Rather than feeling devastated when a fire gutted her Hawaii home recently, Lost star Evangeline Lilly is philosophical about the incident.

Evangeline, 27, says she felt a ‘giddy’ sense of freedom when she lost most of her possessions in the December house fire on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where she lives while filming the popular Sky One series.

“I like the feeling of being free and having no possessions. I think I’m a gypsy at heart,” she told Sky magazine.

“After the fire, I got this giddy feeling, like, ‘You’re telling me I only have my wallet, the clothes on my back, my car?’ Cool!’

“I furnished my house with Salvation Army furniture, so I didn’t have anything of value. The most valuable things I had were my paintings and writing - but they’re still just things.”

Source: The Sun

Evangeline Lilly is promising a big surprise in Wednesday’s season finale of “Lost.”

Lilly tells “Live With Regis and Kelly” that the finale will feature “the biggest reveal we’ve ever given ever in the history of `Lost.’” She says it “tells you where the next three seasons is going to take us.”

Lilly also revealed something about Kate that she hopes no one’s noticed before. She says Kate’s been wearing the same pair of underwear since the first episode of the series.

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Facial palsy threatened Yunjin Kim’s career as an actress but she overcame it to win her starring role on the hit U.S. TV show Lost, the actress writes in a soon-to-be-released memoir, according to a news report Monday.

Kim’s book, tentatively titled “Hollywood Story,” details the hardship she underwent after deciding to start anew as an unknown actress in Hollywood after giving up all the privileges she could have enjoyed in South Korea as a top actress, Yonhap news agency reported.

Kim wrote the Korean-language book by herself for about a year and its release is set for June 4, Yonhap said.

Kim, a South Korean who went to high school and college in the U.S., left her mark on South Korean cinema with “Swiri,” a 1998 movie considered the first South Korean blockbuster, where she played a North Korean spy who falls in love with a South Korean intelligence agent.

She was also named the best actress in South Korea’s Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2002 for her role in another drama, “Deep Loves.”

Then she disappeared from South Korean cinema when she decided to go to the U.S., thinking, “It would be impossible unless I do it now,” according to Yonhap.

Life in the U.S. was not easy. In addition to a series of audition failures, she also had to battle facial palsy that could have ended her career as an actress, the report said. Still, she overcame the disease and passed the audition for “Lost,” the report said.

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Whenever a new Lost script arrives at Josh Holloway’s home , his wife (Yessica Kumala) grabs it, runs into the bathroom and locks the door.

“She’s got to know what’s happening,” Holloway says. “We’re both fans. The show still wows us.”

Like other members of the cast, Holloway doesn’t know how the serial will end. At one point, he says, he thought it was like “The Stand,” Stephen King’s novel about survival and the near-end of civilization.

Then, the story shifted and “now I don’t have any clues. I just know if it ends and it’s all in somebody’s head or it’s a dream, I’m going to be really mad.”

Cast as Sawyer, the tougher-than-nails survivor of a plane crash held prisoner by a group known as “The Others,” Holloway has been able to play a number of emotions, explore countless situations. Sawyer, he says, is “someone we all have inside us just dying to get out. It’s nice to go to work and air out the anger…then I’m much nicer at home.”

In person, Holloway is about as mellow as an actor gets. Soft-spoken, friendly and self-effacing, he hardly seems like the type who spent 16 years as a leading male model. Yet high fashion was an important part of his life. He did it, he says, because growing up in Georgia gave him three career options — “mechanic, contractor or chicken farmer.”

“I worked construction, so I probably was going to be a contractor. But I wanted to see the world…and that’s what modeling allowed me to do.”

When other models complained about the work, Holloway just laughed. “We’d have cappucinos and bagels and whatever you want and they thought it was hard labor. They didn’t know hard labor. But it wasn’t a fulfilling job. I had to move on to something else.”

Acting seemed likely, he says, because both require an ability work in front of a camera. “You become comfortable around people and you learn to accept being judged.

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Lost Finds End Date; Final Seasons to Air Uninterrupted

The spaced-out odyssey will end in 2010. Monday’s Hollywood trades are reporting that ABC’s Lost will run for 48 more episodes over three seasons, each of which will consist of 16 episodes and air uninterrupted.

Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who months ago expressed their desire to set an end date — around the 100-episode mark, though this actual plan racks up 119 (a third of which will have only seemed to be Jack flashbacks) — have signed on to stay on until the swan song. Lindelof tells the Hollywood Reporter the setting of an end date is “incredibly liberating. Like we’ve been running a marathon and we actually know where the finish line is for the first time.” Adds Cuse, “We can now really map out the rest of the series in confidence. We sort of view Lost as a mosaic. Now there are only 48 more tiles that go into that mosaic, and we’re figuring out… exactly where they all go.”

