This Saturday Harold Perrineau (Michael Dawson on Lost) will be performing at CityWalk’s free “Plugged In” summer concert series, which features a lineup of live music by L.A.’s hottest bands every weekend throughout the summer, from July 9-Aug 29.
Harold Perrineau will be joined by other “LOST” cast members and hundreds of enthusiastic fans.
“Plugged In” features an “Always Unexpected” mix of non-stop live entertainment, popular celebrity bands, battle of the bands showcases and energetic Latin music nights, every weekend through August 29.
Harold’s performance is part of “Plugged In” Celebrity Band Saturday’s which touts the musical talents of celebrities best known for their roles in film and television.
Check it out this Saturday, July 24 at 8:45pm at Universal CityWalk – 1000 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608.
Rumors are swirling that just about every past Lost cast member may be journeying back to the island – where death apparently isn’t always the end – as the series heads into its final season. But Harold Perrineau’s not packing his bags for Hawaii just yet.
“I can only deny,” original cast member Perrineau told TV Guide Magazine about a possible return engagement as the seemingly deceased Michael Dawson – though a resurrection may be just a phone call away.
“Nobody’s said anything to me and I haven’t asked,” said Perrineau. “One of the great things I always thought about Lost is I back up and I let them do the thing that they’re really great at doing. They’re really great and creating drama and creating their show. And this way I don’t have to ask ‘Hey, what’s this? What’s that?’ I don’t ask any questions, I just show up and I let them do what they do. They’re good at it.”
That said, if the producers ring him up, Perrineau’s on the first flight to Oahu. “Of course I would show up! Are you kidding me? That’s my people!” He said he wasn’t sure if Michael could return organically back into the mythology, however. “Only if there’s some way that they’re getting back to all of those original characters that we started the journey with, and if that’s so then that makes sense to me. I don’t know other than that how it makes sense.”
“But then nothing makes sense on the show, so why am I even saying this?” he laughed.
Whatever happens, Perrineau is just as eager as any longtime viewer to find out the answers to the many mysteries Lost has posed over the years. “I still have questions – a ton of questions,” he explained. “I’m curious about how all that’s going to wrap up. There are just tons of things from when we first started that I’m still curious about.”
I just came across with this interesting article from Popular Mechanics, it’s a great read:
We can always count on Hurley to bring into question exactly what we’re thinking. In last night’s episode, of Lost, “Whatever Happened, Happened,” he came through once again when he asked what should be a simple question: Does Ben (2004) remember being shot by Sayid back in 1977? Clearly, the chronology of time on the island is as perplexing to the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 as it is to us.
A few weeks ago, we addressed the issue of paradox in time travel. (A quick refresher: A time traveler goes back into the past and kills his grandfather before his mother is conceived, which negates his own birth. In that case, he would never travel back in time in the first place. So his grandfather wouldn’t be killed at his hand and the time traveler would be born—and could potentially travel back in time and kill his grandfather. Therein lies the paradox.) According to Novikov’s Self-Consistency principle, there is zero probability of a time traveler doing something that would change the future; therefore, the universe will keep time travelers from altering the past to change the future.
And that’s exactly what trips us—and Hurley—up. Miles (channeling Faraday, who has mysteriously disappeared) explains that everything that has happened has already happened at sometime, “we [just] never experienced how it all turns out.” This jibes completely with what we’ve been told by other characters on the show (“Time is like a string. You can move forward, and you can move in reverse, but you can’t create a new string,” Faraday explained in the season five premiere ). But if everything that’s happened has already happened, then what about the concept of free will?
Here’s this week’s “Getting LOST” video from TV Guide:
• Michael Emerson tells us if, in fact, Ben will have to “make do” with not the entire Oceanic 6.
• Emerson also updates us on the status of Ben’s vendetta against Widmore.
• Who will have the most emotional reunion when the Oceanic HowEverMany are reunited with the left-behinders? I took that question to executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
• And lastly, if Jin survived the freighter explosion, might Michael have, also? I caught up with Harold Perrineau on the set of his new ABC series, The Unusuals, to get his take.
All told, lotsa fun stuff, so hit the Play button already!
In this interview with “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof, we look back on some of the behind-the-scenes decisions for season four, why some fans may be troubled by season five’s emphasis on time travel, and why the worst episode in “Lost” history was also the most important episode in “Lost” history (from a production standpoint, anyway).
What material did you have to leave out because of the strike that you won’t be able to get back to?
I don’t think that there’s anything that just got basically junked. There’s stuff that got truncated, so you’re getting the Cliff’s Notes version of the story. Whereas there might have been an entire episode that was Charlotte’s flashbacks if there hadn’t been a strike, now you get the story but not the flashbacks. I think the complete jettisoning of a story plan would take the whole Jenga tower down. We have to do all that stuff to get to where we’re going. Nothing was so expendable that you could just say we couldn’t get to do this. The show would suffer for it. But the Michael story, we wanted to do something that was more redemptive for him than staying with the bomb and allowing Jin to get to the deck as he was spraying liquid nitrogen onto it. But it ended up having to be that, as opposed to something that was probably more heroic, more emotional, by virtue of the fact that we had to collapse our time frame. Originally, we were going to do an hour less than we wound up doing, and we had to beg for that. We were still rolling film, like, 11 days before it was on the air. It was all we could do to cram everything in there, and you go, “What are the major story points you can play?” and you need to connect the dots. The primary story focus was on the Oceanic Six, and everyone else had to defer. We had to explain how Jin died, and so that gave us less time for Michael’s redemptive arc, and we regret that.
This Saturday Harold Perrineau (Michael Dawson on Lost) will be performing at CityWalk’s free “Plugged In” summer concert series, which features a lineup of live music by L.A.’s hottest bands every weekend throughout the summer, from July 9-Aug 29.
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