Terry in the media

[chrisberni]

Post announcements and discussions of Terry's upcoming or past appearances in the media (TV, radio, magazines etc.) in this thread.

[chrisberni]

rosalind711

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terry on good day live
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He is on tv now, on good day live.

[chrisberni]

A very cool article (http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050224/ap/d88f68k80.html) about Terry by AP!

Excerpt:
As the mysterious Locke on ABC's suspenseful "Lost," Terry O'Quinn glories in his rich role. Locke, of course, was stranded on a tropical island with dozens of other passengers after their jetliner crashed in the opener. Since then, he has emerged as the series' mystical patriarch, a shamanic presence living his back-to-nature dream after a lifetime spent as a clerical schlub. Or is he just a nut job acting out a long Wild Man Weekend? Or a psycho ready to blow?

[dsera]

I was just coming to post the same article, just from another source.....good thing I checked yours first!

www.usatoday.com/life/peo...uinn_x.htm (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-02-25-lost-oquinn_x.htm)

[jcrew1179]

Here's an article about Locke on CNN:

www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/...index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/02/apontv.lost.terryoquinn.ap/index.html)

[nmiaisland]

Cover story and a good interview with Terry O'Quinn in May 19-25 of BACK STAGE WEST, The Actors Resource, which is a trade publication. We got it off a news stand in Seattle, but they have an online edition. Here is the link (http://www.backstage.com/backstage/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000927699) to the article.

The print edition has photos that the online version skips, including what looks like a new one of him with his (now) famous smile, and looking relaxed and happy. Better than the one they used online.

[Mattie]

Thanks.

[PhantomPhase]

I just read an interview with Terry in this weeks TV Guide. He said he no longer reads fan forums cause he agrees with most of the criticism of how his character was handled this season. Pretty Interesting.

[Brian]

Yeah, some in the Spoiler forum have been trying to find that article online somewhere and can't. I'm glad he agrees with us. I'd really be worried if he didn't. Not like we matter though, who the hell are we, we just watch LOST. Silly fans.

[moonshadow707]

Yeah, some in the Spoiler forum have been trying to find that article online somewhere and can't.
You mean nobody is willing to just buy the TV Guide?:)

I just read that article today. The quote from Terry that I liked best was this:
"If I hadn't met my wife when I was 27, I'd be an old, sick alcoholic living in a small, dirty apartment with a huge pornography collection."
Gotta love Terry.

[Brian]

You mean nobody is willing to just buy the TV Guide?:)
Oh, that's not a problem at all. The trouble comes when I hold it up to my monitor so everyone else can read it. ;)

Seriously, I have no problem buying it, I was just trying to find the link so we could have it here in the TOQ Media thread. :)

[Darko]

I saw him in a film.. or episode of something not so long enough, I forget what its called but he played a drunk father who had split with his family. Proof to me of a good actor is if I dont see there 'main roles' in there acting. For example if I was to see a film with David Radcliffe and didnt think right away "Harry potter!". With this film/episode I accepted him as the role, and not just as "Hey! Its Locke!".. Thus, good actor!

[Brian]

I just got the new TV-Guide 'cause TOQ was on the cover. I haven't read the entire LOST article yet, but there was a little sub-article where they asked TOQ a couple of questions that I thought was great. I went to tvguide.com to find a link to the article, but they don't have it up yet. It's the July 24-30, 2006 issue of TV-Guide with TOQ on the cover.

Here's a transcript of the interview:

Terry O'Quinn Unlocks Locke

TVGuide - What's your favorite fan reaction?
TOQ - I like it when they argue, "What's Locke's problem? Is he evil or not?" That's all good. At least they're feeling something.
TVGuide - What the most challenging part of the role?
TOQ - Accepting that anybody wears his heart on his sleeve to the extent he does. I'm a lot more skeptical than Locke. He seems to get his heart broken every other week. I get tired of it. [Laughs] He's the world's biggest sucker, bless his heart. He just wants to love something and have faith in something, and he keeps getting it wrong. I miss that first-season Locke, who hunted boar and had the answers. I don't know where he went, but I miss him and I hope he comes back.

I told y'all it was a short sub-article. :) I'm glad to hear that TOQ feels the same way a majority of us Locke fans do about the character.

[Hodgepodge]

...Here's a transcript of the interview:

Terry O'Quinn Unlocks Locke

TVGuide - What's your favorite fan reaction?
TOQ - I like it when they argue, "What's Locke's problem? Is he evil or not?" That's all good. At least they're feeling something.
TVGuide - What the most challenging part of the role?
TOQ - Accepting that anybody wears his heart on his sleeve to the extent he does. I'm a lot more skeptical than Locke. He seems to get his heart broken every other week. I get tired of it. [Laughs] He's the world's biggest sucker, bless his heart. He just wants to love something and have faith in something, and he keeps getting it wrong. I miss that first-season Locke, who hunted boar and had the answers. I don't know where he went, but I miss him and I hope he comes back.

I told y'all it was a short sub-article. :) I'm glad to hear that TOQ feels the same way a majority of us Locke fans do about the character.Leuthen, if we have another Locke season like S2, I wouldn't expect TOQ to stay around. He's to good of an actor to accept writing mediocrity.

[mystwoman]

Yes and TOQ is not the only character whole persona has suffered.
I bet Hollloway wishes he'd taken the Xmen 3 role now.