Even series co-creator J.J. Abrams, off helming a new Star Trek feature, chimed in on the news, e-mailing Variety to say, “It is the right choice for the series and its viewers. It takes real foresight and guts to make a call like this. I applaud ABC and [the studio] for making this happen.

Source: TV Guide

The end to the one-time hit ABC series “Lost” seems to be in sight, and it looks like the castaways only have to spend two more years on the island.

E! Online is reporting that ABC is “days” away from announcing that the sleeper hit will end after its fifth season in 2009, allowing the producers to end the show on their terms, and not on the network’s.

The definitive end date is one of several changes being announced to the show, which include a later start date in 2008 as well as an earlier time slot on ABC. The series has suffered in the ratings tremendously since ABC moved it to 10 p.m. Wednesdays, pulling in smaller live audiences, but bringing in larger audiences who record the show and watch it later.

It’s not clear exactly how many episodes will be left, but early reports from E! said it would be just two more seasons, although they updated their story later in the day saying it wasn’t so black and white.

“I just spoke to insiders at ABC and they tell me the network and producers have reached a decision on an end date, and they are expected to announce it very soon,” E! columnist Kristin Veitch reported in her blog. “This is meant to be a good thing, because now the producers finally can start mapping out the remaining episodes and rolling out some of the major reveals and answers we fans have been waiting for.”

One of the biggest changes could be seen by the end of the current season itself, however. Some critics, including Veitch, have received advanced copies of the show’s third season finale airing in just a few weeks that is being billed as a “game changer.”

“Lost” continues to be one of ABC’s strongest dramas despite the audience erosion, and remains one of television’s top 30 programs, according to Nielsen Media Research. It’s likely that the fourth season of “Lost” will begin in January 2008 and go through a straight run, something that “24″ did on Fox this past season, and what “Battlestar Galactica” is rumored to be going through at around the same time (although it’s not clear if BSG will run all 20 episodes at once, or if it will continue with the mid-season break).

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A rather poor substitute for Korea’s historic Hangang Grand Bridge shown in the American television series “Lost” has provoked intense feelings among some Korean watchers.

In the 18th episode of the third season of “Lost” which aired a week ago, a bridge labeled as the Hangang Grand Bridge appears briefly in the background of one scene.

The story involved the character Sun, played by Korean actress Kim Yun-jin, and showed flashbacks of her life in Seoul.

While the show’s creators managed to get the Korean lettering on the bridge right, their version of the structure looked to be in very poor condition and was very much unlike the real bridge in Seoul.

The location where the scene was shot is not known, but many viewers said it appeared to be a Southeast Asian country.

Some Koreans discussing the episode on Internet message boards called the production sloppy and criticized the show makers for their apparent ignorance of Korea.

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Lost star Matthew Fox has joined the cast of ‘Speed Racer‘ as the mysterious Racer X, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Adapted from the ’60s Japanese anime cartoon, ‘Speed Racer’ centers on a young driver, played by ‘Alpha Dog’ star Emile Hirsch, and his gadget-filled Mach 5 racecar.

Fox joins the recently cast Christina Ricci as Trixie, Speed’s girlfriend, and John Goodman and Susan Sarandon as Speed’s parents.

The film is being directed by The Wachowski Brothers, the men behind ‘The Matrix’ trilogy, for a May 2008 release. Fox will shoot the movie in Berlin during his summer hiatus from his hit ABC show.

Source: ET

Executives behind the hit TV show Lost have stated that Ubisoft Montreal is currently developing an upcoming videogame based on the series.

Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cruse both confirmed the news during a podcast today, claiming that the game will be out later this year. They also stated that the title would be released on multiple consoles, stating “Not just for Xbox [360]; it’ll also be PS3 and PC compatible.”

“We were sitting here with the guys that are making it, [who] actually are from Canada - Montreal. And they did a demo of some of the elements of it and it’s really cool. It’s actually going to be a pretty cool game.”

Ubisoft previously announced that it had acquired the Lost license back in May 2006. Tie-in games are also expected on handheld consoles, but it is currently unknown which studio is behind their development.

Evangeline Fan.com reports:

Evangeline Lilly has recently signed up to do her first feature film debut. The movie is called Afterwards and is being directed by french filmmaker Gilles Bourdos. Afterwards is a supernatural thriller that will also star John Malkovich.
The shooting will last 45 days, will begin in New York City on June 4th, and will continue in Montreal as of July 7th.