8 de octubre de 2008
HONOLULU (AP) - A man who robbed ''Lost'' star Josh Holloway and his wife at gunpoint in their Hawaii home has been sentenced to 13 to 30 years in prison for his three-week crime spree.
The sentence was imposed Tuesday against 23-year-old Ruben Royce after he pleaded guilty to multiple charges in February. Judge Karl Sakamoto said Royce was responsible for ''a tidal wave of crime'' that terrorized victims in their own homes. The four robberies occurred in the fall of 2005.
Prosecutors say Royce broke into the Holloways' home, threatened the couple at gunpoint, took their wallets and drove off in their Mercedes-Benz.
13 de septiembre de 2008
5 de septiembre de 2008
Jolene Blalock con Sawyer en un Flashback que nunca se emitió
LOST: Entrevista a Evangeline y Josh
Como aun no sabemos nada de la quinta temporada de Lost en cuanto a su estreno, aunque especulamos será Enero o Febrero del 2009, nos tenemos que conformar con pequeñas entrevistas, minúsculos spoilers.
Tenemos aquí a Evangeline Lilly y Josh Holloway que han dado una entrevista para una revista francesa, comenzando lo que les pareció la cuarta temporada. Hablan de lo personal, de la serie y de la relación entre sus personajes.
Evangeline Lilly
¿Sabías que iba a pasar con tu personaje en la cuarta temporada?
Los guionistas son muy cautelosos con los detalles sobre el futuro. Cuando nos llega el guión (que tenemos que devolver y del que no podemos hacer copias) es cuando descubrimos lo que nos depara el futuro. Es mejor poder descubrir lo que le pasará a Kate día a día, que saber que va a morir o cualquier otra mala noticia. No la interpretaría de la misma manera si lo supiera.
¿Con Perdidos se ha lanzado tu carrera?
La serie me abrió muchas puertas, en realidad todas las puertas. Podría pintar, escribir sobre mi vida, poner mi cara a miles de productos, estar en películas, soy muy afortunada, así que estoy en deuda con la serie, y seré fiel a ella hasta en final de mi contrato en 2009, incluso si otros se van.
¿Cuál de esos caminos escogerás?
Esa decisión me horroriza porque no sé qué elegir. Hay mucha presión en el mundo de Hollywood y muchas veces siento envidia por la chica que era antes. Cada mañana alguien me está esperando a la puerta para ver a la estrella de Perdidos. Pero ¿parezco eso realmente en vaqueros con la bolsa de la compra? Me encantaría aislarme en Francia porque incluso en Paris me siento tranquila. Un día pregunté una dirección y no me reconocieron como Kate, sólo como una turista perdida. Perdida pero feliz.
Josh Holloway y un paso importante en el cine
Nada menos que con Winona Ryder, Hilary Duff, Jon Cryer, Sean Astin y Chevy Chase. Según se comentó será una comedia romántica que ya se está filmando este mes en la localidad de Santa Clarita en California. La película ha sido escrita y producida por Mark y Michael Polish, pero sólo Michael es el director.
La película se llamará "Stay Cool", será protagonizada por Mark Polish en el papel de un escritor que vuelve a su colegio por un asunto personal, allí se encuentra con el personaje de Winona del que estuvo enamorado toda su adolescencia y a Josh que interpretará a un de los chicos populares, que por supuesto ha sido novio de Winona en la adolescencia.
ANTES DE LA FAMA!
INCREIBLE !
El anuncio de Josh Holloway levanta polémica en Gran Bretaña
Mientras tanto, el dueño de Davidoff se defiende diciendo que tanto el cartel de “Agua Profunda” como el estilo utilizado por Holloway para zambullirse en el mar están bien lejos de la práctica de estilo libre de salto del tombstoning. Aunque las autoridades publicitarias dan la razón al dueño de Davidoff, han decidido que el anuncio no pueda ser emitido en horario de protección al menor, o lo que es lo mismo, antes de las 9 de la noche. Si esto es un anuncio peligroso, deberían retirar todos los dibujos animados que se emiten actualmente. ¡Valiente tontería!
Josh Holloway Talks About His Bachelor Fantasies
Now happily married, the actor who plays the deceitful bad boy Sawyer told Men's Health magazine, "There's a Hugh Hefner that lives in all men."
"When 'Lost' took off, part of me thought, 'Do I cut and run?' I still like to look around, but respectfully and with no intentions. 'Married, not buried,' I always say."
He wed Yessica Kumula in 2004 after he landed the part in "Lost" but says he can't help but fantasize about bachelorhood: "If I were single? Damn, I'd have one girl doing my laundry, one shaving me, one bringing me a cocktail and another one coming out of my tent all hung over."
Josh Holloway: Hawaii Cops Have it In For Lost Cast
Holloway received a speeding ticket in September. "I told 'em they should be embarrassed about giving me a ticket for doing 53 in a 35 zone. I mean, come on! Go catch real criminals."
