Rebecca Mader Interview
It must be tough to start working on a show, just to have the writer’s strike cut it short! At least that’s how Rebecca Mader felt right after she started playing Charlotte on Lost.
“Oh, I was gutted. I was having such a good time,” Rebecca said in an interview with UGO. “I had been out there for a few months so I had gotten to spend some time out there and have a great time. I was really, really disappointed. I never really thought it would last this long I was really optimistic, I really thought it would be three weeks or something I didn’t think it was going to be three months y’know.”
Rebecca admits to not knowing much about the direction of her character - which is a common theme with the actors! “I have no idea. I have no idea what is going on. I just knew from watching the show that to see a polar bear in a strange environment is in keeping with the show, and I recognized that it was a Dharma logo, but that was literally all I knew about it. That, and that sand was blowing up my nostrils. That was about it, if you know what I mean.”
She goes on to say that she has no idea what is coming up for her character. “I really am pretty clueless. It’s crazy. Everybody asks that question and it’s like ‘I don’t know.’ I really want to know. I really hope I get to do some fun stuff and get to discover more about this character because it is the most interesting thing I’ve ever done, to play someone so ambiguous in such an ambiguous environment is really, really, really unique. I’ve never had to do this before in my entire career. So I feel like I’m almost in the same seat as the audience, like “What the hell is going on?” and “What the hell is going to happen next?”, it’s really exciting actually.”
Rebecca made sure to catch up on the previous seasons of Lost before getting the job.
“Before I got the offer I bought season one and two on DVD,” she says. “I thought, if I start watching it I’ll get the job, I’ll put it out to the universe and I’ll get the job. I know it sounds cheesy, but I’d just seen “The Secret,” and I was like ‘I’m going to do it, I’m going to act as though it’s already mine.’ I was on like episode 4 of season one when I got the phone call and I was like ‘Yay it works!’ I ended up watching all three seasons in about two, two and half weeks, and I saw he season finale of season 3 right before I went to work the first day in Hawaii, I was there watching it in my hotel room.”
Source: UGO
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