Recording of the special "Lost" panel at the Hawaii International Film Festival, Oct. 23, 2005. Featuring Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Yunjun Kim (Sun), Harold Perrineau, Jr. (Michael), and Daniel Dae Kim (Jin). Also, Jack Bender (Executive Producer and Director), Jean Higgins (Producer), John Bartley (Director of Photography), Michael Bonvillain (Director), Archie Ahuna (Special Effects).
Artist/Composer:Ryan & Jen Date:2005-10-23 00:00:00 Source:Hawaii International Film Festival Label / Recorded by:Ryan Kawailani Ozawa Keywords:Podcast
000:00 - Jorge Garcia Jokes Around
000:14 - Welcome to the LOST Panel
000:37 - Acknowledgements and Moderator Introduction
002:03 - Moderator Tim Ryan
003:30 - Panel Introductions ("Just part of the ohana...")
008:10 - Ryan: History of TV shows filmed in Hawaii.
010:50 - Ryan: "Last year, ABC president... castaway drama..."
014:28 - Ryan: "Lost is taking us into the 21st Century..."
015:23 - Ryan: "Guidelines for today..."
016:30 - Ryan: "So let's get going..."
016:35 - Jean Higgins on the beginning.
017:50 - Higgins: "I need a widebody..."
018:28 - Higgins: What is a Unit Production Manager?
019:10 - Higgins: How long did you have? Think it was crazy?
020:12 - Jack Bender on the beginning.
021:50 - Bender: "I've never seen this cast on TV..."
023:02 - Bender: "You have to care before you sign on..."
023:40 - Bender: "This comes together very rarely..."
024:42 - Bender: "The secret ingredient during casting..."
025:09 - Jorge Garcia on casting.
026:38 - Higgins/Bender: "Casting actors over characters unusual?"
027:10 - Yunjun Kim on casting.
028:10 - Y. Kim: Effect on career in Korea?
029:02 - Y. Kim: How long to say yes?
029:20 - Garcia: How long to say yes? (iPod Mini)
029:40 - Harold Perrineau on casting.
030:42 - Perrineau: "We love your work... your name again?"
031:48 - Perrineau: Wanted a black actor? Just a father?
032:57 - Perrineau: Leaving the stage for TV.
033:27 - Perrineau: How long to say yes?
034:00 - Daniel Dae Kim on casting. ("Exception to the rule...")
035:48 - Bender: How much say do actors have?
037:30 - John Bartley's Chair Collapses
038:12 - Garcia: "Now I'm scared to death."
038:20 - Bender: Does the "magic" affect script changes?
039:22 - Bartley: "Jack shoved me down in the mud..."
040:26 - Bartley: The look of 'Lost.'
041:20 - Bartley: Biggest challenges in shooting.
042:30 - D. Kim: "This is how it works, Tim..."
042:41 - Bartley: Who decides the look of 'Lost'?
043:25 - Bartley: Most difficult scenes to shoot?
043:50 - Bartley: Do you know when you've got the shot?
044:00 - Michael Bonvillain on cameras used in the show.
045:53 - Bartley: What is a Director of Photography?
046:50 - How complex is 'Lost' to produce?
047:30 - How do you make Hawaii look so good?
048:07 - Bender: "The challenge is the backstories..."
048:56 - Is there a master storyboard?
049:36 - How far in advance do you get scripts?
050:51 - Do actors get the whole script?
051:02 - Garcia: "Why? What's going to happen?"
051:22 - Know who dies by who buys a home in Hawaii?
051:42 - What is the security like on the show?
052:04 - Higgins: "Every script is watermarked..."
052:14 - Bender: Dealing with production leaks.
053:20 - Speaking Korean on 'Lost.'
055:00 - Subtitles on network television.
055:20 - Yunjun Kim and Daniel Dae Kim on fears.
055:35 - Y. Kim: "We started out as two-dimensional characters..."
057:10 - D. Kim: "My journey as an Asian American actor..."
057:58 - D. Kim: "I never wanted to be that guy on screen..."
058:40 - D. Kim: Speaking Korean from the outset?
059:08 - D. Kim: "Korean was my first language..."
059:42 - Dialects of Korean?
060:29 - Jorge: "Daniel judges his own ADR..."
061:00 - Bender: Challenges in Casting Korean speakers.
062:00 - D. Kim: Acting and speaking a foreign language.
062:37 - D. Kim: "Toilet paper taped to the walls..."
063:48 - D. Kim: Taking the time to get it right.
064:40 - Could other shows feature foreign languages?
064:08 - Bender: "A lot of shows trying to be 'Lost' this season..."
065:18 - Higgins: Korean speakers at all stages of production.
065:55 - Reaction of Korean community?
066:05 - Y. Kim: "In the beginning, weren't such fans..."
066:38 - D. Kim: "See how many Asian faces there are..."
067:12 - Why is this acceptable now, but not then?
067:45 - Bender: "This was the right show at the right time..."
068:57 - Higgins: "We also have an Iraqi on our show..."
069:10 - How can you sustain popularity?
069:40 - Bender: Monsters within and outside.
070:13 - Did you imagine it would be such a huge success?
070:28 - Garcia: "We were hoping to bring in something like 'Alias.'"
070:48 - Higgins: "From the beginning, I thought it'd be huge..."
071:29 - Being in Hawaii for potentially a long time.
072:17 - Perrineau: "I've lost a couple of jobs..."
072:40 - Perrineau: "We don't know what's going to happen..."
074:30 - Garcia: "I've always wanted to live here, so..."
075:07 - Tim Ryan's Chair Collapses
076:05 - Garcia: "These chairs always scare me..."
