Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox)
Where we left him: A disheveled, despondent Jack ended the season in a funeral home with Ben, standing over the body of John Locke/Jeremy Bentham. "I now accept and am a believer that my destiny lies on that island and going back," Fox says, describing Jack's state. (Co-creator Damon Lindelof) "has taken him to the point of being a broken man, and his only option is the one that gives him the biggest salvation," Fox says.
Where he's headed:"From Jack's perspective, the initial part will be about him getting as many of (the Oceanic 6) to commit to going back and then finding out what he's meant to do there."
Where his beard's headed: It'll be gone. "It's a glued-on situation, which is one of my least-favorite things in the world."
Where his dad's headed: Jack's father, the supposedly deceased Christian Shephard (John Terry), appeared to Michael (Harold Perrineau) on the freighter before it exploded in last season's finale. "You're going to see that character again," Fox says.
Kate Austin (Evangeline Lilly)
Where we left her: Kate, another of the Oceanic 6, "went on trial and got off relatively scot-free (and) she is playing mommy to Aaron back in L.A.," says Lilly.
Where she's headed: Kate's domestic bliss is disrupted by a lawyer seeking her DNA to determine whether she is Aaron's biological mother. That sends Kate on the run again. On a larger scale, getting back to the island "is the primary focus of all of the Oceanic 6. There's going to be a need for fans to hang onto their hats for the first eight episodes because, as is the case with our show, when we come back, they've completely restructured the whole thing. It can be a little jarring sometimes."
Kate & Jack? Kate & Sawyer? "There are so many answers to that question: Who she should end up with, who she will end up with, who I think she should end up with vs. what 20 million other people think. I think inevitably part of her redemption has to be being vulnerable to and committing to one man."
Other projects: Lilly went to the Toronto International Film Festival for the premiere of Afterwards, in which she plays a young mother estranged from her husband. The film, with John Malkovich, is "poignant, very heavy-hitting."
Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews)
Where we left him: Sayid, another of the Oceanic 6, is back on the mainland, working as an assassin for Ben. He finally gets together with his true love, and then she gets killed. He kills a man as he helps Hurley escape from his mental hospital. "Basically, things don't go very well for him, if they ever went well for him before."
Where he's headed: "It's explained what he's suspicious of Ben about. There's a Sayid-centric episode. A lot is revealed in that episode, not just about Sayid, but the whole story."
Actor's upside: "The great thing about getting off the (fictional) island is you shoot in different locations and get to wear reasonably decent clothes, which is always refreshing."
On having a sixth-season ending: "Not only was there a shift in momentum, I thought the writing got better. We were always aware that we were part of a piece as opposed to something that would go on meandering and drifting for 10 years or more. I'm very happy with the end date."
Sun Kwon (Yunjin Kim)
Where we left her: "She saw her husband, Jin, getting blown up, along with the freighter and then, years later, she's meeting with Charles Widmore," says Kim.
Where she's headed: "Obviously, she's planning to avenge the death of her husband," and it is surprising whom she blames. Any chance of reuniting with the presumably deceased Jin (Daniel Dae Kim)? Depends on what form "or what timeline," she says.
Is Lost's past/present/future dizzying? "No. I've always been fascinated with time travel. If there's a book about it, I'm the first to pick it up. I love the whole idea of time travel on Lost."
Best feet forward: Last summer, Kim went to the House of Ferragamo in Italy, where she had been selected to receive a custom-made pair of shoes. She gets one pair; another will be added to the Ferragamo museum collection, which includes shoes worn by Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, Kim says. The footwear? "My dream: red-carpet, bling-bling type of shoes."
Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (Jorge Garcia)
Where we left him: Leaving the mental institution, escorted by Sayid.
Where he's headed: At first, "I'm palling around with Naveen. That's the start of Hurley's adventure. If last season was about how we got off the island, this season we now have to get back. And how do we do that, especially when the island is gone?"
Flash-forward? Flashback? "Now, it's not as straightforward as it was. You will get a focus on a particular character, but there's definitely jumping around" in time and between characters. "There are different styles of storytelling."
What he did on his summer hiatus: Garcia did international press in Monaco and London and took a vacation in Ireland. He noticed a difference between American and European fans. "Americans have a certain level of cool," he says. "Europeans go right to screaming."
Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick)
Where we left him: Desmond was one of the castaways who got off the island. "He was rescued. He found the love of his life, Penny, and now he was going off into hiding with her and that would be that. The story could have ended there, but it hasn't."
Where he's headed: "The last thing he wants to do is go back to the island, but he knows people have been left behind. I think he's a good man living with that dilemma." Since Desmond is Faraday's constant, there could be a connection. As the season progresses, he bumps into other characters, "ever so fleetingly."
On story pacing: The last six episodes of Season 4 "kind of exploded. I liken it to a cannon going off. Season 5 is different. It's got a lot more to do with sci-fi, with time and space and all those sorts of things."
What he did on summer hiatus: Cusick, father of three boys, spent time at home with family, hosting his mother, his sister and her children. "We hung out here in Hawaii."
John Locke/Jeremy Bentham (Terry O'Quinn)
Where we left him: As Bentham, he was in a casket in a funeral home in Los Angeles. As Locke, he was alive on the island when it disappeared. "I knew by the time I did (the casket scene) there would be more for me to do," O'Quinn says. "I'm still at work."
