pm. There are special discounts for Berkshire Residents. You can also visit their website for online ticket ordering.

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Randy back at Michael's...

Randy back at Michael's in Stockbridge on Friday (31st July), I will, one day, make it there!

Okay, so it's karaoke again and Randy as usual is getting right into it. Unfortunately it looks like he's taken a couple of tips from the 'Gale Harold book of Sartorial Dressing'! In fact those jeans are so taylored tailored they look like a second skin. That's definitely a Gale 'thing'.


First thing to notice is the HAIR! Beautiful, beautiful hair that he's been growing for a while now. Second thing is that must be some serious song he's singing there. He not only needs braces, or whatever you call them in the US - suspenders? - to keep his pants in place while he belts out the song (although they look soooo tight I can't imagine them going anywhere), he also needs TWO microphones.



That stripey jumper looks very familiar too, that's had some outings.



Those legs in those skinny, skinny jeans really emphasising the size of those feet. Although those...um...unusual shoes may be helping with that impression too!




Oh, and of course, as every girl and Randy knows (obviously via another of Gale's invaluable tips), a fun hat can finish off any outfit to perfection.
Well done Randy, you look absolutely fabulous, darling! ;)

Anyone know what the heck he was singing?

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Apologies...

If you're here looking for Gale's film 36k, I'm afraid I've taken down the link. I hadn't realised when I originally posted that it wasn't complete. It really is of abysmal quality anyway so you're not missing much, but if you're still interested you can easily find it on youtube. A better quality complete version may re-surface at some point, although after all this time I am very doubtful. Sorry.

Here's a very large beautiful picture of Gale, so your time wasn't completely wasted. :)

John Barrowman on Desperate Housewives...

Oh Em Gee! John Barrowman on Desperate Housewives! That show just... well, I'm lost for words! Hee! Can you imagine him on there? He's going to camp up the campest show on TV!

John Barrowman: 'I'm going to be a Desperate Housewife'

Torchwood actor jets to Los Angeles to join cast of hit ABC show

Torchwood star John Barrowman revealed today that he is to swap the BBC Wales sci-fi production for Hollywood with a part on Desperate Housewives. Barrowman revealed his career move in a phone chat on Chris Moyles's Radio 1 breakfast show this morning. "I'm off to Los Angeles on Sunday again," Barrowman announced. "I probably shouldn't say this but I've got a meeting with the execs of Desperate Housewives; can you believe it, I'm going to be a Desperate Housewife!" When Moyles's producer Aled Haydn Jones asked if he could come and hang out with him in LA, Barrowman replied: "You can come and be my lover, Aled!" Moyles wasn't having any of it, and instead asked if he could come and be his "roly-poly gardener". Barrowman replied: "You can be the roly-poly gardener or the handyman with the big butt crack." Monkey is guessing Moyles might somehow not fit in with the body beautiful edict on the ABC show.

The things you do when bored...

For my niece who's not been very well.

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Josh Holloway and others at the San Diego Comic Con...

I don't know what I was thinking, but I missed this the other day, so here's a link to NINE videos, which is the entire length of the LOST Q&A Panel at Comic Con plus a couple of others.

These are three more which ABC released today. My love for Josh just grew and grew watching this first video! He's as tongue-tied as my first love Gale Harold always is when being interviewed... well, almost! Jorge Garcia is adorable. So many people apparently turned up as "Hurley"! Love Michael Emerson too, especially when he's NOT looking all googly-eyed and bonkers! :)



This one has Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof talking about the Comic Con Panel Q&A and some other stuff.

I really hope they don't ruin the whole thing in this final season. Loose ends tied-up, no shitty cover-ups.



This one is about the set and props auction they are planning to hold around May next year. Couldn't think of only one thing I would want... maybe Sawyer's glasses! ;)

Michael Vick - my thoughts

I don't know Michael Vick. I've never seen him play football. I only know that he was convicted of, and has only served 23 months for, financing the disgusting 'sport' of dogfighting.

I don't know Michael Vick. I wouldn't ever want to know Michael Vick. I feel sick when I think about what he did. I find it impossible to understand what reason he had to get involved in dogfighting? He wasn't poor. He wasn't unemployed. He wasn't trying to make a better life for himself and his family. So why?

I don't know Michael Vick. I just know that there's no reason on this earth why he needed to get involved in such an horrendous 'sport'. All I know is that he has to be a heartless, unemotional man to be able to do such a thing.

