As always when it comes to Lost, we had questions, and stars Jorge Garcia (the lovable Hurley) and Daniel Dae Kim (the English-impaired Jin) did their best to provide answers…Sadly their tight-lipped producers don’t share much more with them than they do with the audience. But the guys dud the best they could during a visit to the mainland to mingle with the obsessive minds of Comic-Con.
Hollywood.com: Is there any direction that you would like to see your characters go in Season Three? Would you like to see Hurley be more aggressive or is Jin going to learn more English?
Daniel Dae Kim: I would love for Jin to learn more English. That would be a great thing for him, open up some opportunities to interact with other characters. He could have some conversations with Hurley outside of dreams.
Jorge Garcia: We have had very one-sided conversations in the past. It would be interesting for [Hurley] to step up in the new situation, now that three of his friends are away and he is sent to bring back the message. We’ll see how that goes, also I think that he has got to come out of the tragedy that ended last season different somehow. As to what direction that takes him, I don’t know if he becomes more vengeful or becomes more apathetic and inside himself. I don’t know, we will see.
HW: When Hurley and Libby’s romance took off was that something that happened because of the chemistry between you and actress Cynthia Watros, or was it something that was planned ahead?
Garcia: I think they had a plan going in the direction, but it goes back and forth. I think how we do the scenes gives the writers feedback on what parts to amp up and stuff like that.
Kim: I think that is true. I think the writers watch our performances pretty closely and see what kind of chemistry we have with particular people.
HW: Do you guys wish that you had more scenes with certain members of the cast?
Kim: I think that one of the great things about having a cast so large and so talented is that there are a lot of people that you want to play with. There are a few people I haven’t had scenes with yet that I would love to.
Garcia: It’s funny, it gets exciting when you get, like, a new partner. A new scene partner, like, when Hurley and Jin’s stuff suddenly started picking up at one period during Season One. It was funny because around the same time we started hanging out outside of work a little bit and just going different places in the neighborhood and all of a sudden we started getting these scenes together and stuff like that, it’s kind of cool.
HW: Do you have any input with the writers? Or do you pretty much just go along with the flow?
Kim: I think you and I are pretty easy going about that stuff.
Garcia: Yeah, I pretty much go with what they give me. You can, we have [the writers’] phone numbers but I pretty much let them write. My job is just do my little bit. There is such a great comfort and freedom in knowing that my part in the show is just this little piece of the wedge and you don’t have to think about the giant hugeness that the show has become and is going to become. I just play my piano, sing my little song and just do my little thing.
HW: What do you think about the new mysteries that were introduced at the end of Season Two, including that weird statue?
Garcia: That is probably the biggest one for me, the four-toed statue, the foot.
Kim: I heard that statue was supposed to have actually more toes than five, so it is curious to me that it ended up with four, that’s true.
HW: Do you guys ever visit the fan sites and see what people are saying?
Garcia: Oh, I am on fuselage.com all the time.
Kim: Me too.
HW: Do you post or do you just lurk?
Garcia: I post. I get kind of obsessive compulsive about my section and I try to reply to everything, even if it is just a “Thanks.” There is one guy who posts and he locks it out. He just wanted to send me a message so I couldn’t answer it, so there is always a zero there now.
Kim: I go on the fuselage.com a couple of times a year, but I try to answer all the questions that are new. I tend to get asked the same questions over and over again and I am trying to figure out a nice way of saying ”Refer to my previous post.” I think it is great that the fans are on a site like that and it’s pretty unique among television shows to have something like that.
Garcia: It’s tough because the posts get bigger and bigger and it becomes more and more for them to have to sift through to try and find the answers. It gets tricky.
For some more insider hints about Season Three, check out Hollywood.com’s interviews with Lost’s producers here!
