Thanks to RoswellMouse for this:<\/p>\n
Emilie talks about the December 1st airing of the episode ‘Raised by Another’ on ‘Lost’, the backstory for her character, ‘Claire’. She also discusses her time on ‘Roswell’.<\/p>\n
Claire of the lagoon
\nEmilie de Ravin gets \u2018Lost\u2019<\/p>\nBy IAN SPELLING<\/p>\n
Emilie de Ravin is preggers again. As the mysterious alien Tess on \u201cRoswell,\u201d the petite Australian actress gave birth to an alien\/human hybrid child. And on ABC\u2019s runaway hit \u201cLost\u201d she plays Claire, a plane-crash survivor who\u2019s eight months pregnant and stuck on an island in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe shoot \u2018Lost\u2019 in Hawaii, and it\u2019s a little sweaty,\u201d de Ravin says, \u201cBut it\u2019s not too bad, really. The actual prosthetic stomach is hollow, so it aerates slightly. And I take it off when I can.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, even though the beach is hot, there\u2019s always a breeze in Hawaii,\u201d she adds. \u201cEveryone wants me to complain about the belly, but it\u2019s not that terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those words \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s not that terrible\u201d \u2013 don\u2019t apply to Claire\u2019s dilemma. Not only is she surrounded by strangers, but also a polar bear has attacked the group, an even larger, still-unseen menace killed the plane\u2019s captain and a radio is repeating a 16-year-old distress signal sent from the island.<\/p>\n
A half-dozen episodes into the show\u2019s run, Claire remains a low-key enigma. She rarely grouses and has befriended several of the more visible characters, notably de-facto leader Jack (Matthew Fox), fugitive Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and heroin-addicted rock star Charlie (Dominic Monaghan). De Ravin fans, however, will finally get their wish Dec. 1, with the Claire-centric episode \u201cRaised by Another.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll learn about her back story,\u201d the 21-year-old de Ravin says in her thick Australian accent, speaking by telephone from her Los Angeles home. \u201cI really don\u2019t know how much I can say, but it\u2019s a surprise, what her story is.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens to her is cool and creepy, very creepy in a lot of ways,\u201d she says. \u201cHopefully people will enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n
And what\u2019s in store beyond \u201cRaised by Another\u201d?<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething happens to Claire,\u201d de Ravin says, bursting into a chuckle. \u201cIt\u2019s not something I can talk about. I\u2019ve had a few weeks off, because of some happenings. I\u2019m going back to shoot more soon, but there\u2019s not much to report there yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of it is still a mystery to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to heightening the on-island intrigue each week, \u201cLost\u201d executive producers J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof pull back the curtain on a different character\u2019s past in each episode. And there\u2019s a common denominator to the revelations: Everyone, well before finding himself or herself on the island, was lost, either emotionally or in terms of their life\u2019s path.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s definitely something I\u2019m seeing come through,\u201d de Ravin says. \u201cIn a way, maybe this is all meant to be. Maybe they\u2019re on the island for a reason. Maybe it\u2019s fate and it\u2019s going to help everyone, because everyone was dealing with the same issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe these people just needed to step back and look at their lives,\u201d she continues, \u201cand this is their opportunity to say, \u2018I\u2019m just lucky to be alive. I shouldn\u2019t be worried about this and that.\u2019 And their issues, the ones they had before, are much more irrelevant because of the situation they\u2019re in now. Now they\u2019re just trying to survive.\u201d
\n\u201cLost\u201d debuted Sept. 22, two weeks before the release of the second season of \u201cRoswell\u201d on DVD. The actress relocated from Australia to Los Angeles for the show, and her role as the shadowy alien who came between star-crossed lovers Max (Jason Behr) and Liz (Shiri Appleby) won her kudos and a fervent fan base.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was my first big job,\u201d de Ravin says. \u201cI got to move down here, to L.A. I was just 18. We had a great bunch of people on that show. I had a lot of creative input and worked with people I learned a lot from, people who were very helpful to me, me being new to the country and trying to figure things out. So I have fond memories of \u2018Roswell.\u2019 \u201d
\nWhen the WB network contemplated axing \u201cRoswell\u201d after Season One, fans successfully campaigned for a second year. When WB canceled the show after Season Two, the fans \u2013 by inundating UPN executives with letters, e-mails, petitions, trades ads and bottles of Tabasco sauce, a favorite alien condiment \u2013 convinced UPN to pick up the series.
\nAnd ever since UPN let the sun set on \u201cRoswell,\u201d the show\u2019s followers have lobbied for a feature film. It wouldn\u2019t be unprecedented: Joss Whedon\u2019s sci-fi series \u201cFirefly\u201d flamed out fast, but a best-selling DVD collection has emboldened Universal to gamble on an upcoming \u201cFirefly\u201d film.<\/p>\nSo why not \u201cRoswell: The Movie?\u201d
\n\u201cPeople keep saying that and everyone keeps asking about it,\u201d says de Ravin, who herself appears in the upcoming horror\/comedy \u201cSanta\u2019s Slay.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cBut I don\u2019t know anything. I\u2019ve never heard anything official from the producers about a film. \u201cI hadn\u2019t realized it was such a talked-about subject,\u201d she adds. \u201cIt\u2019s an interesting idea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Returning to \u201cLost,\u201d some fans fear that Claire isn\u2019t long for this world. The IMDB doesn\u2019t list de Ravin as a series regular, and that ominous title \u201cRaised by Another\u201d has some worrying that Claire may die giving birth. The actress welcomes the conspiracy theories, but says that the theorists are barking up the wrong tree.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not it, but the title is interesting,\u201d de Ravin says. \u201cI am a regular on \u2018Lost.\u2019 I think it\u2019s great that people are so worried. It ups the excitement about what\u2019s going to happen, and it means that people care about the character, which is what you want to hear when you\u2019re playing a role.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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