29 de agosto de 2008
This film was something else for a change. I must agree with the previous commentator that this film contained no bad or good characters. The play was very intense and was refreshingly something new. I could not tell every moment what would happen and to be honest this film lied very near to a book i just read called the Inner phantom. With in every an each person there is something bad, or something that he or she hides. Every and each person has a dark side she or he fears. He has it in him, and sometimes it can get out. And by others it is stronger they kill. Others it sleeps and sometimes it awakes and they cheat on her / his boy / girlfriend or lie.. This film is very near this conception and i must say i was thrilled to the last moment. Watch this film if you want to see something good and else for a change...
"Lost" .... James 'Sawyer' Ford (82 episodes, 2004-2008)
Whisper (2007) .... Max Truemont
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007) (VG) .... Ajay - Nod Intelligence Officer
"Good Girls Don't..." .... Eric (1 episode, 2004)... aka My Roommate Is a Big Fat Slut (Australia: cable TV title)
Addicted to Love (2004) TV episode .... Eric
"Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service" .... Sheriff (1 episode, 2004)... aka NCIS (USA: short title) ... aka NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (USA: new title)
My Other Left Foot (2004) TV episode .... Sheriff
"The Lyon's Den" .... Lana's Toyboy (1 episode, 2003)
Separation Anxiety (2003) TV episode .... Lana's Toyboy
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" .... Kenny Richmond (1 episode, 2003)... aka CSI: Las Vegas (South Africa: English title: informal alternative title) (USA: syndication title) ... aka C.S.I. (USA: short title) ... aka CSI: Weekends (USA: promotional title) ... aka Experts, Les (Canada: French title)
Assume Nothing (2003) TV episode .... Kenny Richmond
Dr. Benny (2003) .... Pheb
Sabretooth (2002) (V) .... Trent Parks
My Daughter's Tears (2002) (uncredited) ... aka Against All Evidence (USA) ... aka Meine Tochter ist keine Mörderin (Germany)
Mi amigo (2002) .... Younger Pal
Moving August (2002) .... Loren Carol
"Walker, Texas Ranger" .... Ben Wiley (1 episode, 2001)... aka Walker (Australia)
Medieval Crimes (2001) TV episode .... Ben Wiley
Cold Heart (2001) .... Sean
"Angel" .... Good Looking Guy (1 episode, 1999)... aka Angel: The Series (USA: long title)
City of... (1999) TV episode .... Good Looking Guy
Aerosmith: Cryin' (1993) (TV) .... Purse Thief
Sofia D'Ascanio
Ingrid Lopez Salinas
Pamela Cristina Urra Toledo
Daiana micaela vallejos
Macarena Contreras
Micaela Belen Serodio
regina ibañez albaladejo
Micaela Battioni
Camila Santaana
Pernanda Pinto Troncoso
María Fernanda Retamal Morales
Simon Denaro
Fernanda Barrientos
Paula Arroyos
Lucila Maragliano
Cristian Ledesma
Patricia Tapia
Yanina Roldan
Esther Lora
Consuelo Garrido
Paula Celia
Ana De Zuasnabar
Does your wife mind the love scenes?
Was that love scene fun or awkward?
As a visible TV star, is it easier being in Hawaii?
Is it hard wearing the same clothes all the time?
And your beard?
What do you think of the plan to end Lost at a certain point?“Already they're talking about that but actually, that has been a suggestion from the beginning. The show, Damon [Lindelof] and J J [Abrams] and Carlton [Cuse] really invested in the integrity of the show, so much so that they were willing to pull three days of production because the storyline was wrong. The beginning of last year, the second episode was my episode but it didn't go. The story wasn't right. It should have been Harold Perrineau's episode because his child had just gotten taken away. Emotionally it didn't make sense. So after three days of production, they said, 'We don't like that. It's Harold's episode.' Boom! They switched it and that ain't cheap. But for the integrity of the show, they really fought for that. So they've really been wanting a beginning, middle, and end to this story. They don't want it to go too long and get watered down and not be good.”
Do you know where it's going? Can you sense it?“No. I sense for me five years it should be done.”
Do you get caught up in it?
Do you have a theory?“I really don't have one anymore because I had a few and then I got laughed at. I was like, 'Well, okay, forget it then.' But I think it's going to be kind of… Have you ever read The Stand? I can't really pinpoint it but there's something about that. And if it's all in our head or somebody's dream or we're all dead, I'm going to be pissed off.”
When you find things out, do you think you'd go back and redo things differently? “No, actually, it has never stopped being the machine it is. I think they're just happy to actually not be so under the gun. I mean, we've done them two days before airing - that close.”
Were you ever worried you'd get killed early on?“Yeah, that was… oh yeah. I was like, ‘I gotta find some humanity or I'm dead.’ So really, any little inkling of humanity they would give me, I'd [grab] on that. Something.”
Is it a question of who Kate will choose?
How did you learn how to get beat up so well?
27 de agosto de 2008
Josh Holloway to Play Gambit in X-Men
Holloway was set to appear in “X-Men 3”, but had to decline the offer. "He auditioned. He signed. He was ready for work”, a source told Moviehole.
“They may say that they just didn’t have a use for him in that movie, but the truth is, Lost wouldn’t let him go for the period of time it was going to take to film his part”.
