Official Lost Podcast transcript/March 20, 2007
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Kris White: Claire’s dreams take flight, Kate refuses to be fenced out and Jack plays catch.
We’ll have commentary from executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on all that and more in today’s Official Lost Podcast hosted by ABC.com.
[Opening Lost Theme]
Kris White: Welcome to the podcast for the episode “The Man from Tallahassee”, I’m your host Kris, and in today’s podcast executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse join us to talk about last week’s episode “Par Avion”, which includes the much expected revelation that Claire and Jack are in fact related. They’ll also have insights on some of our previous episodes including “Enter 77”. First up though, we have a sit down interview with the actress who plays the long lost member of the Shephard clan Emilie de Ravin. “The Man from Tallahassee” airs Wednesday March 21th from 10 to 11 pm only on ABC.
[Lost Podcast Theme]
[Scene from “Par Avion”]
Emilie de Ravin: It was a really, uh emotionally taxing episode actually. What she’s going through required a lot of pulling from emotion on my behalf and you know sort of being… her character being mentally in just not, not a good stable place. [Laughs]
Kris White: Did you have any music or magazines or anything that you used, you know between takes to kind of take your mind off the intensity?
Emilie de Ravin: Yeah, no I was, I used my iPod a lot for…for that, you know music for different things, when you’re really, especially when you’re, you know working like 3am till 6 at night. You really, you need something there, and it’s you doing all these things. You’re in every scene and you’re the focus of these things as opposed to being in big group scenes where you interject here and there with a line. When you’re really getting down to focusing about serious emotional material, that does help me and keep you focused, sort of, through out the day.
[Scene from “Par Avion”]
Emilie de Ravin: It’s contrary to so many situations and so much more to deal with, uh present day and in her, in flashback life, or life before the crash. So… yeah really interesting.
Kris White: The big question now is: Will Claire and Jack ever discover they’re related? After all, the characters have gone a lot longer than 60+ days without the subject ever coming up.
Emilie de Ravin: Yeah, I'm not um I sure they will. I’m sure they’re going to somehow bring that up whether it’s uh, you know uh, freak happening that it’s spoken about or his name is brought up or there’s a photograph or there’s something found out. I, I think that has to happen, somehow. And I think that it’d be very interesting to work with and for him to find out and for Matthew to deal with this. Realizing he has another family member that you didn’t know about, same thing for me and also whether that dealt with to in future flashbacks for either one of us. That if we really did neither know or you know if either one of us did know prior to and is hiding it or if it really is still unknown to both of us. So who knows? Maybe we’ll never find out. [Laughs]
Kris White: Of course the only people who know if Claire and Jack will ever attend a family reunion together are executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, whom we now turn it over to.
[Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse Theme]
Carlton Cuse: Ahoy Damon.
Damon Lindelof: Hi there Carlton.
Carlton Cuse: It’s been a… gosh darn long while since we had a podcast.
Damon Lindelof: Were you gonna say a dirty word there before you said gosh darn?
Carlton Cuse: I was.
Damon Lindelof: It was it’s been too long.
Carlton Cuse: It’s been way too long.
Damon Lindelof: Carlton where have you been
Carlton Cuse: [Breaths in Deeply]
Damon Lindelof: Why have you… the fans want you, your podcasts. Why have you withheld them from the fans?
Carlton Cuse: Um, well I don’t know really. I have no good reason.
Damon Lindelof: You’ve been busy doing anything?
Carlton Cuse: Um, maybe writing the show, producing the show. How bout you?
Damon Lindelof: I’ve been doing those things, but you know, I there’s always time for a podcast, like right now.
Carlton Cuse: Good. Well let’s get to it.
Damon Lindelof: I can’t wait.
Carlton Cuse: Um.
Damon Lindelof: We apologize
Carlton Cuse: We do apologize but we have an extremely busy, this like the worst time of the year because we’re trying to, to sort of write the last four episodes of the show and we have to kind of get everything sort of organized on a macro level in order to make sure all the parts of our finale fall correctly, and it gets, it’s a lot more difficult upon a story narrative level plus the airing of an episode every week is keeping us really busy with post. So something has had to give and unfortunately it’s been our podcast.
Damon Lindelof: Post is post production. Is that correct Carlton?
Carlton Cuse: That would be like editing, sound, music that kind of stuff.
Damon Lindelof: You mean we don’t write the scripts and then move on? We’re done?
Carlton Cuse: We go sit by the pool.
Damon Lindelof: Yeah.
Carlton Cuse: Unfortunately there’s a lot to um to do in this job. Um, so let’s uh you know. Oh where have you been? Can viewers expect to hear from us in future podcasts?
Damon Lindelof: Carlton is now reading off the sheet that I was so defiantly presenting as actual conversation.
Carlton Cuse: It was so natural.
Damon Lindelof: Yeah
Carlton Cuse: When I actually read it off the sheet I was like wow.
Damon Lindelof: This is what they actually told us to talk about.
