Flash Back and Forward to See the Lost Cast Then and Now

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Why Evangeline Lilly Doesn't Want a "Lost" Reboot

Not to origin you a jolt akin to waking up connected an land surrounded by the debris of the level clang you conscionable survived, but Lost premiered 20 years ago.

Destined to motorboat a zillion instrumentality theories and polarize audiences with its progressively head-scratching crippled twists (watch together, statement alone, right?), the ABC bid was a reasonably instant sensation upon accomplishment Sept. 22, 2004, going connected to triumph six Emmys—including Outstanding Drama Series—for its gripping archetypal season. 

And the crippled twists and time-jumps lone got much travel chart-worthy from there.

In fact, the amusement astir the survivors (or were they?!) of the clang of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, starring Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Terry O'Quinn, Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Daniel Dae Kim and Ian Somerhalder—among galore others—was yet truthful chock-full of lore that adjacent showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof may person not known precisely however to onshore the plane.

Or astatine slightest immoderate of baggage that was loaded connected astatine the opening of the travel didn't marque it to the last destination.

But the series' mind-boggling ways were what made it specified a phenomenon, according to Fox, whose spinal surgeon Jack Shepard becomes the de facto person of the radical connected time 1 (like shepherd, get it?) but bows to the unit of expectations successful myriad ways.

"The reply to immoderate question tin beryllium recovered connected Google," the histrion told the Guardian in 2013. "But conscionable arsenic each the net was catching on, you had Lost, which fed connected the nonstop other portion of quality nature: the broadside that wants desperately for determination to beryllium an incredible, unknowable enigma successful our lives and our souls. Everyone gravitated toward this amusement wherever nary 1 knew what the f--k was going on. You couldn't Google the answer."

Well, astatine slightest it wasn't conscionable us.

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But ne'er successful quality was that Lost had a immense array of analyzable characters to get to cognize and basal for (or against), and it should travel arsenic nary astonishment that 1 of those first-season Emmy wins was for casting.

Though the fig 20 is meaningless erstwhile it comes to untangling the secrets of the Lost universe, we didn't privation to hold until 23 years had gone by to uncover what the show's stars are up to these days.

See the formed of Lost then and now:

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Matthew Fox

Party of Five alum Matthew Fox was a earthy acceptable to play Dr. Jack Shepard, the caput of a proverbial household of level clang survivors.

But portion his leading-man beingness led to big-screen opportunities successful the likes of We Are MarshallSpeed RacerAlex Cross and World War Z, Fox didn't consciousness the request to spell backmost aft making Bone Tomahawk successful 2014.

"I wanted to bash a Western," helium told TV Line successful 2022, explaining his agelong hiatus from acting. "It's a precise unusual Western, but it's a Western. And truthful that benignant of completed the bucket list."

More importantly, helium added, astir that clip his girl Kyle and lad Byron with woman Margherita Ronchi "were astatine an property wherever I felt similar I needed to truly reengage. I had been focused connected enactment for immoderate time, and Margherita had been moving the household truthful beautifully, but I felt similar it was clip to beryllium home, and I truly felt similar I was retiring from the business, and moving connected different originative elements that are truly idiosyncratic to me—some euphony and writing."

Fox returned to enactment arsenic a prima and shaper of the Peacock series Last Light in 2022, and helium has booked roles successful the upcoming Yellowstone spin-off The Madison and the Max series The Assassin.

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Evangeline Lilly

After her Golden Globe-nominated tally arsenic convicted slayer (it was self-defense!) with a bosom of golden Kate Austen, Evangeline Lilly fled to the onshore of blockbuster franchises, playing Tauriel successful two Hobbit movies and Hope/The Wasp successful the MCU's Ant-Man films and Avengers: Endgame.

Following 2023's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, however, Lilly—who's besides the writer of the children's publication bid The Squickerwonkers—announced she mightiness beryllium done with acting for good.

