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  2007.12.17. 10:04

 

Yeah, you mean in the theatre? I hope so, because I miss it very much, and of course now that I'm having a long holliday in New York I'm going to see shows every night, and I'm thinking "Oh, my god, I have to get back to doing this", so I hope soon, maybe this coming summer in New York. I hope so.

 

 

It doesn't look good. They're very apart on terms and I think even further apart in personalities, so it will be difficult. I don't know what that means exactly for Lost. We are shut down completely, the crew has been let go, we'll have to re-hire and it will get some time to get started again. I hope it's soon.

 

 

Oh, yeah, yeah. I have to support the writers because they are the vangard of the very same battle that the actors and directors will be with  this coming summer. So all the creative union needs to stick together to get a little piece of this huge new industry that will be internet entertainment. So it's very important and it can't be put off. It has to be solved now or it never will be and the industry will never be the same.

 

 

I don't even think of it in those terms! I have played some fine shakesperian parts, an actor is always proud to say that he has played Hamlet, or that he has played Romeo, or Benedict, you know, some of the great shakesperian roles. Those are wonderful. The finest stage role I've played I think was the character of Oscar Wilde, en Gross Indecency. I have a fondness in my heart for it because it was sort of the role that got me in the door of show bussiness. And I have had some fine roles on television. The one I'm playing now, Ben Linus on Lost, it's kind of a great character.

 

 

I wasn't an actor for a long time. I always wanted to be. Acting is my second carreer, I was an illustrator before I became an actor, but  ever since I was a child I've wanted to be an actor, and I'm glad that I finally got to do it. Even as a child I was naturally oriented towards storytelling, I guess, and I found some other boys that were older than me in school plays, and I thought it was so wonderful and so cool, and I hoped that someday I could be that cool.

 

 

I do, yeah, because I like to see how they completed it, I like to see the finished product, and also to look and see how did I do, and I also study it to see how it's edited, or how the music works, so that I can maybe make improvements in my own work.

 

 

Yes. I didn't watch it every week, but my wife watched it every week, religiously.

 

 

Oh, yeah. There will always be a feeling of mistery in the show, and I don't think the viewers would really want it to be any other way. But yeah, I think the biggest questions that people have will be answered by the end of the program.

 

 

In a way, that makes it easier for me, I don't have to worry about good and bad. All I have to do is show up and play the scene. And play it in a short of a neutral gear, that ends up working  just fine.

 

 

The best part is that people pay attention to the character, and that he has a sense of mistery. I like being a character who is misterious. The worst part... I think the worst part is being misunderstood, people want to think that he's the villain of the show, but I'm now sure that will turn out to be true.

 

 

Yes, originally. When they first called me, I was supossed to do three episodes, and then go home. 

 

 

I don't know! I think it was sort of a trial, they wanted to see how the character worked, they wanted to see if it was as good  an idea as they thought it was and I think they found out that it was a good idea, so they kept me around.

 

 

I think that, like all real people, he's a little bit of both. And I think a lot of what we think is rudelessness will one day be explained when we find out who their real adversaries are and how very dangerous they are.

 

 

I think I do. I think I tend to be a cool head, rather than an emotional person, and I think I'm a good listener, and Ben is certainly a good listener. I'm nowhere near as good a planner as he is, tho, which is a shame. It must be nice to have things sorted out so much time in advance.

 

 

I think the viewers are going to find them very exciting, for a couple of reasons. One is that the story is now going to be told in three time dimensions, rather than  two. It used to be present, and flashbacks. Now it's present, flashbacks and flashforwards. I think that makes something really exciting, and it makes Lost even more complicated, which I think it's fun. Also, the situation on the island is very unstable right now. No one has a home, The Others have lost their homes, the Castaways have lost their camp, everyone's on foot, everyone's hot and thirsty, and there's a lot of violence in the air, and now we know that a new group is coming, someone very dangerous and very frigthening. So I think the stakes are high. I think we're getting to a place that's very dramatic in the show.

 

 

Gee... It would be fun to be Juliet, I think she's really scary.

 

 

(laughs). I also used to admire Mr. Eko very much. That's a really cool character. I'm sorry that he's gone.

 

 

 

I have never heard it. I would love to hear it.

 

 

I think some people are never meant to be normal. And I think Ben is one of those. Ben was born into a life, somehow,  that he was destined to live, and I don't know that Ben could ever be happy in a place that was more comfortable or less dangerous. 

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