I don't know Michael Vick. I just think that it's appalling that he is being put in a position in which he can influence the lives of youngsters who see him and think that what he did can't be that bad. He's back after an abysmally short sentence. He's back to playing football for incredible amounts of money. Let's make sure no one forgets what he did. Most of all let's keep our eyes on him and not let him go back to drowning, hanging and otherwise torturing and causing terrible unimaginable pain and suffering to dogs again. We just cannot let that happen.

(Images capped from the National Geographic DogTown programme on Michael Vick's Dogs. You can see a clip of the programme on YouTube here. Visit the Vick Dog Blog to see how twelve of the dogs are doing now. Go to BadRap Blog and see what lovely dogs Pitbulls really are.)


Here's the Reuters Report:

Vick reinstated conditionally, may play by Week 6
Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:43pm EDT

By Larry Fine

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Quarterback Michael Vick has been reinstated to the NFL on a conditional basis and a decision on his return to action will come by the sixth week of the regular season, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday.

Vick, who completed a 23-month criminal sentence for bankrolling a dogfighting ring, was free to sign with an NFL team, participate in practice and play in the final two preseason games.

A decision on his return to regular-season competition would be based on the progress he makes in a "transition plan" laid out by the commissioner at a news conference.

"I will decide within the first six weeks of the regular season when and whether he will be reinstated to play," Goodell told reporters.

Goodell said he would evaluate how Vick conducted himself in terms of court-mandated conditions and promises the former Pro Bowl quarterback made to him in a four and a half hour meeting he had with him last week in the New York area.

Vick said he was grateful for the chance to play again.

"I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to Commissioner Goodell for allowing me to be readmitted to the National Football League," the 29-year-old said in a statement.

Vick played six seasons with the Atlanta Falcons but was released by the club following his conviction and indefinite suspension by the NFL.

"I fully understand that playing football in the NFL is a privilege, not a right, and I am truly thankful for the opportunity I have been given," he said.

Vick, a former top overall pick in the NFL Draft and a three-times All-Pro, said he would continue to receive mentoring from former NFL coach Tony Dungy, who steered the Indianapolis Colts to a Super Bowl title.

Dungy visited Vick in prison and also saw him during a final two-month period of home confinement in Virginia.

Commissioner Goodell said working with Dungy was a key component in Vick's transition plan.

"One of the most important things that we talked about is that nobody gets through life alone," Goodell said. "You always have to have a mentor, someone who can give you guidance and support at critical moments.

"Michael needs that right now and I've asked Tony Dungy to play a more formal role on my behalf and on Michael's behalf."

Vick is currently a free agent and able to sign with any team. Besides evaluating how Vick might help on the field, teams will also consider potential backlash in their community from people outraged by his role in the dogfighting ring.

Goodell told Vick in a letter that the conditional reinstatement allowing him to practice with his team should not be viewed as punishment.

"It is intended to maximize the prospect that you can successfully resume your career and your life," Goodell wrote.

"You have submitted to me a written plan concerning your proposed living arrangements, how you will manage your financial affairs, counseling and mentoring plans, and your proposed work with the Humane Society (animal protection organization) and other groups.

"You have committed to me that you intend to abide by this plan, and as I said when we met, you are accountable for doing so."

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Gale... yet again!

I think we're squeezing the life out of Gale's appearance at the Campus Moviefest, aren't we! We can't possibly watch him doing the same thing from any more angles, um, can we? Well yes, yes we can! :)

Another video, I can't even tell if we've seen some of this stuff before or not, but anyway Gale is on from about 2:10 to 2:18...



As usual I've made some caps and they all get larger:


Gale delivering his speech.


Blah, blah, um, you know...


Watching the movie. Capped that last one at an unfortunate point! ;)

The rest I'm sure I've capped before, but you can't have too much Gale, right? Anyway, these are all of Gale totally losing the will to live. Hee. When the interviewer starts talking with Oded Fehr, Gale's eyes glaze over and start wandering around. God knows what he's looking at! Poor man, he really hates these things, doesn't he?





Okay, so where the hell is Gale's video. With audio! Come on, everyone has their own individual vid, so why not Gale?

Doctor Who trailer of "The Waters of Mars" and a pretty rough preview clip of "The End of Time"...

The new trailer for the Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" was shown at the San Diego Comic Con this weekend. I haven't heard anything new, so I assume the air date is still sometime in November.

It's looking very, very good, but remember it is a trailer so it does contain spoilers...



