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Tags: interview, Michael Emerson, Post-LOST, True Blood, Videos

Damon Lindelof tells GMMR’s Marisa Roffman why he can’t be completely frustrated some people misinterpreted the series finale, what he thought of the recent auction and why the Emmy’s feel like the gang is going away to college.

Tags: Damon Lindelof, Emmys, interview, LOST Auction, LOST Finale, Post-LOST, Videos

Michael Emerson talks with GiveMeMyRemote‘s Marisa Roffman about “The New Man In Charge,” what he thought of the crazy LOST auction bids and whether he’ll work with Terry O’Quinn in the future.

Tags: Emmys, interview, LOST Auction, LOST Epilogue, Michael Emerson, Terry O'Quinn, Videos

Here’s a new interview from Variety.com:

Your hardest decision as showrunner?
CC: Firing anybody, particularly an actor who is dismissed not for any fault of his own, but because that’s what the narrative demands.

Your favorite moment as a showrunner?
DL: Getting the call from ABC that we would get to end the series on our own terms.

What’s your reaction when you’re recognized by a fan of the show?
CC: It’s cool but weird. Never in a million years did I expect that as a TV writer I’d ever have any kind of fame. Interestingly, about half the time people think I’m Ted Danson.

Your biggest fight with the network?
DL: There was an executive in the early days who felt there was too much gunplay on the show. This forced us to resort to physical beatings and torture … which made them miss the gunplay.

Your favorite “happy accident” in writing or producing the show?
CC: It has to be casting Michael Emerson in season two for a three-episode flyer as a mysterious “Other” captured by our survivors. He went to Hawaii and just took command of the show, ended up doing eight episodes that year, became a series regular the next, and we never looked back. Looking back, it’s hard to imagine how “Lost” could ever have existed without him.

Your best collaborative moment on the set or with a network?
DL: There are so many. When the network executives finished screening the finale for the first time, we were prepared to beg them for the extra time to extend it another half an hour, but Barry Jossen just said, “You’ve got the time.” No begging necessary. That pretty much categorizes our relationship with them all the way through.

Which shows have influenced your show?
CC: Since there weren’t a lot of antecedents to “Lost,” it’s a show that was actually influenced as much or more by books than by other series. Some of the biggest influences were Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, C.S. Lewis’ “Narnia” Chronicles and certainly the Bible.

“I wanted to give up when …”
DL: The pilot premiered to huge ratings, and we realized we were gonna have to do this for a while.

What would you want to say in an Emmy acceptance speech, but won’t?
DL: “Dad, if you hadn’t done such a number on me and then died before we could fully resolve our issues, I wouldn’t be holding this right now. Thanks, man!”
CC: Ditto what Damon says. We took our shitty relationships with our dads and, as the saying goes, made those lemons into lemonade.

Tags: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Emmys, interview

We’re looking at a movie like The Dark Knight, which went one step beyond Batman Begins… It was really about something, and at the same time it was a superhero movie. We don’t want to abandon all the things that made the first movie work…but we also really want the movie to thematically resonate.”

[Via E!]

Tags: Damon Lindelof, interview, Post-LOST, Star Trek, Videos

The cast of LOST shares their knowledge and expertise on the craft of acting.

Via LOSTUniversity.org:

Dear LOST University Students and Alumni,

With the series finale several months ago, we know you are sitting at home saying, “We have to go back!” Not only to the island, but back to the campus of LOST University.  For those of you who are new to our program or have not yet experienced campus life at LOST University, welcome.  For our continuing students and alumni we have many new opportunities waiting for you within the LOST University: Master’s Program.

Alumni and new masters students are needed to act as teacher assistants for new classes including Theology, Spanish with Professor Nestor Carbonell, Literature and Acting with the cast of LOST (exclusive to graduates from the LOST University Undergraduate Program). Each of these classes, led by top university professors, delve deeper into the mythology, stories and characters of LOST, providing a greater understanding as to what it all means and look at the show again with a more enlightened and educated point of view.

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Tags: DVD/Blu-Ray, Henry Ian Cusick, interview, LOST University, Terry O'Quinn, Videos, Yunjin Kim

On the first clip, Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse get teared up at the recording of the score for the LOST finale.

Watch five more clips after the cut.
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Tags: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, DVD/Blu-Ray, interview, LOST Finale, Season 6, Set of Lost, Videos

Pre-order LOST: The Complete Sixth and Final Season on Blu-ray & DVD and save up to 40%!

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Tags: Damon Lindelof, DVD/Blu-Ray, interview, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Matthew Fox, Michael Emerson, Season 6, Set of Lost, Videos

If you are a fan of NBC’s “The Office” then you are likely aware of Steve Carell’s departure next year. Michael Emerson’s name has been mentioned on quite a few lists of possible replacements for Steve Carell. Here’s Emerson’s response, extracted from a recent interview with USA TODAY:

I’ve seen it mentioned online, but I don’t take it very seriously. No industry person has talked to me. And plus, who wants to follow Steve Carell in that part? The opportunity for failure or embarrassment is so high that even if we lived in an insane universe where I actually got offered such a thing, I don’t know if you’d say yes to that.

Michael also talked about his new project with Terry O’Quinn:

There’s ongoing buzz that you and Terry O’Quinn would like to do a project together. Is there any update on that? Is Terry the cast member you’ve kept in touch with the most?

I sure do stay in touch with Terry. There are some ideas being batted around in Hollywood where things move slowly and eccentrically, so I don’t know if anything will come from it, but I do know that some serious writers are playing around with ideas.

Whether it will ever see the light of day or not, I’m not sure. It would be a ways off in the future, but I would jump at the chance to do another show with Terry. We get along famously, and he’s about as good a scene partner as an actor will ever have.

What’s your next project?

The next time the public sees me is probably in a PBS series in October called God in America. I play a Puritan. It’s a three-or four-night series. It’s a documentary, but it also has period dramatizations.

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Tags: Benjamin Linus, interview, Michael Emerson

This thirty-minute-long interview was recorded just a couple of hours ago. Emerson talks about life after LOST, the Season 6 DVDs, the Epilogue and more.

[Via AP LIVE]

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