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12-08-04, 08:53 PM
Holloway finds recognition as bad guy on ABC hit `Lost'
Recently, Josh Holloway, who plays sexy con man Sawyer on ``Lost'' (tonight at 8 on WCVB, Ch. 5), got a little emotional.
He read the script that featured Sawyer's complicated back story on ABC's hit drama and wanted to express his gratitude to the series' creators.
``I remember calling J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof and trying to sound all cool and thank them for the opportunity, but by the end I got choked up on both of them,'' Holloway said during a recent telephone interview. ``I had to hang up. I lost my coolness there.''
His spontaneous outpouring of emotions is understandable.
``Eight years in this town, they've broken me in half so many times,'' he said. ``I find myself in a heap on the floor going, `You know what? Give up this dream, dude. It's done. They're killing you.' I've gotten so close for so many years on so many things. I've done seven independent movies, so I was doing about a movie a year. I'd just get a taste and just a little encouragement from the universe to continue. It was just enough to keep me in.''
Now, as part of the surprise success of the season, Holloway is constantly recognized.
``It's an adjustment period. It's phenomenal, really. It's kind of fun and a little overwhelming and scary. It's a journey, boy, but the beauty of it is to get to actually work and actually express what you've been working on for so long and to do it weekly. I'm learning. I want to get better. I don't see myself as there in any way. It's just the very beginning.''
While trying to launch his acting career, the former model had a development company in his home state of Georgia and a French-Vietnamese restaurant in Los Angeles. He was on the set of a sitcom when he got the script for ``Lost'' during Hollywood's frantic pilot season.
``I didn't know really the significance of it,'' Holloway said. ``I was just in that mode of reading constantly. I went into the reading, and about halfway through the monologue, I hit a bump. And you have to kind of regroup. So I slammed a chair into the wall. I kicked it across the room and took a moment, and it all came back to me and I went on, and I think that was what made them see the character.''
Since the show's premiere, a potentially steamy love triangle has developed between Sawyer, Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and the show's requisite hero, Jack (Matthew Fox).
``Matthew Fox and I are kind of alpha males. I like the competition. We're like, `Yeah, who's gonna get the girl, man.' Matt's a wonderful man and a family man. We approach our work similarly. We really like to bring the heat, so it's fun. But you know girls like a bad boy.''
That they do. The love triangle already has sparked heated debates among the show's followers and begun to make a sex symbol out of the recently wed Holloway.
``I don't know how to feel about that,'' he said. ``I see that that is Sawyer's role to a point, but I don't view myself that way at all. I'm a dude, and I think my chin is big and my body ain't Brad Pitt.''
Like the show's devout fans, Holloway is kept in the dark about upcoming plot developments.
``We are working for the CIA here - I'm sure of it. We are on a need-to-know, man, and I love that. I love the courage of J.J. and Damon and all the writers. They trust in our ability to produce without much prep. They love real moments. They don't want it contrived, and they don't want to give us too much information. They want to see us discover it and watch us struggle on camera.''
But don't expect Sawyer to become a nice guy anytime soon.
``I have to fight for his humanity,'' Holloway said. ``The island is a big mirror for all the characters. This struggle with our own humanity and the choices we've made in the past and the ones we're gonna make now. It's a struggle with the past and the present. So it parallels my life right now a bit. I struggle as an actor to open up, to have more courage, to let it fly and make different choices and trust, and that's Sawyer's struggle. I love the parallel with that.
``So I really fight for his humanity, but I also fight for the integrity of his character. I don't want him to lose his edge. I don't want him to become the nice guy all of the sudden and friends with everybody. That would be a drag. I don't want him to become all soft. No way.''
Courtesy of The Boston Herald
Recently, Josh Holloway, who plays sexy con man Sawyer on ``Lost'' (tonight at 8 on WCVB, Ch. 5), got a little emotional.
He read the script that featured Sawyer's complicated back story on ABC's hit drama and wanted to express his gratitude to the series' creators.
``I remember calling J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof and trying to sound all cool and thank them for the opportunity, but by the end I got choked up on both of them,'' Holloway said during a recent telephone interview. ``I had to hang up. I lost my coolness there.''
His spontaneous outpouring of emotions is understandable.
``Eight years in this town, they've broken me in half so many times,'' he said. ``I find myself in a heap on the floor going, `You know what? Give up this dream, dude. It's done. They're killing you.' I've gotten so close for so many years on so many things. I've done seven independent movies, so I was doing about a movie a year. I'd just get a taste and just a little encouragement from the universe to continue. It was just enough to keep me in.''
Now, as part of the surprise success of the season, Holloway is constantly recognized.
``It's an adjustment period. It's phenomenal, really. It's kind of fun and a little overwhelming and scary. It's a journey, boy, but the beauty of it is to get to actually work and actually express what you've been working on for so long and to do it weekly. I'm learning. I want to get better. I don't see myself as there in any way. It's just the very beginning.''
While trying to launch his acting career, the former model had a development company in his home state of Georgia and a French-Vietnamese restaurant in Los Angeles. He was on the set of a sitcom when he got the script for ``Lost'' during Hollywood's frantic pilot season.
``I didn't know really the significance of it,'' Holloway said. ``I was just in that mode of reading constantly. I went into the reading, and about halfway through the monologue, I hit a bump. And you have to kind of regroup. So I slammed a chair into the wall. I kicked it across the room and took a moment, and it all came back to me and I went on, and I think that was what made them see the character.''
Since the show's premiere, a potentially steamy love triangle has developed between Sawyer, Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and the show's requisite hero, Jack (Matthew Fox).
``Matthew Fox and I are kind of alpha males. I like the competition. We're like, `Yeah, who's gonna get the girl, man.' Matt's a wonderful man and a family man. We approach our work similarly. We really like to bring the heat, so it's fun. But you know girls like a bad boy.''
That they do. The love triangle already has sparked heated debates among the show's followers and begun to make a sex symbol out of the recently wed Holloway.
``I don't know how to feel about that,'' he said. ``I see that that is Sawyer's role to a point, but I don't view myself that way at all. I'm a dude, and I think my chin is big and my body ain't Brad Pitt.''
Like the show's devout fans, Holloway is kept in the dark about upcoming plot developments.
``We are working for the CIA here - I'm sure of it. We are on a need-to-know, man, and I love that. I love the courage of J.J. and Damon and all the writers. They trust in our ability to produce without much prep. They love real moments. They don't want it contrived, and they don't want to give us too much information. They want to see us discover it and watch us struggle on camera.''
But don't expect Sawyer to become a nice guy anytime soon.
``I have to fight for his humanity,'' Holloway said. ``The island is a big mirror for all the characters. This struggle with our own humanity and the choices we've made in the past and the ones we're gonna make now. It's a struggle with the past and the present. So it parallels my life right now a bit. I struggle as an actor to open up, to have more courage, to let it fly and make different choices and trust, and that's Sawyer's struggle. I love the parallel with that.
``So I really fight for his humanity, but I also fight for the integrity of his character. I don't want him to lose his edge. I don't want him to become the nice guy all of the sudden and friends with everybody. That would be a drag. I don't want him to become all soft. No way.''
Courtesy of The Boston Herald