The film's producer Lauren Shuler Donner told Moviehole, "Remember in Lost? There was a guy in there that was the perfect Gambit, the guy with the straight hair, good-looking, the bad boy… Sawyer. The reason we didn't use Gambit was because in a sense his persona is a bit like Wolverine in that he's got attitude and his power is not quite as exciting as the others."
"That's why we went to Nightcrawler on 2 because he looked different than everybody else and he had a great power. So yes, I think we would weave Gambit within our story, (but) it wouldn't be The Gambit Movie."
Josh Holloway Coulda Been Your Real Estate Agent
Yet even with being a regular on Lost, he thinks his performances on the show are at times wobbly: "...I suck at it sometimes because I get confused."
When asked how he balances playing the complicated Sawyer, a man who is both callous and sensitive, Josh says, "It's been a nice evolution. I miss the simplicity of Sawyer's hard line -- when you're an ass, it's easy. [LOL] I like the subtleties of everything else, but I suck at it sometimes because I get confused."
One thing he does love is that he gets to keep his natural southern drawl (he grew up in Georgia) while playing Sawyer. Josh says, "By nature Southerners like to throw out sayings that help add a little comedy when something's not so comical. But I've got to get back to learning how to lose [the accent] again. For eight years in Hollywood, all I heard was 'get rid of that accent.'"
While Josh acknowledges that 'Lost' was his big break, he admits he thought success would happen to him a lot earlier than it did.
The 38-year-old actor says, "When I first started, I thought, 'I'm gonna be a big star.' Then eight years later, I was skeptical. [Laughs] I was going to move to the country, pursue real estate and be a forest ranger."
"My real estate license came in the mail three days before i booked 'Lost,' he says. "I thought, 'Wow, I'll file that.'"
26 de agosto de 2008
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EL JUEGO EMPEZARA EL VIERNES 29 DE AGOSTO Y AHI TIEMPO HASTA EL VIERNES PARA INSCRIBIRSE AL CONURSO.
EL JUEGO TERMINA EL DOMINGO 7 DE OCTUBRE, TIENEN 9 DIAS PARA COMPLETAR LA PRUEBA.
EL GANADOR SERÁ AQUEL QUE: ENTERGUE MAS COMPLETA Y DE MEJOR CALIDAD, CON MUCHA VARIEDAD DE TEXTO, FOTOS Y VIDEOS
PREMIOS: SERA RECOMENDADO HASTA QUE EMPEZEMOS UN NUEVO CONCURSO, SERA BENEFICIADO CON CANTIDAD DE BLENDS Y BANNERS, APOYO CON LAS FIRMAS, Y JUNTARA
PUNTOS PARA [u]GANARSE LA GOLD QUE SE OTORGARA MES Y MEDIO, EL QUE JUNTE MAS PUNTOS EN CADA CONCURSO, PARA ESA FECHA RECIBIRA UNA GOLD POR DOS SEMANAS.*
TODOS, ABSOLUTAMENTE TODOS LOS TRABAJOS SE POSTEARAN EN NUESTRO BLOG EN CUANTO TERMINE LA COMPETENCIA.
RECUERDEN QUE EL ESPIRITU DEL CLUB ES JUGAR, NO EL PREMIO FINAL. ESPEREMOS QUE LO DISFRUTEN. Y EMPIEZEN A JUNTAR INFORMACION DESDE AHORA LOSTIES!
*los puntos son 10 para el primer lugar, 9 para el segundo,y asi sucesivamente hasta el puesto n° 10.
POR ÚLTIMO ACLARAMOSQUE EL CONCURSO NO ES PARA QUE 'NOSOTRAS TENGAMOS MAS INFORMACION' POR QUE LA INFORMACION ES TODA PARA EL CLUB, LA IDEA ESJUGAR, YA PENSAMOS EN OTROS CONCURSOS MUY DIFERENTES, Y ESTE ES EL PRIMERO QUE S ENOS OCURRIO, NO PIENSEN QUE LO HACEMOS PARA CONSEGUIR INFO AMIGOS!
NEW INTERVIEW
Judy, this is Josh Holloway.
Hi!
Hi, how are you?
I'm fine. How are you?
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I'm doing good. I'm doing good. How are you today? Everything's good?
Everything's fine. It's a beautiful Friday after several days of pour-down rain.
Where are you? I hear your Southern accent.
I'm in North Carolina.
Oooh! I'm from Georgia.
I know. I saw that on your bio, and I thought, 'Hey, he won't laugh at my accent.'
Absolutely not. Actually, it's kind of nice.
I interviewed a British fellow a couple of weeks ago, and the first thing he said after the introductions was, 'Where are you calling from? Your accent is lovely.'
Was that Dominic Monaghan (Charlie from the Lost cast)?
No, I haven't interviewed anybody else from your series. This was Callum Blue from Dead Like Me on Showtime.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK.
Yes, I told him I would keep my accent if he would keep his.
Exactly. This has been a rare opportunity in acting that I have actually gotten to use the accent rather than try and disguise it.
Yes, I do appreciate that very much when they allow people to actually appear to be from different parts of the country.
Exactly. TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.
Kind of homogenize everybody.
Exactly. Good word.
