Harold Perrineau Interview
Here are some highlights from a recent Entertainment Weekly interview with Harold Perrineau:
So the show keeps everything a real secret, even to the cast?
That’s what I was telling everyone during the first two years: We really don’t know until it happens. I think people thought we were lying, but that’s the total truth. We just don’t know. Most of the time it works out for them. Most people are available; we all want to be on the show, but in that instance it didn’t work out.
Did you know since you left that you would come back?
The idea was [Michael] was coming back, because he didn’t die. [He and his son] jumped on a boat. So the question was always how and/or when he’d come back.
Is it just that they don’t want to chance having any leaks so they don’t even tell you guys what’s going on?
That’s exactly what it is. I understand they have enough people who leak information and put it online, so when stuff happens, it’s not such a big surprise, and if it’s not such a big surprise, the show isn’t as interesting. I think that’s part of the reason they don’t talk about it too much.
At Comic-Con, you said you thought there was a good chance Michael was in the coffin in the season finale —
I actually didn’t say that. People asked, ”Who’s in the coffin?” So [producers] Carlton [Cuse] and Damon [Lindelof] looked at me and said, ”Well, Harold, who do you think is in the coffin? So I made a joke about how the whole time I actually thought Michael was in the coffin. But my wife told me how online [she read] about how Jack showed Kate the article in the newspaper about the person who died, and it says that the person in the coffin who died was from New York and that the only person he left alive was his teenage son, which led me to believe, and I guess led many other people to believe, that it was Michael who died. He’s from New York, he has a teenaged son — depending on how far forward that is. That whole flash-forward thing, we don’t fully understand yet.
What do you think of their deal to do a final three seasons with a set number of episodes per season?
I think that’s an excellent idea. It’s a much better idea than the show being a really big hit and then they have to keep it on for 10 years and suddenly we see episodes about Sawyer and, like, the spoon he made. Ya know what I mean? [Laughs] I think it’s much better, because they’ve always said they had an idea of how long the show would go, so I’m glad they’re going to just do that and finish telling the story. I mean, it’s great to have a job forever, but this kind of job, it had its own thing going, so you can’t really consider it like you consider most television shows.
Did you get tight as a cast?
It became a lot like that until people started to find their way on the island. The first year or so, we only had each other, so we became close. The show became a huge phenomenon — nobody expected that. It was strange, but we all understood, because it was happening to all of us, and that made us a lot closer. We lived on different parts of the island, and as we became more ingrained in our communities, we didn’t hang as much as we did that first season. It just became regular, and people come and go, which changes things a lot, too. But we all sort of bonded forever because of that [first season].
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