Where he's headed: O'Quinn's not sure, but "I love the stuff I've had to do so far." Ben and Locke "have one of the most exciting scenes in the whole series. It's an actor's dream."
Name game: John Locke and Jeremy Bentham are both names of English philosophers. "I'm not sure how that applies to Locke's actions as he goes forward, if he goes forward. The question remains whether it's meaningful or whimsical."
Momentum as end nears? "Absolutely. Anybody familiar with horses understands what happens when you're heading toward the barn. They perk up their heads, and there's a lot more energy. I feel these guys are heading toward the barn."
Ben Linus (Michael Emerson)
Where we left him: Ben turned the frozen wheel, disappearing from the island as it moved and, as an earlier episode revealed, popping up in a faraway desert at a future date. "So there's lost time, and lost time is one of the themes of the current season."
Where he's headed: Ben advises Jack on how to get back to the island, leading to interactions with others in the Oceanic 6. "Ben has never had scenes with but half the cast, but suddenly that's changed. He has new and interesting scene partners and scenes with new dynamics."
Where he could be headed: "I think (Ben and Charles Widmore) are now the two forces. They represent the two armies, but a lot of battles take place by proxy or scattered across space and time." As for his take on Ben's nature, "I'm happy to say in a way I'm no clearer on that than I was three years ago."
From time-travel to vampires: Emerson spent his hiatus with his wife, actress Carrie Preston, who was shooting HBO's True Blood. His project: a one-time performance of Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor before 5,000 people at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state.
James 'Sawyer' Ford (Josh Holloway)
Where we left him: Sawyer, riding in a damaged helicopter with members of the Oceanic 6, whispered something to Kate and then jumped into the ocean to get rid of enough weight to keep the chopper airborne. He swam back to the island, meeting up with Juliet. "He has lost everything he loved basically or has given it up," Holloway says. "Maybe he feels that something is healed by saving (Kate), that there's some redemption there."
Where he's headed: A shirtless Sawyer joins with Juliet and the freighter folk in trying to figure out what's happening to the island and stop it. As to the wardrobe deficit, "That was an issue I brought up, but they didn't seem to care about my opinion very much. (Eventually) I do get dressed."
On ending after six seasons: "I like the fact we have an end date. I feel the show has become more concise now." Does he know the end? "Hell, no. I wish I knew. I've never been right except when I guessed that the island moves a couple of years ago. That's the only thing I've gotten right in the whole Lost series."
What he did on his summer hiatus: Holloway played Wino, a tattoo artist and stoner, in Stay Cool, a comedy film from the Polish brothers that also stars Chevy Chase, Sean Astin, Hillary Duff and Winona Ryder. "It's fun, because it's such a removal from anything I've done."
Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell)
Where we left her: "She made sure everyone got on the boat and was left in charge of all the survivors on the beach," Mitchell says. "Then it all goes horribly wrong. Of course, the (freighter) explodes," and she thinks all are dead. "All she has in front of her is her bottle of booze and Sawyer."
Where she's headed: "It's a different Juliet because she's in the midst of crisis that is the first part of the season. You're dealing with Juliet in survival mode, which she's always in, but it's more frantic." She interacts with Sawyer and freighter people.
Sawyer & Juliet? "She's always dealt with him as an irritant, as he has with her. Now, they're thrust together, and it's a funny position for these two people." Possible romance? "You never know where it will go. They definitely have a kind of antagonistic banter."
Surprised survivor: "I've enjoyed Juliet so much," says Mitchell. "This role has gone on longer than I thought it would. She's the kind of character who creates all kinds of problems. She was not particularly well-liked by (the first-season Lost-aways). I thought she would be horribly murdered."
Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies)
Where we left him: Good question. "He was (in the ocean) en route to the freighter, bringing people to be rescued. He's the one principal character in sort of a no-man's land."
Where he's headed:" Faraday is the one character most equipped to translate the phenomenon they're encountering" to both characters and viewers. The character, who arrived via the freighter, "has a pretty intense trajectory this season."
Quick study: Daniel Faraday is a physicist, and Davies has had a lifelong interest in physics. "As a kid, I was fascinated with the field of electromagnetism. Of course, the godfather of that is Michael Faraday, and Daniel Faraday is obviously named after him."
Meaningful role: Davies' father died before the start of the season, as did a close friend very recently. "I was struck by how (Faraday's story) happens to resonate with certain aspects of my life that I've been contending with," Davies says. "I'm grateful to have this trajectory of Faraday's story line."
Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader)
Where we left her: Charlotte was on the disappearing island, as was fellow freighter colleague Miles (Ken Leung). Earlier, she had kissed Faraday and then walked away. "That's basically like, ‘What? Now I've got to wait the whole hiatus to find out what that means.'" Mader says.
Where she's headed: "We're all sort of on different missions. Half the people are trying to get off the island, and then you're trying to figure out what Charlotte (and others) are doing and then all of a sudden it's a really remarkable fight for survival."
Why freighter folk fit in: "The reason we worked so well is because we were an integral part of the story line," Mader says. "I think the reason, when it didn't work before, was that people felt, 'Why do we have to have these people?' It didn't make sense, like the people in the back of the plane or that random new couple that was supposed to have been there all along."
What she did on her break: Mader plays the ex-wife of Ewan McGregor's character in an upcoming release, Men Who Stare at Goats. It stars George Clooney, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.
Source: USAtoday
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