I wanted to ask you some questions about Lost, but I want to ask you some questions about your career, too. I have seen only the pilot, and I was totally intrigued. It looks like a movie.
Good. That's what we were going for.
Sawyer seems to be of a suspicious nature and kind of antagonistic.
Absolutely.
When we print our article, it will be about the time the fifth episode is airing. When do we learn what is behind Sawyer's nasty attitude?
You would learn in Episode Seven. I just got the script yesterday, and I'm shocked myself. Yeah, Episode Seven is going to be his flashback.
OK. I'm not going to ask you about that, because I know you're not allowed to tell me.
Right, I can't, but it does reveal what that letter is he's reading.
So you're one of the people who has a secret?
Yes, I do. It's so funny because at the beginning of the pilot, I'm loving the way these guys work. J.J. Abrams and Damon (Lindelof) came sneaking into my trailer in the rain and they're like, 'This is what's in the letter. Don't tell a soul.' You're like, 'Oh, my God, that changes everything!'
They do that. They come in and give you just a little information. It's kind of like we're on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't even reveal it to anyone in the cast.
Do you think they do that to keep you from putting hints of some of that into the show prematurely?
Well, sure. I think they do that also because the moments are different when they're fresh. When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it. However, it is important that they do come in occasionally and give you those little bits of information because it does color your performance, as it should, but they don't give you too much time to dwell on it. Just enough time to kind of let it sink it, and then you have to experience it. Boom. I love the way they work that way. For example, the monster, I don't know what it is. I still don't know. They don't tell us that. Which plays on our performance. None of us really know what it is, so it's the fear of the unknown, you know, as much as it is that there is actually something out there. It's that kind of stuff. That's kind of the way it works, and we like it that way. But by Episode Five, you're really not going to like me. (He laughs.)
You get worse?
Oh, yeah. He's definitely the guy you're going to love to hate. But the beauty of it is that there's always a redeeming thing. He knows he's flawed, which is key. He may have a bravado toward other people, and so forth, but then they'll catch that moment when the people leave and you see inside and, 'Uh oh, this is coming from somewhere.' So, I love that, the way they're building it up and not letting anyone in on it yet. But they know something's there.
Do you like playing that kind of role, a strong character, no wishy-washiness at all?
I'm loving it. I'm loving it, because it's the part of everyone in us that doesn't get to get out, that's politically incorrect. It's not accepted in society, but we all have a flip side to us that, 'Man, if I could say what I really thought about this person.' You don't get to let that out. I'm Southern, you're Southern, you're know we're raised especially not to let that out. So for me, it's something, I live with it in me, but I'm not used to expressing it. So I've got a lot in myself stored up that I can use. I've got a lot of ammunition for that, and it's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time. It is uncomfortable. Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that. Normally, that's just not my nature, so it's been a discovery for me to be able to do that, and I find myself, I get the script, and I'm like, 'Oh, no, he's even worse. Oh, no.' You want him to be better, right? I want him to be redeemed, and it's just not the nature of the character. And that's hard to accept because part of me wants to lessen it, make him a little nicer. And the writers are like, 'No, no, no, that's coming.' So you're like, 'OK, OK.' You try to put in, 'Can I just help her here? Can I do this?' They're like 'No, but you can do it with a look later.' So I'm like, 'Wow. OK.'
What can you tell me about episodes two through four in relation to Sawyer? I know you can't tell me the later stuff, but since this will come out about the week that Episode Five will air, what has happened to you between the pilot and then?
Let's see, without giving it away. Boy, this will be tough. I'm the worst, because I'm so like, 'Yeah, this happened and this happened.' He definitely unforgivingly establishes who he is to everybody. There are certain things he does that, of course, affect all the other characters, but he doesn't give a damn. He does something that makes him indispensable, in a way. People need him. So he creates a need for people to need him. It's not a very nice way. It's undeniable. There again, he's instinctual, and he is basically prepping to survive. He is surviving, and he's going to be one of the guys, in his mind, that leaves this island. In those episodes, he's kind of setting that up. Whereas most other people are really helping each other get through this thing, trying to help each other survive, my guy is kind of a solo. He doesn't care what you're doing, or the pregnant girl, or anybody, unless it's got some sort of payback for him.
Will we know by then why Walt's puppy hasn't come to be with the people instead of wandering through the woods?
I don't think so, actually. He's definitely found and he comes around more. He's around more, but at first, they don't really address that, do they? But they do later. Oh, that story gets really interesting. It's so interesting now. With the pilot, they have to do so much exposition and setting up the story and the crash and all that. By Episode Five, you're really going to be sucked into each character and what's going on with these guys and the alliances that are forming and the things people are doing that have effects on different parts, different groups, and how they affect each other. These flashbacks are really opening up doors as well. Which has been a great dynamic they've added to it.
Yes, I love the flashbacks. I was probably as surprised as anybody else that Kate was the one who was in those handcuffs.
Oh, yeah, and they still haven't told us why.
By Episode Five, you still don't know why?
No, you know, they flash back, but this is the beauty of these writers. They only give you enough information to give you some insight, but then it leaves you asking more questions.
Yeah.