Okay, so here's a fan video made at the SDCC showing a clip of "The End of Time" which will be showing at Christmas. It's pretty bad, but I love it because you get the full force of the atmosphere there when the clip was shown. If I can find a better video I'll post it later. Remember, spoilers again...

David Tennant and John Barrowman kiss at San Diego Comic-Con...

This is absolutely AWESOME! :)

Russell T. Davies, David Tennant and John Barrowman at the San Diego Comic-Con. I adore David and John, but this... this is just wonderful! Just after the five minute mark David rushes John and kisses him! John's reaction is hilarious. It all happened yesterday apparently, but I was too busy looking at GH! Anyway it's great. Just watch...

Elizabeth Mitchell interview...

Lovely interview with Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet on LOST) at the San Diego Comic-Con. I shall really miss her each week on Lost. The last season her character had wonderful chemistry with Sawyer and, although I loved him with Kate, I shall really miss that relationship between him and Juliet. Thank god she's going to be appearing in 'additional' episodes!

Elizabeth Mitchell on Lost's Juliet: 'She Had Found This Kind of Peace that I Fought Very Hard Against'

Written by Kyle Buchanan | 24 Jul 2009, 5:00 AM

There’s this thing about women named Juliet: They’re famous for meeting tragic ends. Elizabeth Mitchell’s character on Lost was no different — after finding unlikely love with Sawyer (Josh Holloway), she sacrificed herself to set off a crucial bomb — but luckily, Mitchell’s career has new life after that death. In addition to a mysterious number of additional episodes she’ll shoot for Lost’s final season, she’ll be seen later this year toplining ABC’s reboot of the alien miniseries V.

At Comic-Con, I talked to the actress about Juliet’s journey, the tumultuous period after she learned of her Lost fate (then had it somewhat revoked), and the alien-hunting yet to come.

Congratulations on the smooth transition between Lost and V.
I know! Who would have thought?

How did it go down? When you were told you’d be coming to an end as a regular on Lost, were you immediately offered V by ABC?
Basically, the two things happened within days of each other, which I was very surprised by. And, of course, the decisions were left to people more powerful than me. [Laughs]

But surely you had some input.
Well, V was actually a very personal choice on my account. It was somewhat brought to me, but it was along the lines of, “Oh, and then there’s this.” But I’ve always loved the idea of playing a female protagonist on a sci-fi show. I just like it — that’s the kind of thing I watch. [Gesturing to her husband, seated nearby] Like, we’re huge Battlestar Galactica fans. I think sci-fi is sexy, I think it’s fun. I love watching procedural shows, but I’m not as fascinated by them — not really at all. Being in them and acting in them is not really my thing, so I realized that if I was gonna do [a TV show] again for a long time, I would want it to be fun and incredibly challenging for me, something I’d have to stretch to reach.

So what’s the stretch for you in V?
First of all, the thing that was really fun about Juliet is how still she was, and how she watched everybody. For three years now, I’ve been in her mindset, which is a really unique and bizarre and kind of wonderful place to be and I’ve loved every minute of it. The character I play now [on V] — which I’ll be doing at the same time as Juliet [in future Lost episodes], which is going to be really interesting — is incredibly intelligent but vulnerable at the same time. Her anger and her emotions are far more forthright than mine or even Juliet’s are. There’s an honesty to the way she does things that’s fascinating.

And I think the idea of my character having a son who’s sixteen is gonna be…I mean, I have a son who’s four, and already, I can’t believe the words that come out of my mouth. There’s a thing about motherhood that I have never had a chance to play, which is weird at 39, right? You would think that I’d have played so many mothers by now. [Her husband interrupts: “You don’t look 39.”] Ah, that’s nice. [“Getting there, though,” he adds, as she laughs.]

Are you happy that you have a role where you can wear different clothes, as opposed to Lost, where you’d wear the same thing for multiple episodes?
I think my mom is happiest about the makeup. She’s like, “You get to wear makeup, you can finally look pretty!”

That can be kind of jarring — it’s like when people from Survivor appear on the reunion show, and you’re like, “Why did you put on all that makeup?”
I always feel that way! What I always enjoyed about Lost is that we’re there with almost no makeup on our face, we’re emotionally naked, we’re sweating, we’re hot, and we’re generally pretty disgusting, and the camera catches it. There’s a certain beauty to seeing people the way they are.

Even before this last season of Lost, you talked about how you thought Juliet would probably have a tragic ending.
Yeah, I always figured that she would. I actually had thought that she would end up doing something terrible, but then as it went on, I kind of thought she would end up doing something incredibly noble, which is what she did by sacrificing herself. The character was insanely complex and insanely fun. As she started going more in one direction, I thought, “Well, obviously this is going to come to its natural conclusion.”

