Watch what you say around the media. “Lost” hunk Josh Holloway says he’s still getting fallout from his remarks a few months ago about marriage and having a roving eye.

It might not seem all that bad: “I still like to look around, but respectfully and with no intentions. ‘Married, not buried,’ I always say.’ ” However, “I caught a lot of flack for that,” admits Holloway.

“The real core is my wife knows that I’m very much in love with her,” he goes on. “She may get angry and say, ‘You better learn — quick,’ but she knows — and I’m trying.”

Holloway maintains his remarks were just an attempt to be devilishly charming like his bad-boy Sawyer character on “Lost.” “It was meant innocently. The character’s kind of sassy and this and that, so I try to be myself — but kind of sassy. You don’t want to hear all about, ‘Oh, I love my wife, and that’s all I do is stare at her all day.’ Well, yeah, OK, I do that, but no one wants to know exactly that. So that was a mistake, a learning process.”

Meanwhile, Holloway is enjoying getting to explore the softer side of Sawyer on “Lost,” now that he ended up with Kate (Evangeline Lilly). As he sees it, Sawyer is not a bad guy per se, “only a good guy who got hurt or wronged in his eyes enough to (create) a defense mechanism. He feels empowered by keeping people away from him and not letting anyone in, but that doesn’t work on the island anymore. … He’s stuck facing his own demons, and his old tricks don’t work now.”

Don’t look to actor Josh Holloway to defend the actions of his character, the wayward Sawyer of ABC’s hit “Lost.”

“He makes the same mistakes over and over again,” says Holloway. “He’s not a dumb person, but he could wise up … I want Sawyer to die badly, kind of as (the) last (heroic) thing (he does). He could do something good.

“There is no redemption for Sawyer. He doesn’t embrace it. His power is in being indifferent.”

But he does see Sawyer opening up to new experiences with this new round of “Lost” episodes, which can be seen at 10 p.m. EST Wednesdays. For instance, he’ll have a chance to be in love with Kate (Evangeline Lily). And, once he returns to the castaways’ island, he’ll also have more chances for humor.

Of course, “I’m sure he’ll have a new head wound, very soon, from somebody, probably a woman,” Holloway says with a laugh.

Indeed, Sawyer does tend to get hit a lot, in the head, and by females.

Undoubtedly those hits to the head aren’t what most of his female fans want to do to him. Sawyer, as well as Holloway, has taken over “Lost” as one of the show’s leading sex symbols in the past three seasons.

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Having spent the bulk of Season Three’s first six episodes, and so far the only to air all year, in captivity on The Others’ Island, Lost is poised to return to the beach. That’s good news for Sawyer, who’s taken the most beatings in the bear cage.

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“It’s going to heat up again very soon but it’s fun now, because it’s been so intense, the beginning part of the season,” said Josh Holloway. “All the beat-downs and head wounds and everything that he’s sustained gets to you after a while. It’s very intense. And as an actor, you’re trying to live it as honestly as you can. So I’m really happy now, without giving anything away. There are some lighter things going on, which is fun for a character. There’s some diversity there. It’s lighter. Some funny stuff.”

Right now, things are good between Sawyer and Kate. Assuming Jack’s plan to free them works, they could be in the beginning of a healthy relationship. “I’m sure that he’s going to mess that up pretty quick because it’s his nature. I don’t know. And actually, as an actor, it’s more intriguing to me if he tried to make it work because it’d be so foreign to him. And to explore that as an actor, that fine line of falling in love, when that is not a part of that person’s make-up is challenging, and would be a fun line to walk. But I’m sure he’s going to mess it up.”

With fans constantly speculating on the every changing mythology of the island, Holloway has an end in sight. “I want a big, bloody Braveheart battle is what I want, really. And I want Sawyer to die badly but kind of as a last thing, he does something good. You know, and chooses that.”

Not that a noble death would ultimately redeem Sawyer. “There’s no redemption for Sawyer, I feel. He’s beyond, he doesn’t want it. He doesn’t want redemption. He doesn’t embrace it, and actually, it makes him angrier in a way because his power is being indifferent. When he’s made to care, made to feel things, it kind of pisses him off. I mean, it’s hard. Then he’ll react and do something wrong so he feels better and gets his power back by wronging someone.”

In the March issue of Elle, Lost hottie Josh Holloway dishes on his fantasy women (Jessica Alba and Barbara Streisand?!?) and the pickup lines he used before marrying wife Yessica in 2004.

His favorite line?

“Did it hurt … when you fell out of heaven?” Ugh, can you say cheezeball? Has that line ever actually worked on anybody?

He says he’s also a fan of, “‘Wow, that’s a beautiful dress. I saw one just like it at Kmart.” He continues, “See, you gotta make them think they’re all that, and then pull the carpet out from under them.”

It seems like all the stars of TV’s Lost are making movies. Of course, a hit show does that to a career. Josh Holloway will leap to the big screen this year in the film Whisper. A mysterious thriller about a child kidnapping in New England, Holloway gave us the scoop on his movie career before he had to go back to selling his main gig.

Sawyer is such an iconic role for you now, how different is your character in Whisper?
“Actually, I chose that role because it was opposite. It was more a Jack type of role. The character I play in that is – yeah, he’s a bad person, but kind of the same story, with a good heart. But it’s a straightforward premise in which that character comes, more like Jack. And I thought that would be interesting, for me to play a more heroic character, but still a little off. So that’s why I chose that.”

