The most divisive TV ending ever defended by its biggest star

On September 22 2004, one of the champion TV shows ever to grace the tiny surface aired its archetypal episode, introducing the satellite to the passengers of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815.

Over the people of six seasons, Lost took viewers connected a rollercoaster travel arsenic they watched characters including Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) observe the secrets of the land that they’d been stranded connected portion warring bony and nail to survive.

While the bid created by Jeffrey Lieber, JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof is inactive hailed to this day, its last ever occurrence – which was aptly titled The End and aired connected May 23 2010 – is simply a changeless root of statement among fans, with immoderate claiming that its one of the worst endings successful TV history.

However, others reason that the affectional decision wrapped up the communicative successful a beauteous mode that couldn’t beryllium topped… and up of the 20th day of Lost’s premiere, Metro.co.uk spoke to Matthew to find retired what helium thought of the discourse.

Warning: spoilers up for the last occurrence of Lost.

In the precise past occurrence of Lost, determination are aggregate ‘flash sideways’ scenes that amusement the characters successful an alternate timeline, successful which Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 didn’t clang connected an land and alternatively landed astatine its planned destination, Los Angeles.

It’s revealed that this alternate timeline is really a purgatory of sorts, which allows the main characters to reunite aft their deaths successful the existent world, earlier moving connected to the afterlife together.

Over the years, this ending has sparked changeless part among fans, with immoderate questioning if this meant that the protagonists were dormant each along… the reply to which is no.

So what does Matthew marque of the ending, which has sparked a 14-year treatment truthful far?

‘In the six years of the show, determination were truthful galore questions asked. There were truthful galore mysteries introduced,’ helium said, having spoken to Metro.co.uk up of his TV amusement C*A*U*G*H*T coming to ITVX adjacent year.

The 58-year-old continued: ‘For me, I loved the mode the amusement ended, and I loved that it was a nebulous happening and determination was tons of country for mentation due to the fact that the radical that emotion the show, they person their ain experience.

‘So I deliberation that Damon Lindelof, JJ, everybody progressive successful the making of the amusement intentionally wanted it to beryllium thing that tin beryllium interpreted by each individual.’

Matthew added that helium ‘liked that it ended successful that way’, earlier recalling however peculiar a clip it was for him and the radical who helium worked with during their six years of filming.

‘Nobody appreciates that acquisition much than me. It was an astonishing six-year play of time,’ helium shared.

‘We were surviving successful Hawaii, our kids were truly young. They inactive person a existent enslaved with Oahu and Kailua Bay. It was a batch of work. Nobody ever anticipated – I don’t deliberation – that the amusement would go specified a planetary hit, and truthful determination was a batch of publicity requirements.

‘I had to question a lot. So it did instrumentality maine distant from the location a lot, conscionable being connected acceptable and doing each the travelling. But each successful all, it was an astonishing experience. I’m precise grateful for it.’

Expressing however overmuch helium loved the ‘incredible memories’ that helium had from making Lost, Matthew past looked backmost specifically astatine what it was similar during their archetypal year.

‘When we were shooting nights and successful the jungle, determination was thing truly astonishing astir moving connected Lost. When we were not connected signifier – and that was a bully information of the clip and peculiarly the archetypal twelvemonth I don’t adjacent deliberation we had stages the archetypal season,’ helium stated.

‘Everywhere we shot, everything astir you was real. As an actor, there’s thing truly astonishing astir that.’

He recollected however ‘brutal’ immoderate of the nighttime shoots were, erstwhile they were filming rainfall sequences that required ‘torrential rain’ truthful that they could beryllium picked up connected camera, and truthful had to deterioration wetsuits to header with the conditions.

‘Even though this doesn’t dependable similar a truly large memory, it was, due to the fact that determination was a definite bonding acquisition that happened successful that archetypal twelvemonth of each of america going done sometimes reasonably gruelling shooting conditions,’ helium outlined.

‘We were each excited astir the happening we were making. We each had been transplanted from galore locations astir the United States to this land successful the South Pacific. Our lives successful immoderate weird mode were paralleling the lives of the characters that we were playing connected the show. The archetypal play was pretty, beauteous awesome.’

C*A*U*G*H*T is coming to ITVX successful 2025.

Lost is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix and Disney Plus.

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