Kristin over at eonline.com had the chance to interview Damon and of course they spoke about Charlie’s death. I’m angry (very angry) at him, but what he has to say is interesting. I especially like the part where Kristin asks “Are you a bastard for killing Charlie” and he says “True”. Damn right it’s true! Ahem, anyway, read the interview below:

Damon, first, I want you to know that last week, I hated me. I hated people who do what I do, because it honestly broke my heart that the huge “flash forward” twist of the finale was spoiled on a Website. I know you were trying extremely hard to protect that.
It was unfortunate. I think there will always be people who want to turn to the last page of the book, but I feel that those people are almost universally disappointed with what they read there, because if it’s cool, they don’t understand the context, and if it sucks, they feel like they’ve saved themselves time. But no one skips to the end of life. You have to live it, and it’s just disappointing to me that people don’t respect the integrity of the show enough to let it unfold naturally. There is a fine line between intriguing the audience with what’s to come and giving them the whole shebang. And I feel the line was crossed with the finale this year, and it’s really disappointing. Which is why, if we’re going to talk about these things, I would at least like to come to you, because I know you’ll handle it responsibly and not cross that line.

How are you dealing with the Spoilergate aftermath?
Well, with regard to season four, Carlton and I are going into complete and utter radio silence. I know a lot of people are going to be frustrated, but I think if things had gone a little differently in terms of the finale getting spoiled, we might have been a little more open to talking about it. But now we’re all bitter. [Laughs.] No, honestly, the reason for the silence is we don’t want to tell the audience what to think about where the show is going to be next year. The way the finale concluded and what happens next is open to interpretation. I think it had a real imaginative quality to it that hopefully engaged the audience’s imagination the way the show did when they first saw the pilot.

Does that mean you’re not going to answer all my probing questions about the fate of our Losties now?
You can ask, but I can’t guarantee anything.

Fair enough. How about a harmless little game of False, True or Hell No, I Won’t Tell You?
Let’s do it…

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A heartbroken Kristin over at eonline.com has a fantastic interview with Dominic Monaghan (it’s fantastic because she always asks the right questions and she’s such a huge fan, which shows) about, again, him leaving the show, the fans, his friendships with the cast and about his future. Read the great and sad interview below:

Say it isn’t so. Charlie is definitely dead. For real?
For real, yeah.

There’s no chance he’s alive, coming back next season?
Well, it would be news to me if that were the case. My feeling had always been with a character like Charlie—who I always hoped, at least, was a strong, sympathetic character—that once he went, he went. You know, I don’t want to do that thing to the audience of “I didn’t really leave.”

Did you have a sense it was coming, that you would be written off?
Yeah. I definitely did. If you head down that road of consistently being told that you’re going to die, I just thought, well, what’s going to be the payoff for the writers here? And I would speak with my castmates, and I would say, “You know I must be, I must be leaving.” It makes sense in the writers’ room to write Charlie dying, as opposed to the more boring, less dynamic way of saying he cheated death, or he worked out a way to do it, or he’s not going to die for another couple of seasons.

They brought back Ian Somerhalder and Maggie Grace for flashbacks. Would you come back if they were to write something in like that?
I don’t know. I mean I might if it was kind of an Obi-Wan thing. [Laughs.]

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Entertainment Weekly have already interviewed exec producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse about Charlie’s death. They’re brilliant writers, but they’re bastards for killing off Charlie. He did not have to die! Read the interview below:

Entertainment Weekly: Why kill Charlie?

CARLTON CUSE: We didn’t do it because we didn’t like Dominic or we don’t think he’s a terrific actor, which he is. The story of Desmond’s prognostication was one of the big parts of this season, like, ”If you push the button in the hatch, is that going to lead the hatch blowing up or is just a mindf—?” Charlie’s story had to lead to a conclusion, and we felt like Charlie’s heroic death would be a culminating event that would give the season a sense of closure. In a way Charlie is the everyman hero on the show, and he gets to do one of the most heroic things ever on Lost: He gives his life so that they have a chance to radio for help. That is a big game-changer on the show. And it felt like it required a character’s death to earn the seismic shift that’s going to occur.
DAMON LINDELOF: As we were talking about Charlie in the middle of season 2, we began to feel that now that we’ve had this addict throw the [heroin-filled] Virgin Mary statues into the ocean, where do we go with him next? We didn’t want to do a Sipowicz, where it’s like, ”All right, now he’s going to find more heroin and he’ll get hooked on that,” or ”Now he’ll start drinking.” It was like, ”What are we going to do with Charlie? What is his next hurdle? What is there to play?” And we knew that the upshot of Desmond turning the failsafe key was that he was going to get this precognitive ability, but we wanted to limit it. And it was like, ”If Desmond can see the future, we want to be very specific about it, so it’s not that he sees all futures. What if it’s very specific, and that he just keeps seeing Charlie die?” That gave Desmond an emotional arc in terms of, ”Do I tell him? When I should tell him? What are the effects of me telling him?” And it gave Charlie an awesome arc in believing that he’s essentially living on borrowed time. So to answer the question, ”Why kill Charlie?” the reality is, once Desmond said to him, ”You’re going to die,” it’s the only fair thing to do. If you don’t kill him, then it’s a copout, by the very law of prognostication. Especially since he’s almost died so many times this season. I think the audience and the character and even Dom as an actor would feel ripped off if we did not fulfill the promise of Desmond’s premonition.