And they apply it, of course, directly to the storyline that is happening at the time. So they're going to be able to use this dynamic to go deeper and deeper into each character with each flashback they have. They'll basically give you a set-up and it will answer some important questions for you, and create more. My character by Episode Seven, if they don't want him dead by then, will definitely make you go, 'Oh, OK.' You won't forgive him totally but you'll begin to see some redemption there and possibilities. How am I doing? Am I being too vague?
This is good. If people haven't started watching it by the time the article appears, then we hope what we're telling them and not telling them with be intriguing enough to get them there. I know there are 48 survivors, but they can't possibly deal with all 48 characters, can they?
No. What they do is, well, they're kind of in the background. They're hauling s_ _ _ around. We have big projects we have to do because we're surviving. We have to do this, we have to do that, so there's kind of a general group shot from behind, so you don't really see them, faces or whatever. Then we're all doing big projects. That will slowly, of course, weed down because of the nature of the island we're on and they're going to have to have -- you know, there are things after us.
I was figuring the cast would be pared down a little bit by the mysterious creatures.
Oh, yeah, and it's the beauty of movie making. It looks like there's a bunch of people, when there's really not that many people there. They are addressing that. They're also pulling in occasional people here and there and giving them a line or two and that will also be a pool from which they'll pull guest stars, not just the flashbacks. They will pull people from there, probably not to be regulars. Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed. That kind of thing. I think that's how they're going to use them, for that, and it just adds to the whole dynamic. You're got all these people and they're all ragged out, just trying to survive. It just adds a richness to it to have them around.
One of the things I noticed in the pilot was that nobody seemed to be organizing anything. Like, is there any food on the plane that we should be getting? Except for the Korean man getting those shellfish to feed the pregnant woman and Boone eats a candy bar, you don't really see anybody addressing food or whether they should create some kind of shelter, shouldn't we have a committee that goes around and checks the injured people. That to me was a problem. Is that part of the denial that they're going to be there very long?
Yes. That is exactly it. You've got to understand that each episode is only a day passing or maybe two. So the first few episodes, they do have the plane food and the big guy Hurley... (I interrupted him.)
I love him!
I love him! He's such a great guy, too. He brings around the last of that. Did you see the two-hour pilot or the one-hour?
I saw the two-hour, the one that ends with you shooting the polar bear, and then Charlie says, 'Guys, where are we?'
Right, right, right. You saw the full two. That's basically the first day and a half, two days they've been there. In the next episode, I don't even know if they quite address it there, but by the fourth episode, we're definitely addressing all that. People are organizing, first of all, for water, that's the main thing. We have run out of water; we've run out of food. We've got all this stuff, and, of course, that brings in all this, 'Who's got food? Who's got water?' That pulls in my character, it pulls in all these other characters. Who's got what? That happens, and kind of alliances start to form. I don't want to tell you too much, but things happen. Because we don't tell the rest of the people what's going on when we get back because we don't want to create a panic.
You keep the information about the polar bear from them?
Right.
What about the transmission you discover from the person who was stranded on this island 16 years ago? Do you tell them about that?
I don't know if I should be telling you. It's addressed. We want to keep the hope alive that we're going to be rescued and actually, even though we got that transmission, we still don't know everything. There is still a hope in all of us that we're going to get rescued. So that is addressed, and of course, when it's addressed, it changes things. Everybody, not totally, but it does have an effect on some people, and on other people, it has a different effect. Things are being addressed. Like I said, in the pilot, they had to tell you the story. Now it's going to get intricate into how things are actually happening. Yeah, there are things like, 'Why isn't this addressed?' And the writers are like, 'Just hold on a minute. This is TV. You've got to understand. This is not a two-hour movie and it's over.' So things will be unveiled and yes, maybe in another situation people would do something different. And maybe not. That's what we want to create. We want everybody to ask those questions, 'Why aren't they doing this?' That means you're putting yourself in that place and doing what you would have done. And that's what they wanted to create. We want everyone to ask those questions. What if you were stuck on an island? What would you do?
I think people are used to looking at that from watching Survivor. I'm not a reality show fan, so I've only seen little glimpses of that. I'm much more intrigued by something like this than by fake reality shows.
Well, yeah, that's the weird twist on it. We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art. That's what's at stake with us whereas with them, it's 'Do I get the cheeseburger the guy's going to bring out? Or am I going to win an immunity challenge and get to hang out and have a Coca-Cola?' We don't got that guy coming out to get a cheeseburger. It's all life and death; the stakes are so much higher. However, it's not reality, whereas the reality show, the stakes are much lower, but it's reality. It's interesting. Of course, things are addressed differently when you know you're getting rescued or you know you can call and go, 'You know what, I'm done.' People react differently because the stakes are different.
In regard to your career, in the bio they sent, it says you had developed a passion and love for films at an early age. Did you think when you were younger that you might want to go into acting, or was it that you liked going to the movies?
It was just that. Mainly it was, I've used movies , of course, like everyone has, as my form of escape and kind of, 'Wow, I'd like to do that.' Growing up I always envied people who said, 'I want to do this with my life. I want to be a doctor. I want to be a designer.' I never knew because I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff, so I was like, 'Wow, what a perfect job for me because I don't know what I want to do. I want to do it all.' I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway. I've always lived on that side of life whereas I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. Now I'm crazy reading and stuff because I've been traveling so much I just got into it. But as a kid, I never had the attention span. It was always sports, really outdoor active kind of stuff. I'm more of an experiential person. It just fit me.