[Brian]

Leuthen, if we have another Locke season like S2, I wouldn't expect TOQ to stay around. He's to good of an actor to accept writing mediocrity.
Unfortunately, I agree Hodge. It's a bad sign when an actor starts using terms like "I get tired of it." Hopefully the outcry from the fans as well statements like this one from TOQ are starting to open the eyes of TPTB and they'll fix him this season. If they fail, or choose not too, then I suspect TOQ will go the way of Ian, Maggie, Michelle, and Cynthia.

[Susan B Anthony]

If TPTB have any sense (and I'm not willing to weigh in on that question) they will do what is necessary to keep TOQ around. LOST without Locke is like Dallas without JR. Yes, it is an ensemble show, but you still have to have a few anchors. I don't see the Jate-Skate-Hate-Bernate soap sustaining the show for long.

The good news is, from what I retained from my check-out line reading (too cheap to buy it), JJ Abrams says he will have more of a hand in S3, including directing and writing some episodes. We can only hope this will bring the show back to its S1 glory.

I'm starting to know how Locke felt when he snapped at Jack, "It has never been easy." I am looking forward to, but almost dreading the start of S3. I predict we will know within about 3 episodes whether we are back on track or still bogged down in the S2 quagmire.

Keep the faith, people.

[Brian]

Keep the faith, people.
You know that we, or at least I, will! :)

[juanbong]

Waterston, Heche among sci fi "Masters" (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/va/20060804/115470540400.html;_ylt=AnGtceT1CixSC7K86T37Np2RsVo B)Friday August 4 8:30 AM ET

Judy Davis, Sam Waterston and Anne Heche are among the long list of actors who have signed on to star in episodes of ABC's upcoming anthology series "Masters of Science Fiction."

Malcolm McDowell, James Cromwell, John Hurt, Sean Astin and Brian Dennehy also have signed on to star in installments of the six-episode series, which is based on short stories by some of the sci-fi genre's top writers. The hour-long show is set to air during the 2006-07 season.

Other actors starring in episodes are Terry O'Quinn (ABC's "Lost") ,Elisabeth Rohm (NBC's "Law & Order"), Clifton Collins Jr. (ABC's "Alias"), Kimberly Elise (CBS' "Close to Home") and James Denton (ABC's "Desperate Housewives").

In addition, physicist-professor Stephen Hawking will introduce each episode of the show, which is filmed on location in Vancouver, B.C.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

[mystwoman]

The LAX at latimes.com this sunday has a feature on Terry o Quinn and locke in the West magazine or somewhere inside . Heads up!

[Hodgepodge]

Moving to the Terry O'Quinn - Locke forum. Please follow the link for a discussion.

[Brian]

I had to wait until The Man From Tallahassee aired before I could move this here. Enjoy! :Cheers:

(Originally posted by turnip head.)

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Terry O'Quinn Teases a "Spectacular" Lost Reveal!
by Matt Webb Mitovich
Terry O'Quinn, Lost

The link is here (http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Interviews-Features/Article/default.aspx?posting={67176138-FEC7-40AA-818B-09DC1F95A44A})

The origin of Jack's tattoos? Puh-lease. On this Wednesday's Lost (10 pm/ET, on ABC), longtime fans will get the answer to a far more provocative mystery: What paralyzed John Locke and landed him in a wheelchair in the first place? Terry O'Quinn shared with TVGuide.com a sneak peek. Plus, the original cast member's thoughts on airing next season without a break.

TVGuide.com: According to the ABC summary for this episode, "Ben tries to persuade a determined Locke to call off his destructive plan by offering him some of the secrets of the island." What can you tease about Locke's plan?
Terry O'Quinn: Nothing. [Laughs] I don't know how to do teases. There are no revelations I can give you because I'm not careful enough. I don't know what's safe to say or what's not safe to say.

TVGuide.com: Which island secrets would you say Locke is most interested in? What would be the best carrot for Ben to dangle?
O'Quinn: Probably anything that points toward the origin of the power he perceives the island to have, where it comes from. How do the Others fit into it and how can he fit into it and make it work and preserve and protect it?

TVGuide.com: Right, because Locke's always been of the mindset that the island itself is some sort of entity to be reckoned with.
O'Quinn: As unclear as everything is, that's what he would like to believe.

TVGuide.com: We're going to find out why Locke was in a wheelchair. How did that reveal rate with you, and how do you think fans will take to it?
O'Quinn: I thought it was pretty good. To me it was never about how he ended up in the wheelchair, but the simple fact that he was in it and that he was released from it [after the crash]. But then people seemed to think that it was a big deal how it happened, and I was afraid that the revelation would be pretty pedestrian and might be a disappointment — kind of like sex, you know? [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: Are the circumstances of his paralysis tied into another castaway's backstory?
O'Quinn: I don't know if that's the case or not.... But I think [the reveal] is pretty spectacular. I don't think people will be disappointed. It stretches that suspension of disbelief just like so many things on Lost do, but if you're willing to go along with it, it's pretty cool.

TVGuide.com: Yeah, one of Lost's first "wow" moments was in that Australia travel agency, when we first saw that he was in the wheelchair, so it'd be neat to come full circle on that story.
O'Quinn: Yeah. I think there are a couple of "wow" moments, a couple of big moments in this episode.