"I americium truthful filled with joyousness and contentment contiguous arsenic I unrecorded retired my vision," she wrote connected Instagram June 3, 2024. "I consciousness truthful grateful for my blessings. Stepping distant from what seems similar the evident prime (wealth and fame) tin consciousness scary astatine times, but stepping into your dharma replaces the fearfulness with fulfillment."

Way to instrumentality the initiative. Off-screen, Lilly shares 2 sons, calved successful 2011 and 2015, with Norman Kali.

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Emilie de Ravin

Though large Claire Littleton took a spot of a detour portion traveling from Sydney to Los Angeles connected Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, surviving not conscionable the clang but getting kidnapped, having her baby get kidnapped, amnesia and different assorted trauma, Emilie de Ravin emerged from the acquisition with large memories.

In the upcoming indie documentary Getting Lost, the Australian histrion marveled implicit being portion of specified a "freaking kickass show" that she inactive loves and feels "so lucky" to person been a portion of, "and I don't ever instrumentality that for granted."

De Ravin has continued to act, astir notably playing Belle Gold on Once Upon a Time, yet her biggest relation is ma to 2 daughters and a lad with hubby Eric Bilitch.

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Daniel Dae Kim

Talk astir your large reveals (and we're not talking only about Daniel Dae Kim's shirtless scenes)!

As it turned out, Jin-Su Kwon wasn't the domineering hubby helium appeared to beryllium astatine archetypal sight, alternatively joining Yunjin Kim's Sun-Hwa Kwon successful becoming 1 of the astir beloved TV couples of the 21st century.

Since Lost, the Korean-born histrion has kept engaged doing tons of TV and video crippled dependable work, was a regular connected Hawaii 5-0 and, aft lending his dependable to the animated version, became a prima of the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix, which successful 2024 was renewed for 2nd and 3rd seasons.

"He's deliciously a villain, and that's what I sank my teeth into," the histrion told Entertainment Weekly of playing large atrocious Fire Lord Ozai. After playing truthful galore upstanding characters, "that's 1 of the things that I was truly looking guardant to doing."

When asked if he'd see doing a Lost reboot, Kim told Screen Rant successful February, "If they travel calling, I'll prime up the phone."

Off-screen Kim shares 2 sons, calved successful 1996 and 2002, with woman Mia Rhee.

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Yunjin Kim

After harboring a achy concealed connected the mainland, Sun has a accidental to commencement caller with Jin aft the crash. Their matrimony is renewed and, though it each ends terribly, theirs was a TV emotion for the ages.

Kim has since starred connected ABC's Mistresses, the coming of property drama XO, Kitty and the Korean mysteries series Ms. Ma Nemesis. And successful 2024, American fans were psyched for her two-episode arc on Station 19.

On the idiosyncratic side, she's been joined to her erstwhile manager Park Jeong-hyeok since 2010.

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Ian Somerhalder

Before helium was undead on The Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder was live for awhile on Lost playing Boone, who had been successful Australia rescuing the stepsister he's successful emotion with from her latest atrocious prime earlier their fateful flight.

After becoming the archetypal main quality to beryllium voted disconnected the island—"I conjecture this is TV history, huh?" helium quipped to EW astir Boone's demise successful play one—Somerhalder went connected to play vampire Damon for 8 seasons connected TVD and recovered Brother's Bond Bourbon with co-star Paul Wesley.

Since the 2019 Netflix series V-Wars, Somerhalder has enactment acting connected a acold burner successful favour of farm beingness with woman Nikki Reed and their 2 children outside L.A. The mates launched the supplement enactment The Absorption Company successful 2024.

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Josh Holloway

Josh Holloway joined the ranks of TV heartthrobs arsenic the roguish Sawyer, who on with Jack and Kate made for a astir intriguing emotion triangle until helium fell for an Other, Elizabeth Mitchell's Juliet.

After Lost ended, it was connected to accepting a relation successful 2011's Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, aft which helium starred connected the series Intelligence and Colony before showing up on Yellowstone's 3rd play arsenic a onshore developer who couldn't assistance but beryllium a spot of a rogue. He's owed to re-team with Lost co-creator J.J. Abrams connected his play transgression thriller Duster coming to Max.

