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Lost actor Henry Ian Cusick believes he “irritated” the showrunners by asking about the show’s various mysteries
Desmond Hume actor Henry Ian Cusick tried to make sense of Lost’s various mysteries by asking the showrunners for answers. They responded with irritation.
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It turns out that the cast of Lost was just as confused by the island’s various mysteries as we were. The science fiction drama kept viewers tuning in each week as a group of survivors attempted to make sense of the mysterious island they were stranded on. There were cryptic numbers, strange animals, a secret hatch, supernatural powers, and more.
Henry Ian Cusick, who played Desmond Hume, did his best to wrap his head around the show’s various mysteries, feeling that it was essential to his performance. “Everything on the show, every script that I was given, I made sense of it in my own head,” Cusick says during a panel at Florida Supercon. “I always had a story, an understanding of what was going on. I never did something that I thought I don’t know what’s happening, except season six.”
Lost season six featured the characters living multiple lives, which were later to be a bridge to the afterlife where the various Oceanic 815 survivors could reunite before crossing over. Hume wasn’t sure what to make of it, so he called the showrunners.
“That’s when I had to phone the producers. I telephoned Carlton [Cuse] and Damon [Lindelof], and I said, ‘Listen, I don’t really know what’s going on.’ They got kind of irritated, because they said, ‘[Angrily] You want us to tell you the end.’ And I said, ‘No, I just want to be able to do my job.’ But prior to that, everything that happened in the scripts, I always had a story. I had a truth for everything I said, and every scene I had.”
In fairness to Cusick, many of us had questions about Lost season six. Heck, many of us still do. It’s comforting to know that he was trying to make sense of it too.
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