New cast members join ‘Lost’s’ final season
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As production for ‘Lost’s’ sixth and final season ramps up, we’re starting to hear about the new faces we’ll be seeing come January.
Today, Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello reported the addition of Japanese superstar Hiroyuki Shimosawa to the cast. Stateside audiences will know him from his roles in ‘The Last Samurai’ and ‘Rush Hour 3.’ No word on what part he’ll play in the ‘Lost’ world. We used to assume every new cast member was going to be on the island, but these days all bets are off. For all we know, he could be playing the Japanese version of Jin who exists in an alternative universe in which all the characters on the island come from nearby countries (which would make the rest of the characters Canadian and Hurley an Eskimo).
This week, news broke that John Hawkes, best known as Sol on HBO’s ‘Deadwood’ is joining the cast as Lennon, ‘the scruffy, edgy and charismatic spokesman and translator’ for a large foreign company. Hmm, could it be Widmore Industries?
This is the last time we’ll be able to obsess over these tidbits, people, so let’s savor ‘em while we can!
-- Patrick Kevin Day
