Henry Ian Cusick — A Washington Post Interview

A few weeks ago, the final cast photo for “Lost” was released and eagle-eyed fans noticed an omission–Desmond wasn’t included.

Fans immediately began to speculate on what this could mean and fuel was only added to the fire earlier this week when a call sheet for the show’s final episode was leaked on-line.

Now Henry Ian Cusick, who plays Desmond, has sat down to talk to the Washington Post’s Jen Chaney about the character and the end of the show.  The interview does contain SPOILERS for the final four episodes, so if you don’t want to know what happens, you have been warned….

Here’s a sample:

Jen: When you got the script for “Everybody Loves Hugo” and got to the point where it says, “Desmond hits John Locke with his car,” what was your reaction to that?

Cusick: I sort of figured it out quite quickly… well, my interpretation of it. I sort of knew why that was. I thought it was a little bit extreme.

I sort of thought that I had to get John Locke into a place where I was trying to wake him up. So it made sense to me. When I’m acting, I’ve always got to make it make sense to me why I do anything. Whether it’s right or wrong, I’ve just got to believe this is the reason why I am doing this and just go with it. Does that make sense?

You can read the full interview HERE.