September 2nd, 2010 | 
Author: By Morgan Jeffery
It’s been more than three months now since the Lost gang vanished from our screens, but we’re not quite ready to move on just yet. The final season, out on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on September 13, will feature a brand new 12-minute epilogue to the series, ‘The New Man In Charge’. We caught up with actor Michael Emerson – the sinister Ben Linus – to discuss the finale, the DVD scene and his plans for the future.
Are you satisfied with Ben’s overall character arc throughout the course of the series?
“Yes, I loved the entire arc and was especially delighted with Ben’s end in the finale. It was finer and more satisfying than anything I could have imagined. I’m completely satisfied with Ben’s adventure. Of course, there are always the ‘paths not followed’, which are tantalising. It would have been interesting to explore the relationship between Ben and [childhood friend] Annie.”
What were some of your favourite scenes from the final season?
“I especially liked shooting the scenes where I was ‘teacher’ Ben, because it gave me a chance to play a new character in a different key.”
Were you pleased to be able to answer some more of the fan’s questions with ‘The New Man In Charge’?
“Yes, I think the chapter is a nice addition to the Lost narrative. It’s nice to have some of the more particular or practical questions answered since the finale took a more spiritual tone.”
What were your thoughts on Lost when you joined the show in the second season?
“I thought of it as a work assignment, one of many guest spots I’ve done on shows over the years. I’m glad I had no idea what it would turn into or I would have been very nervous.”
Posted in By Liana Maeby
I watched the first five seasons of LOST in a single month, committing whole weekends to Thai delivery and the mysteries of Flight 815. During those four weeks I became completely entrenched in the world of polar bears and smoke monsters, living vicariously through Kate and suddenly feeling closer to Hurley than to my best friend. And then closer to Vincent than to my boyfriend.
One weird effect of this Island-saturation was that I had LOST-related dreams every single night. Some of them were nightmares: me, trapped in a well while some faceless Other taunted from outside. Some involved half-lucid conversations about, like, what it all means, man. (Mostly it meant an excuse to order more Pad Thai.) And, of course, some of the dreams were simply about making out on that weird 70s-style couch inside the hatch.
Thing is? After every one of these make-out dreams I woke up shocked to recall who’d been on that sofa with me. Not Sawyer rolling over and calling me some adorably rude nickname. Not Jack leaning in for a kiss after stitching up a head wound (hey, these things got intense), but Ben Linus, chief Other, in all his sweater vest, round-glasses glory.
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This is an old interview, but it is one the admin has not seen and the interview shows what a nice person Michael Emerson is. He even thanked the writers for writing a nice script for him. How awesome can this man be?
Michael Emerson talks about Ben Linus’ regrets regarding John Locke. He also teases what will happen to Ben’s manipulative skills and comments on alternate Ben.
Michael Emerson, from Lost, at the Entertainment Weekly & Women in Film Pre-Emmy Party 2010.
Thank you, terryoquinnfan for the YouTube post.
Michael Emerson didn’t win, but he is shown in this video:
Michael Emerson, who played Ben on Lost and is up for best actor in a drama, arrived with wife Carrie Preston, who plays Arlene on True Blood.
She said it was a first for them to be at the Emmys together. “It pits us against each other,” he teased. “We have vampires, but he can move islands,” she joked.
Does he miss Lost? He looked a little wistful. “I don’t miss being away from home but the nostalgia is starting to set in,” he said, particularly at this time of year when the cast would have headed to Hawaii for shooting. Now he’s “hanging around house being chauffer and personal assistant to my very busy wife.”
Any truth to the rumors he wants a role on True Blood? “I have some plastic Halloween fangs and I go in her trailer and peek my head out looking for (creator) Alan Ball,” he joked. “He puts on my pale make up,” Preston added.
Source: USA TODAY
Michael Emerson and Carrie Preston
Michael Emerson, Daniel Dae Kim, Henry Ian Cusik
Additional and larger photos are here.