Do you mean she finally became happy, and that never lasts long in Lost?
Yeah! Happy and not as complex, do you know what I mean? She and Sawyer had found this kind of peace that I fought very hard against and Josh fought very hard against, and we were so wrong, which is really nice. When I watched it, I liked it, and I don’t usually like anything I do.


Why didn’t you think it would work?
Well, I had always liked Sawyer with Kate! I mean, not to be a fangirl — which I am — but I just really actually liked them together. I liked their chemistry, their passion. What I didn’t anticipate is how Josh would play it and how he made it so honest and so happy and so real. When I was watching him, I was like, “That’s why that relationship works.”

Were you worried about incurring the wrath of your fellow fangirls?
I mean, I came on the show incurring that. I immediately hooked up with Jack and they were like, “Uhhh, no!” [Laughs] So I wasn’t as worried about that — I think as an actor, if you’re worried too much about people liking you, then you don’t really get to play the character so much. It’s not that it’s not great when people do like you or love the character or any of those things — it’s the most amazing thing ever to have that — but if I went into it thinking something like that, I don’t think I could have done it.

This year, though, the fan approval for your character and her relationship with Sawyer seemed to shoot through the roof.
Yeah, it was surprising.

Do you think it’s partially because audiences started trusting Juliet? During your first two seasons, it never seemed like she laid all her cards on the table, but this year, she felt complete.
We finally felt like we kind of knew everything [about her]. Every time something would come up before, she always had a wealth of new information and you kind of got the feeling that she shared it when she needed to.

On a show like Lost, was it a nice thing to think, “Oh, I think I finally know everything important there is to know about my character?”
I think I didn’t, because I have this crazy active and oddly weird little mind that tries to find all the wiggle room in places, so I think that I was still going through all the ways that things could be more complicated than it was. And when it turned out to be very simple, I was very happy. I was happy watching it more than I was playing it.

It’s funny that you began your tenure on the show sharing scenes almost exclusively with Matthew Fox and Michael Emerson, and you finished by sharing them almost solely with Josh Holloway.
I was very, very sad — and I hope that it’s rectified — that I didn’t have a final scene with Michael Emerson. I thought that built to a crescendo that then just died. There was a reason for that, but as an actor, that was hard for me because I just loved him so much. The same thing happened with Jack and Juliet — they got to a certain point and then they disappeared. But I love the fact that [the writers] do their thing and kind of just write whatever they want. It’s great.

Obviously, when you started shooting V before the season finale of Lost aired, speculation began that Juliet would be killed off — so much so that you were being officially billed as a “special guest star” in V, even though ABC has now confirmed you play the lead. Were there machinations involved to try to keep all that secret?
There were some machinations, but the thing that’s so fantastic about Lost is that they tend to keep things mysterious. I mean, I literally don’t know what’s going to happen and no one else does, and that’s what’s fun about it. As an actor, they asked us to sign all this confidentiality stuff and I don’t think we ever did, so it really comes down to the moral question of, “Who are you loyal to?” And where I’m finally loyal to always is the work. It’s more fun for me when people don’t know what’s going to happen.

I mean, the thing about Lost is that you may say, “Well, Elizabeth’s on V now, so we’ll never see her on Lost again,” but that’s probably not the case. As it is, it’s a complete surprise, and anything that happens further on in the series is a complete surprise, and I wanted that to be the case. When Lost is over and V is over, then we’ll have to have a big chatfest and talk about everything and that’ll be great, but for now, I was very happy that no one was saying anything one way or the other. One thing happened with Lost, and then another thing happened with V, and then something [else] happened with Lost…

You mean, they came back to negotiate for additional episodes after you booked V?
It’s been a rollercoaster, yes.

So originally, you didn’t know you’d be coming back to Lost?
I didn’t know what was going to happen. They also said that they didn’t know either, at the time. It happened in three weeks, it was just crazy…When V came up and everything happened that happened, it was at the very, very end [of the season]. No warning, kinda. [Laughs]

When you do your additional episodes next year, you won’t be a regular anymore, which means that these scripts will sort of exist in a context-less vacuum for you. Are you afraid that you won’t have any idea where your scenes fit into Lost lore when you film them?
No, I trust those guys. I trust those guys to write beautifully. The way they write those characters and scenes and emotions, it’s very wise to trust in their words.

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