How much do you want to have a dual career in movies?
“Well, that’s tough. I don’t. That’s hard. I compare it to burning through the atmosphere. In order to break through the movie thing, you’ve got to burn through that atmosphere and it’s hard. You’ve got to work all year at this pace that Lost is; it’s a fierce pace and you’re constantly doing something. And then you get that little break and you’re really trying to do even better. The pressure’s high.”

Will you have time to promote your movie?
“Wow, good question. That’s always a to-the-minute scheduling process so I don’t know. I hope so. Of course I’m going to be doing my best to do both but Lost does take precedence and I am in Hawaii.”

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Josh Holloway says he and his Lost co-star Evangeline Lilly have become great friends through filming love scenes together.

The hunky actor insists his off-screen friendship with Evangeline has blossomed because of how close their characters - Sawyer and Kate - have become.

Josh told New: “Evangeline and I have such a great friendship now. And we trust each other so much as actors that we are able to actually live it. Our friendship has deepened. When you’re trying to work honestly, it’s natural that you become closer as friends. It’s definitely
not a sexy thing. When you’ve got 80 people watching it can be daunting, but you get used to it.”

Josh has also revealed he gets on very well with Evangeline’s fiancé, fellow Lost star Dominic Monaghan, and says his wife Yessica is friends with Evangeline.

He said: “We have a very good friendship. Evangeline has a great friendship with my wife and I have a friendship with Dom.

“But I’m sure Sawyer’s going to mess it up with Kate pretty quick! It’s his nature.”

Most fans are used to seeing Josh Holloway looking all sweaty and grimy as his character, castaway con man Sawyer Ford, struggles to survive on ABC’s “Lost.”

So it’s a little surreal to see the tall, lanky actor settling into his chair in the bar of this luxury Southern California hotel. For starters, he has traded in his grotty island togs for a stylish all-black ensemble of slacks, leather jacket and a scarf around his neck — partly because a freakish cold snap has turned the air outside chilly enough to accommodate that “Lost” polar bear.

The main thing, though, is that Holloway looks so — well, clean.

The 37-year-old actor bursts into good-natured laughter when an interviewer asks him to start dishing the dirt - specifically, just how filthy he and his castmates have to get for their roles in the Emmy-winning ABC Wednesday drama series.

“We come to the set clean in the morning, I promise, freshly showered, and to be honest, that’s the difficult part of the morning routine,” Holloway says. “I mean, normally an actor goes to a makeup trailer to get fixed up. We go there to get destroyed. Then they bring out what they call ‘the hero shirt,’ the one with all the dried blood and the gunk and it stands up by itself. You put it on and it’s just kinda nasty, because they can’t wash it for reasons of continuity.

“Before we did that scene recently where me and Kate got it on, I did at least get to have a little scene where Sawyer got a sponge bucket, because I wanted the audience to see that he at least had wiped his armpits. It’s incredible, though, how messed up we can get in that trailer.”

If being “Lost” can be dirty work, it also has given Holloway the big break he had been waiting for. Before executive producers J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof cast the California-born, Georgia-raised actor as Sawyer, Holloway had eked out a living in a series of smallish film and TV roles.

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Lost star Josh Holloway would choose his meaty co-star Jorge Garcia if he had to sleep with one of his male cast members - because the heavyweight actor is such a good cuddler.
The 37-year-old, who plays Sawyer on the hit TV show, also has diverse taste when it comes to his ideal woman, naming Barbara Streisand, Sophia Loren and Jessica Alba as the perfect female companions.

When Holloway was asked by American Elle magazine which male co-star he would choose for a tryst, he selected Garcia, who plays Hurley, “Because I know at least he’d cuddle me good afterwards.” Although he’s been married to wife Yessica since 2004, he claims he still dreams about older women saying, “I’ve fantasized about Barbra Streisand. “And I saw Sophia Loren at a restaurant a couple years ago and though, ‘Wow, I’d still go there.’ When asked if he were to be erroneously linked with any particular woman in the tabloids, whom he would choose, he selected someone slightly younger, answering “Jessica Alba.”

Lost star Josh Holloway always ended all of his romantic relationships before they got too serious until he was challenged by his future wife Yessica. The star, who plays Sawyer on the hit show, and his wife have been married since 2004 and he claims he has finally met his match.

He tells American Elle magazine, “I’ve done all the dumping, which is not a good thing. “It’s funny, because I married someone who has always done it as well. I believe I met my match.” The 37-year-old says he did try to break things off early in the relationship adding, “At the very beginning, yes; when I felt it getting pretty serious I went, uh-oh, and wrote the goodbye letter. “But she promptly wrote another letter that trumped it. So I stayed!”

Lost star Josh Holloway may be a married man, but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped looking at lovely ladies.

Holloway, who married his wife Yessica in 2004, told Elle magazine he wouldn’t mind a tabloid rumoured romantic link to Jessica Alba. That’s not all, age ain’t nothin’ but a numba to the 37-year-old actor who added: “I saw Sophia Loren [72] at a restaurant a couple years ago and thought, Wow, I’d still go there.”

It’s a good thing he’s looking and not trying to touch because it’s doubtful any of his old pickup lines would work on these classy ladies: “‘Did it hurt… when you fell out of heaven?’ ‘Wow, that’s a beautiful dress. I saw one just like it at Kmart.’ See, you gotta make them think they’re all that, and then pull the carpet out from under them,” the actor explained.