076:40 - Garcia: "I try to enjoy what I have..."
076:57 - How much does your character reflect you?
077:10 - Y. Kim: How big Jorge's hair would be after 12 years.
077:41 - Garcia: "I think we're pretty close..."
078:14 - Is there a dark side to losing work?
078:30 - Y. Kim: "Went back to do a Korean film..."
079:02 - D. Kim: "I'm scared to say I like it here... family..."
079:30 - Chat with Archie Ahuna
080:00 - Ahuna: "The challenge is there to create..."
081:18 - Ahuna: "'Lost' is challenging because of the mystery..."
082:10 - Ahuna: 'Windtalkers' and 'Tears of the Sun'
084:05 - Ahuna: What is a Special Effects Coordinator?
084:41 - Bender: "Archie will get creatively involved..."
085:42 - Bender: "The coordination that it takes..."
086:37 - Higgins: "Everybody knows about Archie..."
087:05 - What is the most difficult part of filming here?
087:10 - Bender: "Missing my dogs."
087:40 - Higgins: "Jack and I met for the first time..."
088:23 - Higgins: "It's not a job, it's a lifestyle."
089:00 - How long will 'Lost' stay on the air?
089:15 - Bender: Stephen King on 'Lost'
089:42 - Bender: "Kill it before it dies."
090:40 - Perrineau: "Tells the story it wants to tell..."
090:58 - Perrineau: "If Pam Anderson shows up..."
091:15 - Bender: "I don't see Jorge filling out Walt's college applications..."
091:37 - How will the series will end?
091:50 - Bender: Landmarks in the story arc.
092:30 - Anybody hurt on the show?
092:43 - D. Kim: "I have three active scars on my body..."
093:14 - How many tubes of sunscreen a week?
093:34 - More pressure for the second season?
093:40 - Higgins: "Different kind of pressure..."
093:57 - Bender: "Life as a sophomore..."
094:40 - When did ABC say it was a success?
094:56 - Higgins: "We were the last show to be green-lit..."
095:03 - Bender: "This was not a 'Desperate Housewives'..."
095:20 - Bender: "They were waiting for the bottom to drop out..."
095:43 - Bender: "We reinvented ABC, they'd been in the toilet..."
096:00 - Feel like the unwanted stepchild?
096:12 - Higgins: "We heard we wouldn't last..."
096:23 - Was there magic in the speed 'Lost' came together?
095:52 - Audience Questions
097:02 - Question: Starting a Fan Club?
097:38 - Question: Message Boards on the Web?
097:56 - Garcia: "TheFuselage.com... on there all the time."
098:40 - Garcia: Bought picture of self on eBay.
099:42 - D. Kim: "I have searched for myself on eBay..."
100:10 - Perrineau: "My wife is on all the time..."
100:23 - Garcia: "I bought a sock monkey named Hurley..."
100:49 - Question: Does Daniel Dae Kim cherish every English line?
101:08 - D. Kim: "The day I spoke in Hurley's dream sequence..."
101:46 - D. Kim: "You get words like 'udders'..."
102:02 - Question (Follow-Up)
102:06 - D. Kim: "How much he can understand now..."
102:40 - Bender: "He took a crash course from Berlitz or something..."
103:25 - Question: Archie Ahuna on his Emmy?
103:38 - Ahuna: "Crash scene of the plane..."
104:15 - Question: When Boone died, how did you feel?
104:26 - Y. Kim: "It was really difficult to say goodbye..."
105:05 - Y. Kim: "I hope the point isn't who gets killed next..."
105:18 - Perrineau: "When Boone died, I was pretty secure..."
105:37 - Bender: The story is survival. Can't get too cozy.
106:44 - Question: Was a sociologist hired to work with writers?
107:05 - Bender: "We have psychiatrists work with us."
107:46 - How many writers?
108:00 - Higgins: "Eight."
108:12 - Comment: Thanks for the great show.
109:10 - Question: What impact has 'Lost' had internationally?
109:32 - Higgins: 'Lost' is shown in 187 territories and countries.
110:15 - Bender: Reaction to Norway shot in Orientation video.
111:00 - Garcia: "I went to London... screaming teenagers..."
111:30 - Question: Imagery of the eyeball?
111:42 - Bender: "We start on an eyeball..."
112:43 - Question: Shark had the logo?
113:02 - Garcia: "We didn't catch that until we saw the episode."
113:12 - Bender: "There are no mistakes."
113:20 - Question: Red Cross fundraiser. Backstory effect on acting?
114:13 - D. Kim: "You don't know your character's story arc."
115:30 - Perrineau: "At first difficult, now it's the norm."
115:53 - D. Kim: "It's like real life."
116:03 - Y. Kim: "Every new script is like a new movie..."
116:21 - Garcia: "Characters are contrary to what you'd expect..."
116:41 - Garcia: "Why was Jack so mad about the memorial service?"
116:52 - D. Kim: "The writers adjust to what the actors bring..."
117:15 - About the Hurricane Katrina Benefit
117:40 - Perrineau: "My wife did a lot of the work..."
118:10 - Question: Favorite local food?
118:26 - Perrineau: Lau lau.
118:32 - D. Kim: Poke.
118:36 - Garcia: Banana pancakes at Boots 'n' Kimo's. Burgers at W&M.
118:47 - Y. Kim: Seafood, ahi sashimi.
119:02 - Higgins: Fresh fish.
119:11 - Bender: Fresh fish.
119:19 - Ahuna: Took them all to L&L.
119:30 - Question: Why aren't there more short characters?
119:56 - D. Kim: "I think we have a hobbit."
128:04 - Thank You
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