You are still into sports, aren't you?
Oh, completely. I just have to gear it down a little bit. Like, I can't dirt bike right now because it's a very dangerous sport and injury means replacement.
And you have a contract.
I have a contract. So the producers are like, 'No more dirt biking.' I'm like, "Gaa, OK.' Snowboarding I still do. I still do all sports-basketball, soccer, anything with a ball I can play pretty much. It's my fantasy, always has been.
I saw in your bio something called Doctor Benny. I'm not familiar with that. Is that a movie or a series?
It's a movie. It was an independent movie. I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started. It became much harder to get an independent movie, but that's how I started. It's a great little movie that for them to actually get the money for the production to be on the level of an actual movie that comes out in the theater, that is where the independent movies run into problems. The stories are great; they're filmed great and everything, but a lot of times, you can just tell the production value is not there. They can't do it. They can do it by selling it to a TV network and they could make it a TV movie, but a lot of independent artists, when they get their first movie, it's kind of like their baby and they don't want to let it go. So you end up not ever seeing it because they wanted it to be theatrical or nothing and it gets so close and then it just peters out. So I've got seven of those. Two of them made it to at least TV. Cold Heart with Natassja Kinski was played all over HBO, Showtime, all of that. The Sabretooth thing was Sci Fi Channel, but the other five movies I did have gone nowhere except in my own experience and, of course, building a reel and all that kind of stuff. It's kind of your training ground, independent movies.
How did you find out about this role in Lost?
It was wild. I've been in the trenches as we call it for the past seven years, so I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue. You'll go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' Being in the trenches is very difficult. I was on another job. I was actually on this new show that I don't think it ever came out. It was this new show called My Roommate's a Big Fat Slut.
Oh, my!
I know. For TV! I was like, 'Are you kidding me?' I think they changed the title. I don't know if it ever aired. I was doing a part on it and my girlfriend called me and said, 'Hey, I just got this fax, and this sounds really interesting.' It was for the next morning. It's 10 o'clock at night and I'm still working on a set. I said, 'Fax it to me here,' so she faxed me the stuff at the production office there. 10 o'clock at night. It comes through and it's like a 38-line monologue. The guy's supposed to be from Buffalo and I'm from Georgia. I'm like, there are accents here to do. There's all this. So I just happened to be waiting to go on set for the next shot, but being in that space your mind is kind of working. I'm on set, it's there, so my mind just sucked that right in, all that dialogue. I just got up the next morning and said, 'Heck, I'm just going to go give it a shot,' you know. I didn't really have any time to think about it or put too much on it. I knew it was important so I got it down good and I went and delivered it that morning. And, of course, it wasn't there because that much dialogue takes a minute. So I'm in the middle of the monologue and it won't come. I kick the chair across the room and start back again. It all just worked perfect for this character. They were like, 'Wow, this guy's got some anger. This is perfect.' They were like, 'OK, that's great.' I was like, 'I'm sorry guys. I just got this at 10:30 last night.' They were like, 'No, it was perfect.' So the next day or was it the day after that? One day passed and then I had to test for network, so it was right in the fire. As soon as I did that test, the next day I had to go test. First I had to test and pass Disney. Then you have to test and pass ABC. So it was a whirlwind. It just went boom, boom, boom. And there I was! I got the call! I couldn't believe it!
They let you keep your accent though, your natural voice.
Yes, and that I didn't know either. I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it. And then I go to do the pilot, and the whole time I hadn't been working on Buffalo because they said 'Don't worry about that.' So I said, 'OK, it's TV, I just have to be not Southern. I have to be just normal.' So I'm working on it. I'm hiring dialect coaches, all this. Then I go do the pilot and the very first day, the first scene I'm shooting with J.J. Abrams, he comes over and he goes, 'It's good but it seems like you're trying to speak without an accent.' I said, 'Well, of course I am.' He completely set me free. He said, 'No, no, no.' I said 'Well, the guy's from New York.' And he said 'No, no, that's before we cast you. Now everything has changed. We want you to be you. Let it ride.' I was like, 'Are you kidding me?' I've never heard that in the seven years I've been in LA, you know. So that really set me free, which has just been a gift. Now they're writing, actually writing for that. They actually write it in dialect.
So where are your from? Where is Sawyer from?
I'm not sure. They don't even tell me that yet. So far his thing is set up in New Orleans, so it is south. They don't say whether or not I'm from New Orleans.
OK.
He must be from the South. That's where he is down there doing his thing. Obviously, he's Southern. They haven't really told me yet exactly where I'm from, so, for me, I'm from Georgia.
OK. Well, they don't have to write that in dialect for you then. You just read it the way you would ordinarily read it.
