Back to 'Lost'
| Special: Lost in Hawai'i |
| Reaping lost rewards |
By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service
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As Season 3 of "Lost" resumes, the writers say, it's moving back to its main story.
When the six-episode stretch ended, Jack (a surgeon) had Ben (leader of The Others) on the operating table. He used that advantage to force the release of Kate and Sawyer.
Everything promptly changes, co-creator Damon Lindelof says, "as a result of what Jack does." Now the original cast will get more screen time.
Along the way, however, fans will get to know these other characters better. They include:
Cusick is a Scotsman who was born in Peru and spent much of his childhood in Trinidad with international playmates along the beach. It may have been the ideal background for his current role. "We have this very international cast," he says.
"Lost" has a deeply layered story the kind that is popular in other countries. But "Lost" is done in an epic, U.S. style. "Only in America do you do this," Cusick said. "You learn to do it big."
For the "Lost" producers, anything is possible. Flashbacks seem to span the globe Korea, Australia, the U.S. and more. All are filmed in Hawai'i, most on O'ahu.
For the start of this season "Lost" needed a little, cookie-cutter village where The Others live.
"That actually is a YMCA camp" (in Mokule'ia), says producer-director Jack Bender.
"Our production designer was able to make it more Dharma-esque," Bender says, referring to "The Dharma Initiative," a research project begun on the island long before the plane crashed.
That's the "Lost" style international angst in the jungle with confusion, hope and despair, plus strangers in a Dharma-esque village. And now the show is returning to its original style.