TVGuide.com: I see a few detectives on the guest-cast list. Are they a part of his backstory?
O'Quinn: Yeah. Yeah.

TVGuide.com: Do you feel like the show has been improving the beach-versus-Others balance as of late?
O'Quinn: I really don't know where it's going. After talking to the producers or the writers a few times, depending on your persistence you realize that it's an exercise in futility — especially if you call with an agenda, if you say you want something to happen, or... they're going to write what they're going to write, and they've got the story planned out to the extent that they can't take major detours to satisfy any particular actor.

TVGuide.com: Or to satisfy any fan base, or the audience at large.
O'Quinn: That's probably who I would listen to a little bit more, but that's the road to destruction, too, because then you wander around trying to please this person and then please that person. I think they have to go with what they go with. I don't know any actor who would say, "This show would be better if there were less of me in it." [Laughs] I like my work and I love the character, so I would like to do it more, but they've got a lot of balls to keep in the air.

TVGuide.com: When do you enjoy playing Locke the most?
O'Quinn: When I get to sit down or walk and talk with another character, where I actually get to talk to somebody about "normal" things, about human emotion or things like that. I haven't gotten to do a lot of that lately, because Locke sort of has his own agenda and is on his own mission, and it's pretty private. But I've always enjoyed where the stories overlapped, the scenes where I get to reach into other people's stories and have some input.

TVGuide.com: I'm reminded of when we realized Locke was building a crib for Claire.
O'Quinn: Right. I can only respond as the actor, but Locke had this feeling in the first season, which when he saw the hatch he thought, "Maybe this is the answer, something that I can get a hold of and will help me keep that feeling," but once he [entered] the hatch, he basically lost it. Ever since then, he's been scrambling to get it back, and sometimes not so cleverly, sometimes not so gracefully. But that's what he wants to find again and preserve. That and a little love! My impression is that he wants to belong, that he wants to have faith in someone.

TVGuide.com: Maybe the next Dharma parcel drop can include Katey Sagal.
Quinn: [Laughs] I'm not sure if that's the answer or not.

TVGuide.com: This season we had six episodes, then a long break. What would be the ramifications for the cast if for Season 4, ABC wanted to air the entire run straight through, 24-style?
O'Quinn: Personally, I think it would be wonderful. This series is so much like a film in its production values and its storytelling, I would think that was spot-on. I would say, "Let's do it all in a row, not do reruns, not do holes, but make it consistent and reliable so that people can watch it and keep track of it." [As for this season] I would have gone 12 [episodes] and 12. What [the actual schedule] didn't do was tie everybody into the new season, it basically focused on the Others and Jack and Sawyer and Kate. It was a bit unbalanced both in terms of the number of episodes and in terms of the presentation of the characters, I thought.

TVGuide.com: Regarding the situation earlier this season with Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko): With the Lost production isolated out there in the remotes of Hawaii, does that make it harder for a newcomer to mesh with the cast?
O'Quinn: That wouldn't surprise me, if that were the case. Initially, everybody was pretty tight — people hung out together and stuff, although I am geographically far away from the rest of the cast. But I think that might be the case because people now have found their own niches. If you come here, you're pretty much isolated. People here are already sort of past that [hanging out] stage, so if you get shipped out here from California to work on this show, you're kind of on your own. You'll be staying in a hotel downtown, and it's not like you're going to be hanging out a lot with other cast members necessarily. So I could see how if it's important for you to fit in and socialize with the people with whom you work, it wouldn't be as easy here, and you wouldn't have a lot of options here.

TVGuide.com: You're in one of ABC's Masters of Science Fiction episodes, airing later this year. What can you say about it?
O'Quinn: It's probably very Locke-like, the character, and the situation is another one of those things where the person has had hard knocks and has a test of fate. [The exact plot] is a sin to reveal, but this guy is a retired sort of NASA problem solver, and he had tremendous personal loss, and something really remarkable begins to happen in the Middle East to the warriors from all sides. They can't solve it, so they come to this guy to figure it out.

TVGuide.com: Are you a science-fiction fan by nature?
O'Quinn: Not really. The closer it can get to reality, the more likely I am to cotton to it.

TVGuide.com: So it's not like you're lobbying J.J. Abrams to include you in his Star Trek film?
O'Quinn: Nooo... I'm not lobbying J.J. Abrams at all. I never really did. J.J. Abrams told me, while I was doing Alias for peanuts, that one day we would work together and he would get me a regular part on one of his series, and he came through just like he said he would, which I get the impression is the exception in Hollywood. He just called me and offered me this job, and it came along at just the right time. I said yes without any quibbles.

TVGuide.com: It was in the news that ABC is premiering in May a celebrity-impersonators reality series — and I understand you do a mean Neil Young....
O'Quinn: Oh, I used to. Back in the day, I used to. But Neil Young, his voice doesn't change too much, he still sounds like he did when I was in college. I don't! My voice is a bit heavier, deeper now. But I can still play his songs!

[lostchick]

This story is all about Locke

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-lost25mar25,1,161259.story?coll=la-entnews-tv

[Susan B Anthony]

Really interesting article. Thanks, Lostchick!