Exactly. As a matter of fact, you know this as well as I do, if you have somebody writing, say Southern dialogue, you can tell immediately when they're not Southern, because they're putting s_ _ _ in that you just won't say. I wouldn't say that. And they're very liberal about that. That's why I love them. And that's how you can tell you're working with real artists. They're not married to anything. They are with their ideas and stuff, but they want you to bring you to it. So if I say, 'No, this word's not right' or 'this little thing's a little big too hicky, then let's change that,' and they're completely open with it. So, yeah, you make it your own, and they allow me to do that, which is good.
You said your girlfriend got the fax. Why was she notified of this reading?
It was just in my fax machine. It came through the fax. She was in the office doing paperwork or something, and 'Oh, what's this?' She's very wonderful about helping me get things organized and get ready for things. So she just said this one is worth sending to him now instead of waiting for him to get home and be stressed out because it's a 38-line monologue, and he ain't gonna have time. So it was just like that. It was just chance.
That's perfect! How excited are you about this and its possible impact on your career? This will be your first series, right?
Yes. It's very strange because I think about it, but it isn't real to me. I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like. Now, same thing. We're over in Hawaii, so we're removed. We're working every day, long hours, and it hasn't aired yet, so we're kind of in this pocket of no one knows you anyway still. So I've just started getting a taste of it, like going to these press things and actually having to sign some autographs and stuff, so I'm still a little awkward with all that, but I'm excited about it. I'm very excited about it. And I'm ready for it, you know. I'm a private kind of person anyway. I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out. So I think also being removed in Hawaii, it's going to be easier than say if I were filming a show right here in LA and I was here all the time and it was year-round people all the time who know the business and know what's up. Then I think I would feel it a lot more, and I may still, I don't know. I don't know what it's going to do. I know that the work is good and they're excited over at ABC and Disney and it's getting some really good feedback. And just the nature of the role. It's a great role to roll over into movies to show people I could do other things. It's not just a little, insignificant kind of role. It's meaty, which is good. I think it will change a lot.
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work. All the leading men, you know, you've got no shot with that. They're established. To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing. So this is really going to break that egg because that has been the most difficult part. You get really close, people love your work and then they give it to an A. That's what it comes down to. It was interesting because I just ran into that right before I booked this. Two weeks before, I had just done like four months of casting for the remake of Little House on the Prairie for a miniseries with the option for a series. They're going to try to re-do the series. I've never known a TV show to successfully do another series on a past successful series. They can do a movie, yeah, but a series? It's never been done successfully. But I really loved and wanted to do it, because I was up for Charles Ingalls. I love Charles Ingalls. I grew up on that. I grew up on a dirt road with brothers. My father was very much that way, so I was like, 'I've got everything to offer to this.' And I live on that side of life, like I said before. I'm not a dark person really. Charles Ingalls is all about love, so I was just testing for that, and it got down to, they were like, 'You're the guy,' and it was ABC again. So I had just been in and tested for all these same people. For this role when it came up, they didn't even want to see me. They said, 'No, we just saw him play Charles Ingalls. He can't play this asshole.' So I had to completely convince them, 'Hey, hello, I'm an actor. You can flip that script.' That was hard, just to get in there, you know, but, good representation, they got me in there.
So now you'll have to give up the Charles Ingalls thing because you can't do both.
Well, to finish that story, I did all this casting and everything and they were like, 'You're the guy; we're just trying to push it through network,' and they gave it to an A. They said, 'No, he was great but we're giving it to this name because we've been trying to get him from the start.' Which is the way it works. They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go. So that's what just happened. It was perfect, so I had actually a lot of anger to deliver. Gaa, I really wanted that part, so that crushed me that I didn't get that. So it was perfect. It set me up for this one, which is good.
This may end up being better. The miniseries may do well or not so the series itself may be dead in the water.
Yes. Actually, it probably will. This is so much better, to be honest.
You're going to be opposite NBC's new Hawaii. Does that matter?
I think it's a totally different audience actually. I hope them the best, but at the same time I don't because we're right opposite them. I haven't seen it, so I can't really comment. I know the reviews aren't so good, but that's normal for any pilot that comes out. It takes a minute to hook any audience normally. It's kind of hard to say how that's going to go because they've got a good cast. From what I hear about how they're approaching it, it's kind of cool and modern. I don't know. We'll just have to see how that goes. All I know is we beat them in softball. We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.
All of those are being filmed in Hawaii!
In Oahu, exactly. So we have softball games occasionally. I haven't been to one yet, I must admit. I wasn't a big softball player. But I keep getting the reports back. We've won two now; Lost has won two. Two for two. I hope them the best, however it works out. I do think it's a different audience and there's probably room for both. I just hope we do a little better. It is major network, and they go by the numbers. If you don't make the numbers, you're done.
Yes, there have been a lot of shows that bit the dust a little bit early.
Yes, as a matter of fact, X-Files, they cancelled X-Files the first network that had it. Then Fox picked it up and you know the story on that. That was the best show forever. So sometimes they are premature, and I hope they're not going to do that.
I hope they're not either, that they have a little bit of patience.
Yeah, cause I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I'm kind of liking it over there.
From looking at information on Imdb, you're 35.
Yeah, just turned 35.
I never can tell. You look rather tall on TV. How tall are you?
6' 1". I guess I am pretty tall for an actor.
Yes, but that's why you've got that leading man status.
