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Mandeville native Ian Somerhalder was an unknown before he landed a spot on the cast of 'Lost.' After tonight's episode showcasing his character, he won't be an unknown anymore. Wednesday, January 12, 2005 Dave Walker Boone and Shannon may be the most enigmatic members of the huge cast of "Lost," the ABC network's castaway classic. Played by Mandeville native Ian Somerhalder and actress Maggie Grace, they appear to be constantly bickering siblings, overprivileged but otherwise underwhelming. Advertisement Right? Probably not. We'll learn more tonight. A breakaway freshman hit as Nielsen's No. 10-rated series for the season, "Lost" has at times veered riskily toward "Twin Peaks" territory in some of its fantastic sub-stories, but the biggie-size roster of characters and their post-plane-crash predicament has hijacked the imaginations of an average 15.9 million viewers each week. At 7 tonight on WGNO-Channel 26, Boone and Shannon finally get their "flashback" episode. In one of the drama's most endearing tricks, the backgrounds of the involuntary islanders have been revealed, one-by-one and bit-by-bit, as the season moves on. Interviewed by telephone from the show's Hawaii base, Somerhalder, who recently turned 26, said he couldn't reveal specifics of tonight's episode except to say, "It was the best week, the most intense week, that I've ever had shooting." He actually said more, but we're saving it for the end of the story, "Lost"-style. Son of a north shore massage therapist (Edna) and building contractor (Robert), Somerhalder was a globetrotting fashion model at age 16. His acting career jump-started in 2002 in the college-set film drama "The Rules of Attraction," in which he co-starred with a gaggle of youth-market sex symbols, including "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek, "7th Heaven's" Jessica Biel and "Blue Crush" babe Kate Bosworth. This year, he got "Lost." . . . . . . . The creation myth for "Lost" says that the show was conceived as a scripted "Survivor," then came together in a frenzy of on-the-fly scriptwriting and an international casting search accomplished in all of three weeks. When Somerhalder's agent told him about the show's creative overseers -- J.J. Abrams, creator of "Alias," and Damon Lindelof, a veteran of "Crossing Jordan" and "Nash Bridges" -- then about the show's stunning setting, reading for a role in the pilot was a no-brainer. "I went, 'Yeah, could you please get me in a room with these guys,' " Somerhalder said. "Sure enough, it was a good thing." Favorable critical buzz for the show began to build as soon as the cinematic pilot episode was circulated to TV critics. "It set up expectations that we didn't know we could meet," Somerhalder said. "This is a television show that looks like a movie, and it's really incredible, this thing. "Before it aired, we felt like we had this really great secret, and we were about to tell everyone that secret." The fickle tastes of viewers couldn't be predicted. Before the recent quality infusion of "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," "Wife Swap" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC stood for All But Canceled. As viewers began to find "Lost," the show's cast kept working in comparative isolation. "None of us really knew," Somerhalder said. "We definitely knew that we were working on something that was going to be good or great, but you don't know how the public's going to perceive it." Somerhalder has had just a few opportunities to be recognized by viewers, but it's happening more and more, he said. It's bound to happen even more after tonight's episode. "Whatever town you're in, whether it's in Los Angeles or Ohio or wherever, there are going to be some of those 16 million somewhere around you, and I think that's the reality of it," he said. "It's just a pretty large scale." . . . . . . . The breakout success of "Lost" came as no surprise to Debi Hutchins, a 35-year old mother of two from Canton, Maine. "From the day he got the script, he was so excited about the project," said Hutchins, founder and volunteer Webmaster of www.iansomerhalder.net. "Before he had the part he was telling me what a fantastic show it was and how much he wanted to be a part of it." Hutchins first contacted Somerhalder about hosting a fan Web site when he co-starred in "Young Americans," a short-lived WB network series circa summer 2000. "I was interested in Ian, and had seen a bunch of his modeling work and, to be perfectly honest, I was kind of an old dog who wanted to teach myself a new trick," she said. "I wanted to learn how to build a Web site. "He's exceptionally intelligent, in ways you would not expect. It's very hard to pin him down into one category, almost impossible. He's very bright, extremely funny and sweet. You should see him with little kids." When Somerhalder dropped his e-mail address into an online chat promoting "Young Americans," Hutchins wrote him. To her surprise, he responded. "It just took off," she said of the Web site. "To this day, it still amazes me. I think a lot of it's due to Ian. He's made himself very accessible." Indeed, in addition to subsidizing the advertising-free, profit-eschewing site (Hutchins paid for it out of her own pocket for several years), Somerhalder contributes to a feature for which readers submit questions for him to answer. For celebrity palaver, the regular Q&A -- its title, "The Friday Five," denoting its publication schedule and weekly question total -- is remarkable in its frankness. Sometimes employing earthy language, Somerhalder appears incapable of guile in the forum, revealing favorite authors (Nietzsche, Faulkner, Thoreau and Freud, among others), dissing rival shows (most recently the WB's "Smallville," on which he once had a recurring guest role) and riffing on such passions as metaphysics and hotel heiress (and Paris sibling) Nicky Hilton, with whom he was romantically linked for several months. "I love that people take five minutes out of their lives to e-mail someone a question," Somerhalder said. "They can ask some pretty good questions. It's a really cool thing. I'm grateful to Debi." "I think he likes that nobody's censoring his words," Hutchins added. "It's not a magazine editor changing what he says or taking bits and pieces of it. I change nothing. Spell-check and some punctuation." . . . . . . . Elsewhere on the Internet, there are clues to the revelations in tonight's "Lost." Hutchins has seen the spoilers but is reluctant to share. "His character's going to change a lot in the near future," she said. Somerhalder said story lines and character arcs are a hot downtime topic even among members of "Lost" cast. Writing for a dozen-plus principal actors, a cast of more than 40 total castaways, plus uncountable surprise island inhabitants and creatures -- not to mention a castaway dog, whose "flashback" episode ought to be a real howl -- can't be easy. "It's hard to create dynamics between 14 actors all the time," he said. "It takes a while for story lines to play out. "You're in the hands of Damon and JJ. There's no other way to go about it. By the way, you're in Hawaii. It's the greatest group of people I've ever been around, maybe will ever be around. It's all perfect. "These guys are geniuses, two-legged geniuses walking around. It's going to work out." Yeah, yeah, yeah. But how? And when are we going to get that very special dog-flashback episode? It better be coming in February sweeps. "There is a transformation happening and the good thing is that by the end of the episode, Boone is affected by his experience on the island," Somerhalder said. "We're going to start seeing that. "The island itself is starting to change. Locke (the island mystic, played by Terry O'Quinn) and I discover something that's going to change everything, and that's also really cool." "I'm excited to see what's been going on with Boone, too. It's taken two to three months to get to that episode, and three months is a long time to wait for something like that."
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Damn, Locke just knocked the shit out of Boone!
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WTF?? Who tied up Shannon?? Was it that Kinky Sayiid??
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Shannon - it's what's for dinner.
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BTW, any signifigance as to why Sawyer showed up in Boone's backstory???
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