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The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has announced the nominations for the 35th Annual Saturn Awards, and LOST (once again) has found its way to the top with 11 nominations:
BEST NETWORK TELEVISION SERIES: LOST.
BEST ACTOR: Matthew Fox.
BEST ACTRESS: Evangeline Lilly.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Henry Ian Cusick, Michael Emerson & Josh Holloway.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Elizabeth Mitchell & Yunjin Kim.
BEST GUEST STARRING ROLE: Alan Dale (Charles Widmore), Kevin Durand (Keamy) & Sonya Walger (Penny).
BEST TELEVISION SERIES RELEASE ON DVD: LOST.
The complete list of nominees can be found on saturnawards.org. The awards will be presented June 25.
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Digital Spy has a new interview with Alan Dale, in which he talks about his new project: “Renaissance”. There’s no mention on LOST, which kind of worries me, because I love Widmore as a character and I’d hate to think that we won’t be seeing him too often next season.
Echo Beach is dead (commiserations, Martine) - but Moving Wallpaper lives on. Hurrah! Hoping for a second chance of primetime success, Jonathan Pope and his team are back with a new project: Renaissance, a one-off zombie drama pilot starring Alan Dale and Kelly Brook. We caught up with veteran actor Alan for a chat about his heroic role in the pilot and the prospect of playing himself in the accompanying comedy series.
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It seems like Alan Dale (Charles Widmore) doesn’t love Lost too much…
Last season the Lost team came over here to film scenes to work around your schedule, didn’t they?
“They brought over the stars, directors and DOPs, then paid a lot of money for Connaught House and a restaurant beneath Tower Bridge. I was doing Spamalot at the time. They asked me to take the time off and go over [to Hawaii], but I didn’t want to because I loved my time on Spamalot and I didn’t want to miss a day. I expected they would recast it or bring in a new character, but I think [Charles Widmore] is more involved in the show than even I realise.”
How invested are you in the show? Do you follow the twists?
“Truthfully, no. I know as much as anyone else, but I don’t even know as much as you because I got sick of it. It went through a lull in scripts in the third season. At that point I felt like I had watched them wandering in a line through the forests a bit sweaty for the 1000th time. I thought ‘I can’t watch this anymore’. Then out of the bushes came a black cloud, which grabbed a black man and threw him to the ground, and I thought ‘I definitely can’t watch this anymore’.”
If you don’t know Widmore’s true motivations, how do you know how to play the character?
“It’s an interesting thing. You can sort of estimate what he is, based upon the lines he has to say. From the initial scenes I did with Henry Ian Cusick, the lines would indicate to me that he’s a rich, powerful arsehole! That’s what I think he probably is, so I just use that basic colouring and work from there. The [producers] don’t tell anyone what’s going on because the show has a lot of nutcase fans, and people could get a lot of money if they sell the storylines online. So they protect themselves by telling nobody.”
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