[DharmaBum01]

No mystery why he's at the heart of 'Lost'
By Maria Elena Fernandez, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 25, 2007

[Spoiler alert: the article contains nothing spoilerish if you've already watched Episode 3.13 The Man from Tallahassee. That is, unless you don't want to read quotes from Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cruse, or Terry O'Quinn — all of whom were interviewed for the article.]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-lost25mar25,1,161259.story?coll=la-entnews-tv&ctrack=1&cset=true

IN the last two episodes of "Lost," John Locke told a few lies, killed an "Other," blew up a hatch full of communication devices and then set off more explosives in the Others' submarine to prevent anyone from leaving or arriving on the island. It's a far cry from the weeks he spent in a hole in the ground last season, punching computer buttons, only to emerge feeling like he wasted his time.

"Lost" mythology has cast Locke, played by the Emmy-nominated Terry O'Quinn, as the show's most enigmatic character. When Locke has his mojo, it seems, so does "Lost." In fact, the arc of Locke, and even O'Quinn's own story, closely parallel the highs and lows of the ABC serialized ensemble drama that changed television three years ago. Now, 80 days into the journey of the plane crash survivors, what most viewers intuited from the beginning seems to hold true: Locke is one important dude.

But is he the most significant castaway? The creators of "Lost" would never say anything that definitively, but they were willing to offer a glimpse of the way they've embedded some of the series' most telling elements in his story from the beginning. Co-creator Damon Lindelof confirms that in the end, Locke will be among the ones who matter most. Executive producer Carlton Cuse added this, with all the finality he could muster: "The character of John Locke is just the very heart of the show."

When Locke boarded Oceanic Flight 815, he was in a wheelchair. But when the plane crashed, he could mysteriously walk, and that seemed to bond him to the island forever. Wednesday's episode finally revealed to viewers how he became paralyzed: His con artist of a father, who years ago manipulated Locke into giving him a kidney, pushed him out a high-rise window, hoping to kill him. Then it did what "Lost" does. It delivered another whopper: Locke's father is tied up and gagged on "Other" territory.

"That was a big 'What?!' " O'Quinn said, describing how he felt when he first read the script. "It leaves you with a big question mark, but there was plenty revealed in this episode too."

Mysteries, loads of them, are the hallmark of this ABC series, sometimes frustratingly so. Since "Lost" returned in February from its three-month hiatus in a new 10 p.m. slot, it has shed nearly 2 million viewers, though it continues to rank as a top 10 show among the advertiser-coveted 18- to 49-year-olds.

As a fan of his own show, O'Quinn says he understands the audience's frustrations with schedule changes and the questions that outnumber the answers in the series, a dilemma brought on mostly by the flashback device that focuses on one character per week and the large number of characters.

"If I take Locke's story individually and just follow it from its beginning point to now, to me it's cohesive and it's understandable and it's interesting," O'Quinn said. "But because there are so many people, it's very patchy. It comes in fits and starts, and that's tough for the fans of the show to have to work to tie everything together."

Strong man

IN the first season, Locke was a self-assured survivor who motivated Jack (Matthew Fox) to leadership, helped Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) work through his heroin addiction, built a crib for Claire's (Emilie de Ravin) baby and insisted that they blow open the hatchway. The unflinching Locke also sacrificed fellow castaway Boone's life, deliberately broke a transceiver, won his round against the menacing polar bear and dared to look inside "the eye of the island."

"I would get mail and e-mails from people that said the character had given them hope," O'Quinn said. "It was touching, and I thought the character was serene and strong. But then he became weak and addled, and I was upset that a strong card had become a weak card."

After the castaways went down the hatch in the second season, Locke was more than happy to save the world by pushing a button every 108 minutes. But when he learned that the hatch is supposedly a psychological experiment, he assumed the task he had been performing was meaningless, and that's when his faith began to unravel. Slowly, Locke regressed into the man he had been before the crash: a depressed office worker with no direction. And O'Quinn's discontent mounted.

"It's interesting because the actor took a parallel journey to the character," Cuse said. "Terry's frustration was really a good thing. And his growing disillusionment with his role was also a really good thing, because that's exactly what we wanted the character to do."

As the creators dreamed up Locke, Lindelof couldn't help but think of the Charles Atlas comic book ads he used to see when he was a child: the scrawny kid on the beach who gets sand kicked in his face by a bully, then starts weightlifting and whacks the bully in the face when he returns.

"I think that's basically who John Locke is," Lindelof said. "We keep showing you stories about him making bad decisions and being abused and conned and suckered, all because he wants to be loved. Now, he's on the island, he's not preoccupied with needing to be loved anymore. He just wants to know his place in the world, which I think is something Terry is also experiencing as a human being."

O'Quinn acknowledges that his fans' concerns that Locke was being emasculated troubled him because he felt he had never before had the chance to play a "person of strength and clarity, but with a lot of dimension."

"Maybe that's because I wasn't good enough to do it before," O'Quinn said. "Or maybe nothing suited me quite as well before, but it was a character that evolved, that had a lot of doubt and angles and strength and clarity. I guess what was unique to me was that I was playing a character to whom people responded really strongly and positively."

Fans have surmised that Locke was named after 17th century philosopher John Locke, who theorized that the mind is a tabula rasa (the title of the third episode of the series) — that is, individuals are born with a clean slate, without innate mental content, and build knowledge from their experiences.

Dead right, Lindelof said. The fictional Locke had lived a life marked by pain and disappointment until he regained his ability to walk on the island, which he interprets as a sign that destiny brought him there to give him a second chance. In this way, Cuse said, the character is a springboard to explore the issue of faith versus empiricism.

