Post by bobdoc on Apr 18, 2007 17:38:07 GMT -4
I found a link to a brand new Michael interview on the spoiler site, this time from the Houston Chronicle- I imagine we'll probably have a lot more Michael interviews to post when we get closer to May 9'th. For this one, it's at www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/tv/4724221.html Notable passages are:
And this great little hint:
Still, Lost fanatics buzz loudly about quiet Ben — who insists he, too, is a good guy.
Emerson doesn't help Ben's cause when he informs, frankly, that in the land of Lost, "the day will come when we find out who he's really fighting. And it will make your hair stand on end. You'll wish Ben had been badder.
"Something's coming. And whatever it is will make the battle between the Lostaways and the Others pale."
He also mentions some business about "bloodshed on the horizon," but it's hard to be concerned about anything as specific as bloodshed with that "something" having been said in a voice that sounds just enough like Ben's to cause worry.
On the topic of villains, Emerson suggests Ben's perceived creepiness is America's fault, not the character's. When Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter is mentioned, he says that role was part of "a great tradition: that of the gentleman villain.
"We find that kind of character particularly scary in America, but I don't think it works as well in other places. But we have such a bias against education. A bias against people who speak well. We like men of action. When confronted by a smooth-talking intellectual, we impose a subtext on them. People think Ben Linus is the wickedest man ever seen. But what can we actually charge him with? Very little. Where's the body count? Other people on that show have much more blood on their hands."
Emerson doesn't help Ben's cause when he informs, frankly, that in the land of Lost, "the day will come when we find out who he's really fighting. And it will make your hair stand on end. You'll wish Ben had been badder.
"Something's coming. And whatever it is will make the battle between the Lostaways and the Others pale."
He also mentions some business about "bloodshed on the horizon," but it's hard to be concerned about anything as specific as bloodshed with that "something" having been said in a voice that sounds just enough like Ben's to cause worry.
On the topic of villains, Emerson suggests Ben's perceived creepiness is America's fault, not the character's. When Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter is mentioned, he says that role was part of "a great tradition: that of the gentleman villain.
"We find that kind of character particularly scary in America, but I don't think it works as well in other places. But we have such a bias against education. A bias against people who speak well. We like men of action. When confronted by a smooth-talking intellectual, we impose a subtext on them. People think Ben Linus is the wickedest man ever seen. But what can we actually charge him with? Very little. Where's the body count? Other people on that show have much more blood on their hands."
And this great little hint:
As for those tea leaves in his possession, they have him feeling optimistic. "Based on my reading of the scripts, I think I might make it," he says. "I certainly hope to be on the show next season.