Carlton Cuse: Have you thought about being and actor Damon?
Damon Lindelof: I uh, I have not thought about it and.
Carlton Cuse: But weren’t you in a musical in high school?
Carlton Cuse: I'm just gon...
Damon Lindelof: ...civil code...
Carlton Cuse: ...I'm just gonna ask you one more question.
Damon Lindelof: ...otherwise it'll... okay.
Carlton Cuse: (...) Swan Station by Down With Big Brother, 27 posts in the last 90 days.
Damon Lindelof: That's very negative against Big Brother.
Carlton Cuse: "Do the Others or Hostiles know about the Swan station and about the number pushing, or does it not matter to them if it imploded?" I think this is a fair question to answer.
Damon Lindelof: It's a very fair question. I don't think they did know.
Carlton Cuse: Yeah.
Damon Lindelof: I don't think they knew about the existence of the Swan station. For one, Kelvin is down there continuing to push the button, even before Desmond comes, for all that time, well after we know that this purge allegedly occurred. And the Others have completely left him alone. So, if they do know about it...
Carlton Cuse: It might make some certain amount of sense, too, that if the - if there was an incident in the Swan station, and there was this electromagnetic anomaly, and this sort of Chernobyl kind of circumstance there; the DHARMA guys wouldn't probably want a lot of other people to know about it. I mean, it would be a definite need-to-know basis because of that kind of circumstance, wouldn't it?
Damon Lindelof: Yeah. It would. And we know that in the Pearl station, they monitor the Swan station. So it's possible that the Others found out about the Swan station once the Oceanic survivors showed up; once Locke found the Hatch...
Carlton Cuse: Right.
Damon Lindelof: ...um, it's possible that they were, uh, able to... to check it out, but I don't know. Might we be finding out about that in the next couple weeks, Carlton?
Carlton Cuse: Uh... we might... we might learn a little more about that.
Damon Lindelof: Interesting.
Carlton Cuse: Absolutely. And I - and it also seems kind of, um...
Damon Lindelof: In the Nikki and Paulo flashback episode, perhaps?
Carlton Cuse: So are you saying that the Nikki and Paulo flashback episode isn't all frivolity?
Damon Lindelof: That there were - might actually be some intense mythological answers buried deep within the frivolity? Yes.
Carlton Cuse: Or maybe one intense mythological answer buried within the frivolity. [laughing]
Damon Lindelof: [chuckling] Yes, the aforementioned issue.
Carlton Cuse: Let's say one... one - um... Yeah, I think that's a... that's a good question. But I think their knowledge of the Swan was pretty limited. And I think that when Ben came over there and saw that these people were pushing a button every 108 minutes, I think his skepticism was genuine.
Damon Lindelof: I agree.
Carlton Cuse: Alright. Well, I think that's pretty good; that's pretty good, you know - I know it's a little rusty; it's been a while, but glad to be back in the swing of things.
Damon Lindelof: That's what this WD-40 is for. When you're rusty. So you don't squeak.
Carlton Cuse: So, uh, thanks for listening, especially if you've made it this far. Really, thank you a lot.
Damon Lindelof: Yes. What are you doing with your life? Go outside; plant a tree. Please.
Carlton Cuse: And uh, we will be back to talk to you about Nikki and Paulo sometime very soon.
Damon Lindelof: Yes. What's the... what's the title of that episode?
Carlton Cuse: Uh... why don't you tell them what the title is?
Damon Lindelof: It's "Exposé".
Carlton Cuse: Oh.
Damon Lindelof: "Exposé".
Carlton Cuse: That's an interesting title.
Damon Lindelof: I think it's the first title that actually has an accent over one of the vowels.
Carlton Cuse: That's true.
Damon Lindelof: And we... we are very judicious about using accents over vowels.
Carlton Cuse: There are a lot of rules about using accents on the show.
Damon Lindelof: I think, in this case, we pulled it off.
Carlton Cuse: Yeah, I'm very curious to know why it's called "Exposé".
Damon Lindelof: You'll find out very - you'll find out almost instantly, in fact; I would argue in the teaser of the show.
Carlton Cuse: Wow. That is so cool.
Damon Lindelof: Alrighty.
Carlton Cuse: Anyway, well I personally love Nikki and Paulo, so I'm looking forward to that, and I'm looking forward to talking to you about that more, next time when we have our next podcast. So, for now, ... Carlton saying goodbye. Damon, thanks a lot. I'm glad to be here with you.
Damon Lindelof: Thank you, Carlton. I really enjoyed... enjoyed our time together.
Carlton Cuse: Okay. Bye-bye now.
Damon Lindelof: You didn't even read that. See ya. [both chuckling]
[Lost end credits theme music]
Kris White: That's it for this podcast. Join us again next week for more inside scoop on Lost, including an exclusive interview with the actress Elizabeth Mitchell. "The Man From Tallahassee" airs Wednesday, March 21 from 10 to 11 PM on ABC, and is available the next day at abc.com.