"The very original idea for Locke was that we needed a character who was going to have some sort of mystical quotient going on with him," Lindelof said. "He was going to be very mysterious and quiet. This plane crash is the best thing that's ever happened to this guy."

Whether Locke holds the key to the deepest mysteries of the island, O'Quinn has no idea.

"I don't know how central he is," he said, "but … it usually means something when he's around. I think it's because of the deeper quality in him. Of this group of characters, he's the one that's actively looking for an explanation, not just a way home."

O'Quinn, who had worked with co-creator J.J. Abrams on "Alias," fit the role, Cuse said, because like Locke, he "marches to the tune of his own drummer." The actor often walks two hours barefoot on the beach from his home on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, to the set.

"While all of the other actors are gathered on Kailua or Lanikai, the populated side of the island, Terry has set up camp away from civilization," Cuse said. "In many ways, he has the qualities of a kind of powerful and intuitive loner who are in close parallel to Locke as a character. He's a very self-reliant guy who really forged a life outside his work as an actor, and I think that gives him a quiet strength."

To the endgame

THROUGH Locke, the creators set up the show's premise in the only scene in the pilot in which he speaks. In it, Locke and Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) are about to play backgammon and Locke explains the game: "Two players, two sides. One is light, one is dark." The scene ends with Locke asking, "Walt, do you want to know a secret?"

"That hook coming out of the pilot wasn't just that secret that he told Walt — that he used to be in a wheelchair and now he's mysteriously healed," Lindelof said. "That's everything the show is. Do you want to know a secret? And cutting away before you actually answer that question."

To this day, Locke and the other survivors — not to mention the viewers — do not fully understand how momentous it was when the sky turned purple and the ground shook when Locke finally refused to push the button, forcing Desmond to activate a fail-safe device.

"At one point, Locke believed he had found the answer — the meaning — and was yet again disappointed," O'Quinn said. "Although I don't think he was disappointed to be disappointed. I remember when I was very young, my appendix ruptured and I was unconscious for several days because I had gangrene and everything. And when I woke up, I was surrounded by nuns. And I thought, 'Oh, I'm in heaven and it's really gonna suck.' I think that's what Locke felt after pushing the button for about a month. 'Oh, this is my destiny. OK, it sucks.' "

Although O'Quinn is not fond of the weaker and unstable version of Locke inhabiting the island, he understands the journey the writers have outlined.

"I think what they're suggesting is that Locke hasn't dealt with his past," O'Quinn said. "That maybe it's impossible for the past to be simply wiped away. And maybe that's what they're saying about the island or the people or the story — that everyone has something to deal with."

Now that Locke has blown up the submarine, it seems all of the castaways will have plenty of time for introspection. And fans will have lots of time to ponder. It will be five weeks before viewers see Locke and his father again, but when they do, the results will be an intense set-up for the season's climax, Lindelof said.

"I think when Locke blew up the submarine he was saying, 'I'm not going to think too hard about this anymore,' " O'Quinn said. "I like it here. I don't want anybody to come here and mess it up, and I don't want anyone to leave. It's not a socially responsible choice. But, hey, if that's who he is, that's who he is. Maybe we'll find out it's all for a good reason. But I'm not particularly concerned with whether John Locke is a good guy or a bad guy. Just that he's an interesting guy and he comes from a source of strength."



[End Note: the article also contains a final section titled "Who else landed on the island with Locke? And what mysteries do they find themselves entangled in?" — but that's old hat unless you've never watched the show...]

[Island Hobo]

That goes a long way to proving that Locke is the fans main character in a show with a disappointing actual main character, Locke is the heart of LOST, finally said by someone other than me :Cheers:

[juanbong]

LOST's Terry O'Quinn to Appear in Masters of Science Fiction (http://www.buddytv.com/articles/lost/losts-terry-oquinn-to-appear-i-7202.aspx)

June 11, 2007

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/Image/oquinn-lost.jpg
LOST star Terry O'Quinn (John Locke) filmed an episode of Masters of Science Fiction, from the producers of Masters of Horror, but ABC has now announced it is trimming the limited run series from six to four episodes. O’Quinn’s LOST pedigree will no doubt make his installment “The General Zapped an Angel” a shoe-in for the airings, which will begin Saturdays in August at 10:00pm est.

The series, like its horror counter part, brings together directors with significant credits in the Science Fiction genre to adapt short stories from prolific contributors to the Science Fiction genre. Where Masters of Horror played it safe appearing on ShowTime, the producers decided to take a gamble and present Masters of Sci-Fi to a network audience.

LOST’s O’Quinn stars as a commanding officer in Iraq who discovers that something very unusual has been shot down from the Iraqi sky, and no, it isn’t an Angel. The segment is based on the classic short story of the same name by Howard Fast (which does not take place in Iraq, as you might have guessed) and is directed by “Till Human Voices Wake us” director Michael Petroni.

Ironically, O’Quinn has one of the most extensive lists of credits for any LOST star, yet has done the least extra-curricular work since joining the show as a regular cast member. With ninety-eight credits on IMDB so far, one could easily assume that O’Quinn has nothing left to prove.