Yeah, that's kind of it, too. I'm so used to small actors, but there are a lot of big actors on this show. The other leading guy is 6, 2 or 6, 3.
Matthew?
Yeah, he's a big ole man. There are all sorts of sizes. Jorge (Garcia) is a big man. He's taller than me and wider than me.
I know he's wider.
But he's a tall man, too. It's good.
Is there anything I haven't asked you about that you think would add to this feature?
Hmmm. No, I think you've pretty much covered it. I hope I gave you enough without getting me in trouble.
I can write 500-550 words, depending on the art we use, so, yeah, I've got plenty.
Excellent. That's about it. I just love the whole concept of the whole thing, the diversity. It's one of the few shows in the line-up that's got some ethnic diversity. I really like that they're doing it, and not just because of numbers and the market and people that they're trying to reach. I love the artists that are involved because they're looking at a bigger picture, a world picture, and they're involving politics and all kinds of things that are current, which is not the norm. That's more for movies, so it's nice they're doing that with TV. That I think is also going to attract a certain amount of people.
But if you look at any group of people on a jet together, you're going to have that diversity.
Absolutely. Absolutely. And I love the fact, for example, that the Korean couple is speaking only Korean.
Yeah, I thought that was neat, too.
They address that, of course, later, too. You find out some twists in that. But it's just good they're allowing that and not trying to shove everybody -- there again with my character -- Southern, letting him be Southern, which is cool. It's good. They're brave. That I love. I love being a part of that.
All right. Thank you Josh, very much. I wish you the best in this endeavor. I think it's going to be exciting.
Thank you, Judy. I appreciate being called to do an interview. It's cool.
OK. Great.
Good luck with your writing it. I can't wait to read it.
I can mail you a copy or send one to your publicist.
Yeah, that would be cool.
You have a wonderful afternoon and evening.
I shall. You do the same.
Take care. Bye.
Bye.
Dice que en cuanto acabe Lost se cortará el pelo, que lo está deseando, y bromea con dejarse un mohawk (peinado punki)
Hawaii está siempre lleno de turistas, y todos llevan cámaras, pero a él no le importa, dice que la gente es muy agradable con él.
Hace snowboard desde hace años, y había empezado a hacer surf, pero alguien del equipo de Lost se cortó la cara haciendo surf, y él se asustó y decidió dejarlo. Concretamente dice que está a gusto en Lost, y que "una herida significa un reemplazo", así que por eso lo dejó.
Le encanta pescar en Hawaii.
Jugó a fútbol y baloncesto durante 10 años, le encanta hacer deporte. También ha probado el submarinismo, la pesca deportiva, el tiro.
Fuente :http://www.lostph.blogspot.com
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Biografia, en inglés pero muchisimo mas completa que la de Wiki
At an early age, he began his love of the world, different cultures and the cinema. He attended the Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia. [Trivia = his first job was picking up dead chickens at a farm. He also worked at a department store.]
After High School, Josh attended the University of Georgia. However, he left after one year to pursue other dreams. He moved to New York City and began a career as a model. He modeled for Calvin Klein and Perry Ellis, amongst others.
Being naturally good looking, he was fairly successful as a model both in the U.S. and abroad (e.g., Europe).
His desire to be an actor began to really surface in the late 1990s and he moved to Los Angeles and began to audition for some small roles. His first acting “gig” was as a vampire on the television series Angel (note: he was credited appropriately as the “Good Looking Guy”). Over the next few years, he continued to take on small roles, such as in Walker, Texas Ranger and his big screen debut, although very short, in Cold Heart (2001). He considers his first real movie role to be that of Loren Carol in an independent film entitled Moving August (starring Sarah Wynter and Eddie McClintock).
Over the next few years he took on other small project on both TV and in the movies including appearing in episodes of The Lyons Den and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He also appeared in several films, such as Mi Amigo (2002), Sabretooth (2002) and Dr. Benny (2003). His versatility even extended to television commercials, such as a commercial for Old Navy in 2003.
In 2004 he finally got his big break on ABC’s new drama series Lost in the role of the con-man, Sawyer (James) Ford. The series has become a huge hit.
2004 was also good year romantically as well for Josh. He married his long-time girlfriend Yessica Kumala in October. He is continually traveling between New York (where he lives) and Hawaii, where Lost is being filmed.
In 2005, he was listed in People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. Incidentally, he was also ranked #6 in TV Guide’s 20 Hottest Kisses of All Time (Feb. 6, 2005 issue) with Evangeline Lilly (who plays Kate on Lost).
In October of 2005, he and his wife were awakened in their bedroom (in Hawaii) by a man wielding a gun. He robbed them of their cash and wallets, then drove away in Josh’s Mercedes-Benz (which he later abandoned).
Even with the success of the series, he keeps on working. He has appeared on episodes of Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Good Girls Don’t . . . He even appeared in the music video “Cryin” by Aerosmith.
He has also finished filming the movie Whisper, a supernatural criminal drama about the kidnapping of a young boy from his home in New England, which is do to appear in theaters in 2006.
Hobbies and Interests: Fishing, sailing, camping, snow boarding, martial arts, motor cross, playing the guitar.
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