‘Lost’ cast discuss new season and Emmy disappointment

The surviving cast of the award winning serial, Lost had a reunion of sorts at Ola Restaurant at Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu. The occasion was the release of the DVD titled “Lost: The Complete Second Season – The Extended Experience”, priced at $60 that will be available in stores by September 5. The cast used the occasion to talk about the third season of the serial among other things.Executive producer Bryan Burk talked about the underground bunker, which was the setting for most of the second season and said that its five minutes of fame was over. “The hatch has definitely had its moment. Lets just say it was one big explosion”, he said. The other cast members who attended the party were Evangeline Lilly, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Terry O’Quinn, Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjim Kim.

The resort is located at around a 20-minute drive from where much of the serial is being filmed. One thing that was prominently discussed was the Emmy snub. However Lilly, who will present the Emmys on August 27, was not too bothered about the lack of nominations. “My first reaction to it was, `Good.’ I don’t want us to become that show that becomes so righteous, so above everything else, that we’re untouchable,” she observed.
“When we started, our big question was, `Will anybody even watch this show?’ And then when people started watching, we were thrilled. And then when we got recognized critically, we were beside ourselves. So, when we didn’t get nominated, all we had to do was remember where we came from,” she said.

Even writer and executive producer Carlton Cuse shrugged off the Emmy problem and said that right now they needed to focus on the third season. “Were we disappointed that we didn’t get a nomination for the show? Yes.” he said. “But the show has been so blessed: the attention, the success. We’re not going to focus too long on what we don’t have.”

In the first season Lost featured the original plane-crash survivors and their life on the deserted island. The second season was all about people who were in the tail end of the plane and assumed dead. This year its an entirely different story. Lost will beam on ABC on October 4.