In existent beingness Holloway shares 2 children with woman Yessica Kumala.

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Malcolm David Kelley

Malcolm David Kelley was 12 erstwhile helium started playing Walt Lloyd connected Lost, whose kidnapping astatine the hands of the Others sets disconnected a lot of action.

And portion he's acted steadily since, astir precocious having an arc connected Insecure, Kelley is besides known arsenic 1 fractional of the popular duo MKTO, which helium formed with Tony Oller successful 2010.

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Maggie Grace

Maggie Grace's Shannon ultimatey didn't fare overmuch amended connected the land than her, er, over-protective stepbrother Boone, but she did find emotion and was missed erstwhile she was mistaken for an Other and unceremoniously shot.

Her TV toughness came successful handy, however, for playing Liam Neeson's oft-abducted girl successful the Taken franchise, vengeful vampire Irina successful the past 2 Twilight films and intrepid writer Althea connected Fear the Walking Dead.

Grace and hubby Brent Bushnell welcomed a son successful 2020.

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Naveen Andrews

Naveen Andrews' Sayid Hassan Jarrah was a lover and a fighter, the Iraqi peculiar forces seasoned having the accidental to showcase his assorted combat and intelligence-gathering skills successful the hunt for his mislaid emotion Nadia, which took a crook erstwhile helium ended up connected Flight 815.

Among his post-Lost projects, helium played Dr. Hasnat Khan successful 2013's Diana, starred successful the bid Sense8 and Instinct, and played Theranos laminitis Elizabeth Holmes' spouse successful corporate malfeasance Sunny Balwani in Hulu's The Dropout.

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Dominic Monaghan

What a twelvemonth 2004 was for Dominic MonaghanThe Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won the Oscar for Best Picture (plus 10 others) and helium debuted arsenic heroin-addicted rocker Charlie Pace connected Lost.

After getting clean, falling successful emotion with Claire and going retired a hero, helium hosted the BBC America escapade bid Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan and appeared successful a fig of indie films (as good arsenic a non-indie movie called Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker).

He besides hosted the podcast The Friendship Onion with Billy Boyd, who played Pippin to his Merry successful the LOTR trilogy.

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Jorge Garcia

Played by Jorge Garcia, Hurley was different feline who was having a unsmooth spell successful the existent satellite and had a accidental to beryllium utile connected the island.

The quality ended up getting a Weezer album named aft him (Garcia is connected the screen of 2010's Hurley), portion the histrion moved connected to Californication, Once Upon a Time, Hawaii 5-0, diagnostic comedies like The Wedding Ringer and The Ridiculous Six, and the Max comedy Bookie, which successful 2024 was renewed for a 2nd season.

Garcia has been joined to Rebecca Birdsall since 2019.

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Terry O'Quinn

Speaking of radical who preferred the island, Terry O'Quinn's John Locke not lone survived the crash, helium nary longer needed a wheelchair. So let's say, helium felt a definite intent connected that not-quite-earthly plane.

A seasoned histrion who was antecedently champion known for playing the titular seed successful The Stepfather, O'Quinn has been successful request since Lost with credits including Hawaii 5-0666 ParkCastle RockFBI: Most Wanted, Pieces of Her and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.

Off-screen, helium shares 2 children with ex-wife Lori O'Quinn.

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Harold Perrineau

Since playing Walt's progressively distraught dada Michael Dawson, Harold Perrinau has ne'er been acold from a screen, whether it was reprising the relation of Julian successful 2 The Best Man sequels oregon recurring connected Sons of AnarchyCriminal MindsGoliath, The Rookie and more.

He presently stars connected the MGM+ sci-fi bid From, which is backmost for a 3rd play Sept. 22.

Perrineau's been joined to Brittany Robinson since 2002 and they person 3 daughters together, including West World actress Aurora Perrineau.

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