«Lost»: a little-known

Recently, the series "Lost» (Lost) celebrated its tenth anniversary. For the first time this project was aired on NBC in September 2004, but still complicated story passengers of flight 815 of Oceanic Airlines is a benchmark of the genre of modern Robinson Crusoe. Somehow to celebrate the anniversary of our beloved TV project, we decided to collect for you 15 little-known but interesting facts about this exceptional show.





1. Jon Hamm ("A Young Doctor's Notebook» / A Young Doctor's Notebook) auditioned for the role of Jack Shepard, which eventually went to Matthew Fox.



2. In the pilot episode as Dr. Jack Shephard had to play Michael Keaton ("Batman"). According to the script, his character died in the beginning, but later the producers decided to extend the life of Jack. When Keaton learned about this, turned down the role, not to be so long attached to one project.



3. It is assumed that the role of Sawyer get Forest Whitaker ("Butler"), but the latter refused to withdraw his comic melodrama "First Daughter." Then in his place producers invited Josh Holloway.



4. Jorge Garcia (Hurley) during filming was forced to always lock your mailbox lock. The only way he could be sure that no one steals sent him the script for new episodes.



5. Almost all the actors to get roles in the TV series, during the casting had to read cues Sawyer. So it was with Jorge Garcia, Matthew Fox and Dominic Monaghan. The thing is that at the time the rest of the images of the secondary characters were not yet sufficiently mature



6. It is symbolic that the first episode, flashback dedicated Locke called "Hike» (Walkabout). The fact that the actor Terry O'Quinn come every day to the shooting distance and just got home. His whole journey took about 12 kilometers. Never tell him that he had something can not



7. Dominic Monaghan easy was given a scene in which his character Charlie holds a prohibited substance. According to the actor, in order to better capture the emotions of his character, he was inspired by the work of Andy Serkis, who had in the form of Gollum go all out during the filming of "The Lord of the Rings»



8. Initially, the company Dharma Initiative called Medusa Corp. However, later this title has removed a dangerous spider that was found on the Island. Fans of the series will remember that venom of this spider is able to paralyze a person for eight hours, and then even an experienced doctor can not detect a heartbeat bitten. When this insect has bitten Nikki (Kiel Sanchez) and Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro), the remaining survivors thought they were dead, and buried them alive.



9. In one scene, Claire (Emilie de Ravin) can not soothe a crying Aaron Locke and then gives her some helpful tips about swaddling infants. Ironically, who lived in the XVII century British philosopher and educator John Locke held opposing views on the care of the kids and was a staunch opponent of swaddling.



10. Jennifer Jason Leigh ("Dolores Claiborne") refused to play the role of Elizabeth "Libby" Smith in the second season of the show. Then the vacant seat was invited actress Cynthia Watros.



11. As we mentioned above, in the first case scenario, Jack had to die back in the pilot episode. When the writers changed their minds, it entailed a lot of changes in the fate of the other characters. For example, the creators of the show planned to show Kate (Evangeline Lilly) as a 30-year-old businesswoman who lost her husband in a plane crash and became the leader of a group of survivors after Jack's death. However, the hero Matthew Fox is still alive, and Kate turned into a lonely woman with a criminal record.



It is interesting that the writers decided to use "unsuitable" ideas for other characters - Rose (L. Scott Caldwell) and Bernard (Sam Anderson).



12. Before working on the sixth season of the entire production team and actors blessed Hawaiian priest.

13. Writers often used anagrams in the design of different scenes. For example, in the finale of the third season, Jack attends the funeral home «Hoffs / Drawlar». In this title, you can guess the phrase flash-forward, which is a hint of an ambiguous ending of the episode, in which viewers are watching the future, not the past



In the fourth series of the fifth season of the coffin Locke transported in a van with the logo «Canton-Reiner». Rearrange the letters, we get the word reincarnation (reincarnation).

14. Sawyer and Claire - the only character who came to the island in the first episode and did not leave it until the end of the series.



15. Who are all the same shot at Sawyer and Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) in the series "The Little Prince» (The Little Prince)? Producer Damon Lindelof once mentioned that they took the stage to answer that question, but it was cut during installation. Just then the writers thought it would be much steeper leave viewers without explanation. This scene is still gathering dust in the secret archives of the creators of the series, and Lindelof do not exclude the possibility that one day she can float on any charity auction.

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