Science Fiction fans are disheartened at ABC’s decision to air the series in a time slot that essentially amounts to the network slagheap. Regardless of the quality of the show, the Saturday 10:00pm airtime does not bode well for a future run of installments for the series. To be realistic, the move is indicative of the shaky relationship between networks and Science Fiction. LOST snuck into the schedule by hiding its fantasy/science fiction roots, but since then most science fiction/fantasy endeavors have failed.

- Jon Lachonis, BuddyTV Senior Writer

[Brian]

Thanks juan! Sounds great. :)

[missedflight815]

Just read this online. Sounds like there are some folks Locke doesn't play well with (kind of like art imitating life).

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=301902

[sgtdraino]

This actually is a really great interview, here it is in its entirety. Some insights on why Locke threw the knife at Naomi, and where the character will go this season. MILDLY SPOILERISH, so read at your own risk:

John Locke Gets Religion on 'Lost'
The Associated Press

He went from island guru to a frustrated button pusher. Now Terry O'Quinn (http://tv.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=228506), who plays the enigmatic John Locke on "Lost (http://tv.msn.com/tv/series/lost_1)," says get ready for his character to really push the envelope.
The island is now split, with some people following Jack (Matthew Fox (http://tv.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=354520)), hoping that a new group will rescue them. Others are sticking with Locke, who thinks the new arrivals are a danger to them all. O'Quinn sat down with The Associated Press to discuss his character, the show's backstage dynamics and his quibbles with the writers.

AP: What can we expect from Locke now?

O'Quinn: Trying to find out who these people are, why they're there, what they want, because he knows it's not to rescue them and Ben has said that he has someone on their boat and he's going to try to find out who that is and what exactly is going on. He believes now that his purpose is to protect this place. That it has a soul, that it's kind of a being and he's its agent.

How does that affect the evolution of the character?

The way I like to see it now is he's got religion. When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and you can be dangerous. You can be oppressive. You can be a tyrant. So, we'll see.

Has Locke gone insane?

The question is whether he's gone over the edge or where is the edge or how far is he going to go, whether he's being misled and where he's being led and whether he's going to have the good sense to stop when he gets to the right place. I don't know.

You've said you found Locke's button-pushing phase in the hatch frustrating. What's it like playing the character now?

I like the present situation somewhat more. Although in the next few episodes people are about to see he sort of stalls again. But he has this — it seems to be his pattern. He finds something, it activates him, he goes until he hits a roadblock and he stalls and he waits for something to happen, he gets frustrated, he gets angry and then something happens and he runs along for a while. They've always kept it interesting — well, sometimes not, sometimes frustrating — but that's what happens with the character.

You've had other disagreements with the writers.

At the end of Season 3 Locke throws a knife into Naomi's back and I said, 'This really hurts me, It's so not typical and it's so out of character and it seemed gratuitous.' I made the biggest stink I ever made with (executive producers) Damon Lindelhof and Carlton Cuse and they said, 'Look, Locke believes he was doing the right thing. His life was saved, he's been told, he's been instructed. He believes that this is the most dangerous person in the world right now and he does what he does. Do it.' I said, 'Well, you know, if I stab her in the back couldn't I at least shoot Jack in the knee or something?'

What's it like working with such a large cast?

One of the nice things about this cast, this size of cast, you get a new episode and you go, 'Oh great, now I get to work this little arc with Michael Emerson (http://tv.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=226247). We have a lot together. Or with Josh Holloway (http://tv.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=373291) or Evangeline Lilly (http://tv.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=1209854) and it's almost always a pleasure to find out who you're working with. Almost.

Are there some you aren't pleased to work with?

There've been some rough times but it's very familial in that way. It's like the holidays when you go, 'Oh God, uncle Bob's going to get drunk and abuse my cousin. But we'll get through it.'

It's been announced 'Lost' will end in 2010. How does an end date change things?

As an actor and as a fan, it makes things more meaty ... (the producers) know where they're going and they know how much time they have to answer the questions so it can play like a piece of music. And I think that's going to be more gratifying for everybody.

[nicholas urfe]

You've had other disagreements with the writers.

At the end of Season 3 Locke throws a knife into Naomi's back and I said, 'This really hurts me, It's so not typical and it's so out of character and it seemed gratuitous.' I made the biggest stink I ever made with (executive producers) Damon Lindelhof and Carlton Cuse and they said, 'Look, Locke believes he was doing the right thing. His life was saved, he's been told, he's been instructed. He believes that this is the most dangerous person in the world right now and he does what he does. Do it.' I said, 'Well, you know, if I stab her in the back couldn't I at least shoot Jack in the knee or something?'



Well they'd better have a good reason for this, glad Terry O'quinn felt the same way about it as i did .

[Brian]

Lost:«I only have to keep track of John Locke...» (http://www.serienjunkies.de/news/losti-only-18616.html)

During the Festival Großes Fernsehen, actor Terry O'Quinn came to Cologne in order to promote the German premiere of „Lost“'s fourth season on new premium cabler FOX Channel. Christian Junklewitz and Dominik Ahrens spoke with him for Serienjunkies. Right at the start of the interview, a very calm and kind O'Quinn cleared the rumour (spread, e.g., on wikipedia) that he has ever been a bodyguard: „If I was gonna start some kind of rumor, it would be one that I wouldn't have to back up...“

How do you keep up with everything that is going on on «Lost»? There are so many places on the island, so many time frames. How do you cope?
I only have to keep track of John Locke. I only have to know what he knows. In fact, the more difficult challenge is not paying attention to the things I am not supposed to know. John Locke doesn't have to keep track of everything, because he only knows what he knows.

