Lost
Character Profile
Aaron Littleton
Flash Forwards

These flash forwards are presented in the order that they were viewed on the show. In parenthesis are numbers corresponding to the order that they flash forwards would appear chronologically for Aaron’s life off the island.

Episode 4.04: Eggtown:
(3) After Kate signs off on the ten year probation she says “I have a child, I’m not going anywhere,” Kate says. Kate goes home to her “son”, Aaron.

Episode 4.10: Something Nice Back Home
(4) Aaron is living with Jack and Kate. Jack reads Aaron a book.

Episode 4.12: There’s No Place Like Home
(1) Ms. Decker, a representative for Oceanic Airways, comes into the cargo area where the Oceanic Six sit. Aaron is being held by Kate. Read more

Julie Carlson, extras casting director for Lost, speaks out on the woes of casting for little baby Aaron!

Julie Carlson is usually more frantic than shy, but whenever she sees a blond, blue-eyed baby at a drugstore or a public park, she knows it’s best to hold her business card at arm’s length. That way no one will mistake Carlson, an extras casting director, for a potential kidnapper.

The tactic works, and that’s good, because finding babies to appear as “Aaron” in the ABC drama “Lost” has become Carlson’s never-ending quest.

Last season, she needed 30 babies. The season before that, 27. She finds them everywhere.

“I spend a lot of time calling doctor’s offices,” Carlson said. “There are mom’s clubs and twins clubs. There are all kinds of people I call about these babies. It’s hard work. And they all have to look alike.”

She needs that many because stardom is fleeting when you’re an infant on camera. One week, you’re cuddly Aaron, aging a day or so every Wednesday night. The next week you’ve literally outgrown the part.

It may take two days to film an episode, but each baby Aaron usually spends very little time on screen. That’s fine with Carlson — the close-ups are a casting headache.

“It scares me when they do that,” she said. “I have to match what has been on film. That is what the public is used to seeing.”

Babies being babies, Carlson always arranges to have an extra infant on the set.

“It may be that one is too fussy, and I need to replace it,” she said. “We have had some great luck. They coo when they are supposed to coo and cry when they are supposed to cry.”

With filming for the fourth season of “Lost” set to start this week, Carlson’s stress level is beginning to rise again. She’s found six babies for the first episode, but none for the second.

“I am frantic about that,” Carlson said. “I am going to call ob-gyn offices. They know who I am by now. I say: ‘Hi, I’m Julie. Have you had any blond-haired, blue-eyed babies born in the last few months?’ ”

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