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Josh Holloway
SawyerAge 35
Casting backstory The drawling Georgia native had only 12 hours to prep an audition for the role of Sawyer, then written as a fast-talking upstate New York con man. ''I just threw the [Buffalo] accent out the window — I knew they'd laugh at me if I tried it. I think that's what they were looking for, someone who was like, 'Oh, f--- it.'''
Our favorite moment Staring down the boar with the same bloodthirsty passion that led him to shoot the man he thought was responsible for his parents' murder-suicide...only to put his gun away.
His favorite moment ''Right before the kiss [with Kate]. The buildup to that — the excitement, the tension, the sex between them — is cool.''
If he could change one thing about Sawyer... ''I'd make his hair less frickin' annoying. I mean, it looks cool, but it's constantly in my way.''
On keeping TV's biggest secrets ''No one ever cared about anything I was in before, so when everyone started asking me things, I was like, 'Blah blah blah.' The best way for me not to do that is for [the writers] not to tell me s---.''
Burning question Sawyer's backstory intersects with the Jack and Shannon/Boone histories. Does his pre-island life converge with any or all of the others? ''No comment,'' says Lindelof. ''But we'll see, before the end of the season, why he popped up in Boone's flashback.''