But you have to keep track where on the time line all these things are supposed to happen to John Locke?
Yes, but in Locke's case, so far, he has only had the past and the present. As far as I know. Nobody has told me anything else. Both of those things are very clear to me and they are very clear to him. So, it's really not a challenge to me. It's more complicated for the fans of „Lost“.

How far in advance do you know what is going to happen to John? And I mean this more in terms of character development rather than plot development.
I don't know far at all. We are about to start shooting season five in the States, and I don't know how that begins. At the beginning of season four, we may have gotten the script two weeks before we began to shoot. By the end of the season, we got the script the day before we started to shoot. So, we don't know far in advance. The writers are very secretive, even with us. I would prefer they didn't tell me things I don't need to know because these are viewers' secrets I have to protect. I don't want them. It's not necessary.

So, the writers don't even tell you: We want to take John in this or that direction? You only get your screenplay, and that's it?
That's pretty much it. What I learned is this: Don't ask. Because they can't tell you. If I had a cast of twenty-some people I wouldn't tell any of them anything, ANYTHING.

There is a rumor that your colleague Matthew Fox is the only cast member who knows what the solution of the mystery in „Lost will be? Is that true?“
I have no idea. I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks he does. If he came and told me „I know what's gonna happen“, I would say „Ok, what?“, and then he would say „Well, I can't tell you“, and I'd say „Well, I don't believe you.“

(laughter)

[ZIA]

Very cool! Thanks Brian. :)

[sgtdraino]

Here's a blast from the past (2005) that I stumbled over looking at some old posts on another forum:

Actor's Equity 3-21-2005

Terry O'Quinn of 'Lost' and, for the moment, Reisterstown, holds a moving sale. For a Westminster family, it's packed with meaning.

Bryan Ayres Jr. is a huge fan of the ABC-TV show Lost.

In fact, he's such a huge fan that every Wednesday night last fall, Grandma would baby-sit for Bryan's 1-year-old daughter, Aliza. "Wednesday was date night," said Helen Ayres, 45, of Westminster. "I'd come over and take Aliza so that Bryan and Sharon could be together and watch the show."

Lost is about survivors of a plane crash on an isolated island. The 48 people who walk away from the wreckage must rely on ancient instincts and skills to stay alive. Bryan Ayres' favorite character is Locke (Terry O'Quinn), a formerly paralyzed man who, miraculously, finds himself fully recovered once the plane goes down, becoming a kind of uber-survivor with the keenest reflexes and jungle techniques in the group.

Helen Ayres can't help hoping that a version of the miracle on the show will take place in real life. For the past three months, her 26-year-old son has been in a coma, the result of a Dec. 17 car accident.

It was that hope that has brought the Ayres family on Saturday to the auction of nearly all the belongings in O'Quinn's 10,000-square-foot home in northern Reisterstown. Helen Ayres isn't entirely sure what she's looking for, but she'll know it when she sees it - some object so special that it will jolt her son back to wakefulness.

"Bryan would want me to be here for him," she says. "I keep imagining him looking around in awe."


We're all planets spinning in our own orbits, our stories intersecting only incidentally with those of other people.

On Saturday, at the O'Quinn place, there were more than 500 planets bumping and spinning and jostling on the lawn outside O'Quinn's home. That's the number of visitors who registered to bid at the estate sale run by Caplan's Auction Co.

The visitors included David Paschane, 36, of Silver Spring. He and his wife, Amy, 34, are expecting their first child, a boy, in three months.

For the future Elliott Conrad Paschane, David Paschane plunked down $22 for three tubs full of sports equipment - helmets, a basketball, ski boots, tennis rackets, lacrosse sticks, even a paintball set. Whatever sport Elliott Conrad might want to play, oh, 20 years from now, David Paschane figures he's got it covered.

And then there's Terry O'Quinn's wife, Lori, who has spent the morning watching strangers peer into her refrigerator and critically hold up her juice glasses to the light.

"It feels weird," she says. "But people have been very nice."

The right decision

She knows that moving is the right decision for her family. Lost looks to be around for a while, and the show is shot in Hawaii - quite a commute from Reisterstown. Besides, both the O'Quinn sons, Oliver, 23, and Hunter, 21, live in Los Angeles, where they are studying acting.

"We're done with the big house," she says. "It's time to be gypsies for a while. It's about Terry and me now. I keep telling the boys, 'I'm done being a mama.'"

Still, it's hard to leave the home that she and Terry built on property that formerly was a riding school run by Lori O'Quinn's parents. It's hard to leave the place where she met Terry when he was a young actor appearing in a Center Stage production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure in the late 1970s.

He needed riding lessons for Heaven's Gate, a Western movie he was to play a role in, and she provided them. When the film ran into production delays, though, Lori's parents began to question whether the man who'd been mucking out stalls in exchange for room and board was a legitimate actor. They threw him off their property, and the 21-year-old Lori tossed her saddles into the trunk of her car and followed him.

The couple's first date was at the cast party for Measure for Measure. They married in 1979. (Heaven's Gate premiered in 1980.)

Eight years ago, they built their dream home on the family farm, a Gothic-style manse with a stone turret and stained glass windows. Terry built many of the furnishings, including the doors and several tables.

