Thursday, May 04, 2006
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Rule #2: You do NOT mess with the Lost producers.
Apparently Cynthia Watros (Titus, Spin City) and Michelle Rodriguez (Girl Fight, Blue Crush)should have been a tad bit more careful after being arrested early on during the production of season 2 of Lost. They were added to the cast as people who were on the tail section of the plane that broke off on the other side of the island. They added a new twist to the show that apparently only works so long as you stay sobre.
They were arrested on separate DUI charges within minutes of each other. Watros got a slap on the wrist and Rodriguez just finished up a three-day stint in jail. This can only add to her bad-girl image that she's desperately trying to cultivate.
Well, she'll have plenty of time.
Last night on Lost, they got "arrowed" but good. Michael, returning from the jungle where he was searching for his abducted son, offered to kill the Losties prisoner for Ana-Lucia (Rodriguez) when she couldn't follow through. So she hands him the gun, he apologizes, and shoots her in the chest. DEADED! Then Libby (Watros) walks in the room, surprising Michael, who turns and gives her a couple of bullets. DEADED (maybe)!
Exciting stuff. Michael sets the prisoner free then shoots himself. Personally, I think he's been forced to do it, but we'll see soon enough.
The amusing part of all of this is that the writing was on the wall for these two actresses. Watros signed on to a pilot (kind of a Will & Grace/Lois & Clark thing) as GRACE but trades listed her as a 'guest-star' due to her Lost commitments. Sounds like the new pilot was being nice to the Lost producers and didn't want to give anything away. Still, how could a TITLE CHARACTER be listed as a guest-star?
Over at TV Guide.com, Michael Ausiello ran an interview with show-runners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof who claim that their exit has been in the cards the whole time."A lot of this is going to sound like spin, so all we can give you is our word that this is exactly what happened," Lindelof says. "She made it very clear in that meeting that she's sort of a nomadic spirit and she did not want to commit to doing any more than [one season]. She wanted to do one kickass arc, as she described it, and we basically started to wrap our brains around her energy and say, "Yeah, we'll bring you on the show and then we'll kill you off at the end of the year." And she was totally cool with it and we were totally cool with it."
Cuse agrees that the timing was unfortunate. "Then she got this DUI and Damon and I looked at each other and we were like, "Oh, great. Everybody is going to think we're killing her off because she got a DUI." But there really wasn't anything we could do about that. I mean, the story was set. We had made plans."
Lindelof also knew fans were going to react as Libby gets shot at the same time. "It was like "oh shit." Both Michelle and Cynthia were busted the same night for DUI and we've got this story point coming up where they essentially both get shot at the same time, so it's going to look like this is the Lost producers attempt to say, 'Don't drive drunk!'"
Well? Is it spin, conspiracy, bad timing? Who cares, really. I just want to see the next episode.
ARROW'D!!!
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