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Everyone wants to hear what Dominic Monaghan has to say about his heartbreaking departure from the show, including Entertainment Weekly. Read their great Q&A with Dom below.

Entertainment Weekly: How long have you known about Charlie’s death, and what was your reaction to that plot twist?

Dominic Monaghan: By the time they got around to actually telling me — which was four months after I knew about the storyline we were exploring — it was probably one of relief more than anything else. I just wanted to know what was going to happen, and set up on an open line of communication. So my initial feeling was one of relief. And then there was a lot of excitement along with that, and then there’s a lot of sadness. I mean, you’re leaving things that you love. But my overriding feeling was one of relief.

What was it like to film those final scenes?
I turned up on Friday [May 4], thinking it was going to be my last day at work, and it just didn’t work out. The stunts were not quite there yet, in terms of how I was going to drown, so we wrapped at 11 o’clock, and I ended up having a mini-wrap party, just for the hell of it, with the crew. I stayed at the studio ’til about 4 in the morning playing dice and I won about $700, which was fun. I’m sure that left a good taste in their mouths. [Laughs] And then I got up the next day and went surfing. I came into work midday and we filmed. I was in neck-deep water from about 1 in the afternoon ’til about 7:30 at night. No lunch. No breaks. This water was fraught with technical difficulties, but once the water was deep enough that I could submerge myself, we did the scene. I didn’t really think too much about it being the end; I just wanted to get it done because I had to leave the next day. I only took a breath once I finished and went home and continued to pack. I was pretty exhausted.

So you didn’t give in to the emotion of the moment?
I did the day before. Jack Bender, one of the producers, presented me with a paddle that had been made by the crew and the cast, and said a little speech about working with me on the show. He said some beautiful things and gave me the microphone, and I had a really hard time trying to get out exactly what I wanted to say without my voice faltering. That was probably the most emotional thing. And then I had to keep my head down and get on with business, you know?

What was the toughest part of shooting the drowning sequence?
The cold. If you’re in water for a couple hours, your body temperature starts to sink down — especially when you’re completely submerged in water — and I would spend long periods of time in the water. My teeth were chattering and my voice was faltering in places.

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TV Guide.com has a great Q&A with Dominic Monaghan, who did a brilliant job of playing Charlie Pace on Lost for 3 years. Dominic talks about leaving the show, a little bit about Evangeline Lilly, and about what’s next for him.

TVGuide.com: First things first: Charlie’s really dead?

Dominic Monaghan: Oh, yeah.

TVGuide.com: I remember talking to executive producer J.J. Abrams early in the first season, and he said that as long as you still came out of your trailer, you’d always have a job on Lost. So, were you not coming out of your trailer anymore?

Monaghan: [Laughs] I still have that TV Guide. I’m gonna frame it for him and say, “Are you gonna sue them or shall I?” But seriously, I think that’s [indicative] of where the show is right now. J.J.’s one of the creators of the show, but in terms of making the decisions these days, he isn’t as connected as he once was.

TVGuide.com: You told me in February that you had been talking with Damon for a while about your leaving. How long have you actually known that Charlie would die?

Monaghan: Well, we could go way back to Season 1. I’ve always said to Damon, “Look, if I’m gonna leave the show, I’m totally cool with it, as long as I leave on an up-trajectory.” But we started talking in mid-October of last year, just the idea that Desmond was able to predict that Charlie may be dying at some point in the future. But Damon said, “At this point, we don’t know where that story line’s going to go.” I knew that I was definitely leaving in late February.

TVGuide.com: Why would you want to leave a hit series?

Monaghan: Obviously, there are huge positives to being involved in a show like Lost. We film in Hawaii, and the lifestyle there is a really fantastic thing. But, to be honest, as an actor I’ve been kind of frustrated for a while. I’ve wanted to do a little bit more. The difference between how much the audience got to see Charlie in Season 1 as opposed to how much they got to see Charlie in Seasons 2 and 3 was significant. It’s been kind of frustrating for me for a while. So I think it’s time for me to move on, you know.

TVGuide.com: Still, you’ve been with the show since day one. It must’ve been a little emotional when you finally got the “We’re definitely killing you off” call.

Monaghan: More than anything else, I was just relieved. It’s been so long for me to be sitting with the potential of the decision. You know, I got to a point where I just wanted to know. I’ve been trying to plan the rest of my career, and there’s a whole bunch of opportunities that have been up in the air because I couldn’t commit to them because of Lost. It was a little bittersweet to be leaving behind surfing and palm trees and beaches, but I think I probably squeezed the last amount of enjoyment I could’ve got out of that for a while. More than anything else, I have to [go] where the best work is going to be for me. And some of the best work for me [on Lost] was going to be done in my leaving the show.

