Category Archives: Other roles

Terry O’Quinn (Locke) singing “If I Loved You”

Posted on August 28, 2009 | 1 comment

This has been the first chance I’ve had to post anything since I got back from vacation. And what better way to get back into the swing of things than to put up one of my favorite types of posts — one with a LOST actor singing.

The clip is from The Last to Go, a 1991 made-for-TV movie about a husband (Terry O’Quinn) who abandons his wife. A reviewer in EW gave it a grade of B and wrote:

In theory, a TV-movie soap opera like The Last to Go should be miserable…. But director John Erman (Who Will Love My Children?) understands that it doesn’t matter whether the details of a script are cliched; the execution of them can redeem the banality…. Erman gets a typically intelligent, modest performance from O’Quinn.

The song is “If I Loved You” from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. O’Quinn does a good job, doesn’t he?

If you like the song, here’s a masterful version from the 1956 film, sung by Gordon MacRae and Shirely Jones:

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Naveen Andrews (Sayid) dancing

Posted on August 10, 2009 | 2 comments
Naveen Andrews dancing in "Bride and Prejudice"

Naveen Andrews dancing in "Bride and Prejudice"

Naveen Andrews didn’t always play killers! In Bride and Prejudice, a 2004 musical Bollywood adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, he played a role based on Mr. Bingley (Darcy’s friend). This clip shows him in an elaborate dance number:

Naveen discussed his preparation for the role in an interview with about.com conducted shortly before the film was released in the U.S.:

Q: What training did you have for the musical numbers?

NA: Oh Christ, well they had the choreographer, Saroj Khan, who does all those Bollywood films and is the best in her field. And I had to train nine hours a day for about 40 weeks trying to get this s**t done. It’s like traditional Indian dance coupled with M.C. Hammer from the early ‘90s, which has to be seen to be believed.

Q: Would you display your dance skills in a club?

NA: Absolutely not.

Too bad!

Here’s something very funny. Someone took the Bride and Prejudice dance number and used it to make a mash-up with the scene in LOST where Sayid tortured Sawyer:

Not the dancing! Oh no! I’ll tell you anything, just don’t make me watch any more dance! Hah.

The mash-up was made by RemieVander; Bride and Prejudice (c) Pathé Pictures International

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Michael Emerson’s Emmy-winning role in “The Practice”

Posted on July 19, 2009 | 2 comments

I hope the third time will be the charm for Michael Emerson, who has just been nominated again for an Emmy for playing Benjamin Linus, after being nominated for that role, but losing, twice before.

Emerson did win a much-deserved Emmy for an earlier role as a guest actor on the legal show The Practice in 2001. He played William Hinks, a man accused of being a serial killer.

Michael Emerson as William Hinks on "The Practice"

Michael Emerson as William Hinks on "The Practice"

The first segment of the story is about Hinks’ trial. You can watch it in five YouTube videos, which is not as daunting as it sounds, as several of the videos are very short. All together, this segment runs about 15 minutes. If you watch all five videos, you’ll be rewarded with a clever plot twist.

(The network may pull these off of YouTube, as they did previous copies that were posted, so enjoy them while you can.)

Michael Emerson is mesmerizing in this multi-layered role. He acts rings around the other actors. You can also see the similarities between William Hinks and Ben Linus. Hinks is like Ben on a bad day — or, perhaps, on a good day, depending on your perspective:

Continued here: Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 <-- This one gave me chills! | Part 5 <-- Wow! There are several more scenes which are (I think) from subsequent episodes. While the previous scenes reminded me of a chess game, the following scenes are more like a horror movie: Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9

According to Wikipedia (citing audio commentary on the Season 3 DVD), the LOST producers offered Emerson the role of Ben because they liked his work on The Practice. Emerson, though, in an interview a few months ago, said he thought he only “indirectly” got the job on LOST because of The Practice.

He added, laughing, that the two roles are “at least in the same temperature zone.”

Would that be cold (as an icy heart) or hot (as the inner circle of Hell)?

The Practice (c) 20th Century Fox. The screenshot is from video #4, when Hinks is on the witness stand.

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Michael Emerson, 17 years ago

Posted on July 16, 2009 | Leave a comment
In 1992, Michael Emerson was already playing characters that hang out with people wearing jumpsuits ;)

In 1992, Michael Emerson was already playing characters that hang out with people wearing jumpsuits 😉

In this 1992 training film for prison employees, Michael Emerson plays a prison counselor. He looks so young! He’s a better actor now, and, I think, more interesting-looking. Time has been good to him.

He first appears in the video about a minute-and-a-half in:

Posted on YouTube by mariloulem, who has a whole collection of Michael Emerson videos.

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FlashForward — the next LOST?

Posted on June 18, 2009 | 14 comments
Sonya Walger as trauma surgeon Olivia Benford in FlashForward

Sonya Walger as trauma surgeon Olivia Benford in FlashForward

ABC is pitching a new show, FlashForward, as something that will appeal to LOST fans. In the preview video (below), they even start off by saying “From the network that brought you LOST ….”

The show features Sonya Walger, LOST’s Penny, in a starring role. There are also rumors that Dominic Monaghan, who played Charlie, may be in the cast, but the FlashForward producers are just saying “no comment.”

The premise of the show is that everyone in the world, for some unknown reason, blacks out for two minutes and 17 seconds and gets a glimpse of their lives six months in the future, although they don’t know if what they see will actually happen.

I must say, the premise doesn’t really grab me, but it will all depend on what they do with it. When I first heard the premise of LOST — a bunch of people crash on an island — I thought “eh.” And now look where I am, totally addicted.

ABC screened the pilot episode for the press yesterday. One reviewer called it “grand in scope, but uneven.”

ABC already has an official FlashForward site.

The show starts on September 24, 2009 at 8:00 PM (7:00 Central).

Here’s the preview:

Sonya Walger photo (c) ABC

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Terry O’Quinn (Locke) sang — and played a psychotic killer!

Posted on April 21, 2009 | Leave a comment

Here’s another entry in the “LOST actors who sing” series. It’s a strange one. Pay attention to the words:

You think his kids had Daddy issues? 😉

The video clip is from 1989, when O’Quinn was on MTV’s The Big Picture. He was promoting Stepfather II, a horror film starring O’Quinn as “The Stepfather” who escapes from a mental hospital, poses as a marriage counselor, finds a new family, and kills a lot of people.

Here are the trailers for Stepfather I (1987) and Stepfather II (1989), which are unintentionally funny, and filled with scary … hairstyles.

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Josh Holloway (Sawyer) singing

Posted on April 20, 2009 | Leave a comment
Josh Holloway (Sawyer) singing

Josh Holloway (Sawyer) singing

There are so many good singers in the talented LOST cast!

Here is Josh Holloway, before he was Sawyer, singing a country song.

The song was made for a 2002 movie Western called Mi Amigo, but it ended up not making it into the movie itself, only into the DVD extras.

The movie got a unanimous rating of one star on Amazon! It must have been an amazingly bad movie. I can’t remember ever seeing anything else on Amazon that was rated only one star.

One of the Amazon reviewers called it “the worst movie ever.” Ouch! Poor Josh!

The song itself, though, is very nice. The video can’t be embedded, but you can watch it on YouTube here: Josh Holloway sings

Screencap from video (c) 2005 Azalea Film Ventures I, Ltd.

Hmmm … I wonder if calling Sawyer “LaFleur” might be an in-joke, a reference to Holloway having previously worked for a company named “Azalea”?

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