Getting photos from Lost set was something huge and we barely had anything with the actors when they were filming, so even a totally blurry picture was like a godsend. After all these years, still got the same feeling though. We’ve just found this from 5×02 with Liz and Josh. đ
This is the part about Juliet&Sawyer and Elizabeth from a 2014 interview with Damon Lindelof:
3. Storyline you didn’t think the fans would love, but they did.
Putting Sawyer and Juliet together. The “LeFleur” episode where we essentially said, we’re not going to give the fans the opportunity to see them flirting with each other and developing feelings over timeâŠwe’re just going to stuff it down their faces. We’re going to do a time card so like, they basically travel back in time and then the next time we see them, all within in the span of the same episode, they’ve been living amongst the Dharma initiative for a period of time, and they are now together and they are into each other.And so it was just sort of like, this is not a build. It’s a law. It has happened. We got excited about that story because we loved Elizabeth Mitchell so much, but as we started talking about it, both Josh [Holloway] and Elizabeth were not happy. They were like, âHey guys, we love you, we trust you, but it ain’t gonna work.’ And Elizabeth was just saying, âThere is just no chemistry between us, I love Josh as a human being but you have done nothing to build this up. You haven’t laid any of the groundwork.’
And we were like, âThat’s why we love it so much. It just comes out of nowhere. You just have to totally commit!’ And they were like, âWe’ll do our best.’Â And I just started to have that feeling in my stomach like, this is a real show killer. Like, when you put two beloved characters in an intimate relationship with each other and they don’t have chemistry, you end up making the characters look like fools and you can really piss off the audience. Then we saw the episode, and we said, we think this kind of works! But it could be a complete and utter disaster. And it wasn’t until it aired and the audience was like, ‘OK, we are OK with this, we are going to go down this road. We are now accepting Juliet into this sort of love dynamic that was previously only occupied by Jack, Sawyer and Kate.’
Source: E! (September 22, 2014)
Hi!!! Look what Syd sent me: pictures from the LOST Season 6 Yearbook made for cast and crew and a lot of them are never seen before!! How amazing is this?! Thank you so much Syd for this gift, you’re wonderful!!!!
Look at Liz in the 3rd pic with that rifle! HAHA!!!! Her laugh and smile are so precious! I hope these photos make you as happy as they make me, have a great Sunday! đ
Hi, there’s another article about LOST with a touching part about Juliet &Â Sawyer’s relationship. I think you would like to read it. đ
“The finest example of a good character moment is Sawyer and Julietâs relationship in season five. The two of them, after being caught on the Island spinning recklessly through time like a skipping record, are finally forced to settle in the 1970s in the Dharma Initiativeâs midst. Neither has any real reason to get together. By then, weâd already been forced to invest in either a Kate-Jack or Kate-Sawyer pairing. But the show flashes us three years into their relationship, and, in a single moment, sells their coupledom almost effortlessly because the characters have been through enough apart that we understand what they need and can provide for one another. Sawyer needs someone who doesnât cotton to his bullshit. Juliet needs someone who believes in her and isnât trying to own her. Both need to feel trusted. And in an instant, you were with them until the end. When Lost gets something right, itâs really gets it right. Itâs people who serve as its beating heart, and who make watching worth it, far more than the showâs many showy philosophical discussions.â
LOST Series Finale aired 4 years ago, so….
This show will never be just a show and those amazingly beautiful characters will never been just characters.
What a cast! <3
Thanks to everyone who worked at the most terrific masterpiece of the tv history.
Thank you so much Elizabeth for your Juliet Burke, always and forever! <3 <3 <3
NBC released a sneak peek at Wednesdayâs episode: an interview with Rachel Matheson. LOL!
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And to all the Losties: HAPPY LAFLEUR ANNIVERSARY! 5 Years, guys, can you believe it?
This interview with Liz is from NBC Upfront video.
Will Lostâs Sawyer and Juliet Reunite? Revolution’s Jon Favreau and Elizabeth Mitchell Drop Scoop
Make. It. Happen.
While talking about tonight’s season finale of NBC’s Revolution with the always-luminous Elizabeth Mitchell, a certain fellow Lost alum’s name popped up as a potential future guest star: Josh Holloway.
“I’m a fan and I’m excited to see [him return to TV!],” Mitchell told us of her former Lost love interest, who will star in CBS’ new thriller Intelligence. “I would be excited to see him read the phone book. He’s Josh Holloway!”
This is from an interview with Damon Lindelof where he talks about Juliet & Sawyer. <3
When the show wasnât taking risks, thatâs when it wasnât any fun to write. The problem with taking risks is theyâre risks, so you donât always come up aces. We did this episode called âLa Fleurâ in the fifth season. The big risk that we took in that episode was, not only that we were going to jump ahead three years in time with all the castaways on the island — who basically got indoctrinated into Dharma — but the big risk was that Sawyer and Juliet were going to be a couple, and you werenât even going to see it develop. You saw one glimmer of them having a scene together, and in the next one theyâre full-on in a relationship. We were just going to fast-forward to it all. When we saw the first cut of that show, we were like, “This is literally going to ⊠it doesnât work at all. This is going to fail.” But we already shot three episodes beyond this, we were committed. Elizabeth Mitchell and Josh Holloway both told us, “Weâre not sure if we can sell this.” Our gut told us that Sawyer and Juliet was going to work if we just give it time and believe in it. It was like Tinkerbell: Just clap your hands, and itâs going to work. Somehow, through the editorial process, we willed that episode into working. But before it aired, we had already started coming up with a plan, as writers, to cut Sawyer and Juliet. We were fairly sure that we had done enough damage control for the episode not to be terrible — but the audience was going to reject that relationship. When they saw the episode, they loved it.
Source: Hollywood Reporter – Thanks Yiyi for the head-up!
As Kurt and Blaine battle it out with the Doctor and Rose in EWâs Greatest TV Couple of All Time championship, weâre unveiling our favorite couples, who didnât advance as far as we would have liked. Hereâs the case for Sawyer and Juliet of Lost.
I didnât know I wanted Sawyer and Juliet to be in love until they already were. Thatâs the thing about Lost: itâs time-trickery cuts out everything except mystery and revelation, which makes a nameless Island fill with dread and a man like Josh Hollowayâs James âSawyerâ Ford into the soul mate of a woman like Elizabeth Mitchellâs Juliet Burke (even if they couldnât make it past round two in our bracket game).