TVGuide.com: The episode before the finale, “Greatest Hits,” was like a eulogy for Charlie.

Monaghan: I think that was to allow the audience to sit with it long enough to prepare themselves for what was going to happen [in the finale]. I think I benefited from the fact that the producers knew it was going to be a big deal with me leaving, so they wanted to make it as significant as possible.

TVGuide.com: Charlie started out as a self-involved, washed-up rock-star junkie. But by the end, he’d evolved into someone who was willing to sacrifice himself to save everyone else. How involved were you in that transformation?

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Buddy TV have written an interesting article on the season 3 finale:

So Lost changed the game tonight, or did it? What everybody wants to know is, was this a one time thing? Or will this be how things go from here on out? After all, last year they showed us a couple of guys in an arctic listening post discovering the location of the island, and we haven’t seen hide nor hair of them since. Don’t know what I’m even referring to? Skip on through for a quick update, or if you prefer to be surprised… don’t. Spoilers ahead.

So here is how it went. In the flash back sequences tonight; we followed Jack through a very dark time. Frantically trying to reach somebody while his life falls apart. He nearly commits suicide, he steals drugs from the hospital and gets caught, attends the funeral of someone he neither likes nor is related to (!), all the while making call after call to a mysterious someone.

In the end, we found out that this someone was Kate. The flashback was not a flashback at all. It was a flash forward. Moreover, in the end, it seems Kate doesn’t want much to do with Jack, who is pleading her to go back to the island. A prospect she does not find the least bit appealing.

So, what does this mean for the future of Lost? First, it tells us that the story does not end with them getting off the island. At some point it is possible these flashbacks will collide with the central flow of the series and we will see a season that takes place off the island. Perhaps the series ends with whoever left returning to the island to face some end game that they shied away from.

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*Spoiler Alert* If you haven’t seen the season 3 finale, read at your own risk.

The third season of Lost has now finished — and what a way to end it! The season 3 finale was fantastic, brilliant, phenomenal and also the saddest episode yet.

Again, do not read any further if you have not yet seen the finale.

I’m absolutely devastated that Charlie is dead. I had tears in my eyes the whole time, hoping that Desmond would somehow get him out of there and they’d both be okay. It’s very unlike me to care that much about a fictional TV character (ha!), but Charlie was in my top 3! I never ever wanted him to leave, and to be honest, I didn’t think it would happen, because even though he isn’t a key character, he has so much to offer. He was a much loved character and I didn’t think the writers would be, ahem, how can I put this nicely, silly (yeah, that’ll work) enough to let him go. Out of all the characters, why HIM?! I’m actually kind of angry at the writers. Dominic is an amazing actor and he deserves to be part of Lost ’til the end. What a shame. Dom, you’ll be missed! Please come back in loads of flashbacks, or even as a ghost, that would be fine.

As for the whole flash-forward thing — FANTASTIC! I actually guessed it very early on in the episode, and in the very last scene, when a woman appears, I knew it would be Evi (Kate). I was so amazed and so…WHOAH! Brilliant writing. So Kate and Jack made a “mistake”, and Jack wants to go back to the island. I think maybe Kate and Jack got off the island, but left some people behind, and Jack wants to go back for them. Guess we will have to wait and see.

February is way, way too far away. I.Can’t.Wait.That.Long.Damn.It. It’s torture. I guess I could…have a baby in the meantime. Yes, it’s that long a wait!

To the writers and the cast: Thanks for a brilliant season! See you in 2008.
P.S. Kill Locke! And bring Charlie back….please.

Coty Inc welcomed Josh Holloway to London today as the new face of the Davidoff Cool Water fragrance (except North America), following the agreement announcement in February.

“I love Cool Water because it is simple, powerful and timeless. To me, the Cool water man is not someone who is trying to be cool, he is someone who is comfortable with his masculinity” said Josh Holloway, star of the popular Lost TV series.

The new advertising campaign (television & press) will break across Europe and the UK at the beginning of July 2007.

Source: LondonNet.co.uk

Dominic Monaghan is proud his likeness has been used to make a host of action figures.

The actor has been turned into a toy on four occasions, three times for his role as Merry the hobbit in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ films and now again as rocker Charlie in cult plane crash show ‘Lost‘, and admits the figures fill him with a child-like sense of excitement.

Dominic said: “I had three done for the Lord of the Rings movies so the ‘Lost’ one is my fourth, which is pretty crazy! When I was growing up, ‘Star Wars’ figures were a pretty big deal for me, so if it gets kids excited in the same way as I was about ‘Star Wars’ then that’s really cool.”

The British actor - who is rumored to be engaged to his ‘Lost’ co-star Evangeline Lilly - has also revealed he is nothing like his character Charlie.

He explained: “There is a frustrated rock star in me, but Charlie is probably the most unlike me of any part I’ve ever played. Even Merry the hobbit was me when I was 11-years-old.”

Source: Female First

“I took Hologram to a secluded part of the island, and I was kinda sad as I let him go.” - Dominic Monaghan bid a fond farewell to his beloved chameleon Hologram after the pet died in Hawaii.