Lori O'Quinn knows there's no turning back; the house itself already has been sold. "What's left is just stuff," she says.

Though she has reserved two rooms full of cherished possessions that were not for sale (her saddles, family photos, gifts from friends), nearly everything else is on the auction block: an antique rocking horse and a dollhouse; scripts of the pilot episode of Lost signed by every member of the cast; a 1999 Ford pickup (which drew the day's highest price at just over $10,000, according to auction house owner John Caplan); the gazebo on the front lawn.

Lori O'Quinn tears up, then apologizes. "You caught me in an emotional moment, there. What the heck. I'm moving onto another stage of my life."

Something for Bryan

The Ayres family can't move on. Not yet.

Bryan Sr. and Helen are daily thankful for their two younger children: Bethaney, who has pale blond hair and a 16-year-old's perfect figure, and open-faced Joshuha, who, at 14, still responds without embarrassment to his mother's teasing. Not to mention Helen Ayres' five sisters, all of whom live in Maryland. "If it weren't for my sisters," she says, "I'd never make it through this."

And she's grateful, of course, for baby Aliza, who visits her father once a week in the hospital, and who the Ayreses say will occasionally walk up to a framed photo of her dad and kiss it.

At the auction, Helen Ayres buys some wicker baskets and two tubs full of Christmas ornaments. Bethaney invests in a really nice curtain rod set, with etched glass finials.

Bryan Ayres Sr. spies something he thinks his son might like - a small wooden desk and chair made by Terry O'Quinn and painted a light green.

With his wife's approval, he starts to bid. He almost drops out several times, but when the price climbs to $400, he looks over at Helen, who resignedly nods OK. "$410?" the auctioneer tempts.

The woman competing for the desk holds up her yellow bidding slip. Bryan Ayres can go no further.

"Thank God," Helen Ayers says. "We can't afford that, not on our salaries. Not now." She drives a school bus, and her husband paints and hangs wallpaper.

And it's not as though the family will go away empty-handed. The Ayreses and the O'Quinns have a mutual friend, who obtained a picture of the Lost cast and arranged for Terry O'Quinn - who was away on location Saturday - to sign it.

"To Bryan," Terry O'Quinn writes. "Get well soon. I mean it. Really soon." He has promised to phone Bryan once he wakes up.

And recently, there have been signs that the young man has been trying to do just that. Now, when Helen talks to her son and asks him if he understands her, Bryan Jr. will raise his index finger. "I know he's there," she says. "I know it."

Meanwhile, she continues to search for "something to stimulate him." It's a mother's equivalent of a signal flare, a message to her child marooned on a deserted island to hold on, because help is on the way.

And now, for a heeping help of sadness on top:


Family Law

Grandparental visitation


BOTTOM LINE: Circuit court erred in denying mother’s motion to modify grandparental visitation order where there was no showing of exceptional circumstances to rebut presumption that modification was not in the child’s best interests.


CASE: Barrett v. Ayres, No. 1222, September Term, 2008 (filed June 3, 2009) (Judges Eyler, D., Woodward & KENNEY).


FACTS: Sharon Barrett was the mother of 5-year-old Aliza Ayres. Bryan Ayres, Sr. and Helen Ayres (the Ayreses), were Aliza’s paternal grandparents and the parents of Aliza’s father, Bryan Ayres, Jr. Sharon and Bryan were never married.

Aliza’s father was seriously injured in an automobile accident in December 2004. Because he remained in a coma since the accident, he never had an interactive relationship with Aliza.

At first, Sharon provided the Ayreses with regular access to Aliza, and allowed them to take her to the hospital to see her father. As the parties struggled to deal with the situation, however, their relationship became strained and, in March 2005, Sharon began denying the Ayreses access to Aliza.

The Ayreses filed for court-ordered visitation in circuit court in May 2005. They sought visitation with Aliza at least one evening during the week and twice each weekend. Sharon would only agree to visitation twice a month.

A hearing was held before a Master in November 2005. In his Recommendation and Report, the Master first found that Sharon was a fit and proper parent and, therefore, that she was entitled to the presumption that she was acting in Aliza’s best interest regarding visitation. Thus, the Master recommended a visitation order consistent with Sharon’s determination of what the visitation should be.

In January 2006, the court accepted the decision of the Master as a full and final resolution of the matter. In April 2006, upon consideration of the Master’s Report and Recommendation, the court granted the Ayreses visitation with Aliza on one Saturday and one Wednesday each month.

In April 2007, Sharon filed a motion to modify, alleging that circumstances had changed since the entry of the court’s last order in that the acrimony between the parties had increased because the Ayreses were dissatisfied with their level of visitation. Sharon claimed that the Ayreses pressured her for additional visits and that because she was unwilling to expand the visits, tensions arose. Sharon claimed that the continuous arguments created a tense and stressful environment which was not beneficial for Aliza, that Aliza gained no benefit from the visits, and that Aliza’s best interests would be served by ending visitation with the Ayreses.

In September 2007, a hearing was held before a Master, who recommended that Sharon’s motion be granted. The Ayreses took exception to the Master’s recommendation. In June 2008, the circuit court denied Sharon’s motion, finding no material changes in the parties’ circumstances to justify modification of the visitation order.

Sharon appealed to the Court of Special Appeals, which reversed.