POLL: Least likely to succeed LOSTie in a post-LOST world.

I forgot Shannon and Boone, but what the hell ever.

where's the "90% of these people" option?

i mean idk, i think it's probably not a good sign for tons of these people that, despite the relative popularity of this show, only, like, matthew fox, michelle rodriguez & evangeline lilly would get recognized by 95% of america

like, i've gathered that "locke" is a fairly important character in this show, but i'd have no idea who he is if he burst in my room and kicked me in the face

& i think the comparison to 'friends' is tenuous at best

Yeah, I realized after I made it that it probz should have been "MOST" likely, since like you said 90% of these will just go back to being nobody actors.

I dunno, Friends is a fair parallel because it consisted of a small core of a cast with lots of auxiliary players and, since it ended, you've had the fortunes of the actors go in every direction.

yeah, if i had to choose "most likely to succeed"... i would go with josh holloway maybe? that's just cuz he looks like a conventional leading man, no idea about his talents as an actor. feel like matt fox & michelle rodriguez have careers that transcend lost. evangeline lilly also i guess

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xp Evangeline Lilly never acted before Lost, and has only done commercials since. Also, lots of people HATED Kate, so I don't expect big things from her in the future.

idk man, i don't know that much about lost, but 'friends' had 6 characters that were in every single episode, with pretty much equal face time, and they were p much just sitting around on couches the whole time -- much more visible, obv aniston was already a huge star while the show was going on (cuz of her haircut i guess)... i don't think it can be accurately paralleled to lost...

like, i feel like 'lost' is totally about the storyline & not the characters. i guess this has been debated or maybe i'm totally wrong, but as an outsider i can confirm to you that the most famous character on the show - "the smoke monster" - is not even a person (?)

like, i feel like "the smoke monster" has transcended lost already as a symbol in pop culture for evil -- i don't think any of the actual human characters ever did that

A lot of these guys are pretty successful already! Alan Dale, Dominic Monaghan, Matthew Fox, Naveen Andrews, Daniel Dae Kim, Emilie de Ravin etc. Even the dude who plays Hurley was in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Probably going to be Malcolm David Kelley, invoking the child actor's rule, or maybe the woman who played Libby.

xp Evangeline Lilly never acted before Lost, and has only done commercials since. Also, lots of people HATED Kate, so I don't expect big things from her in the future.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, June 1, 2010 9:16 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

she was in the oscar-winning 'the hurt locker' too

xp - yeah, poor dude went from cute scamp to awkwardly hulkish adolescent w/ baritone vox just like the kid who played Ben Seaver on Growing Pains (whose name I can't recall because..)

the woman who played Libby

She was actually on the Drew Carey Show before Lost, and has just joined the cast of House for the next season as Wilson's ex wife/new girlfriend. She's set for a while.

Also, I already forgot that Evangeline Lilly was in The Hurt Locker. HA!

Emilie de Ravin (Claire) - by far & consistently the worst of the main cast, tho hotness could alone allow for a thriving career

^ She was just in that movie with Robert Pattinson, but it's not like she was a draw I don't think.

she was so, so bad in the final season

She was okay in sideways limbo world (as okay as Claire ever got), but crazy island refugee Claire was almost always laughable.

She's pretty good in Brick, albeit not in the sort of role you base a career upon.

I haven't seen Brick since it was new. I should go back and watch it again.

V got renewed right, so that's Elizabeth Mitchell set for another year. Boone's busy being a sexy vampire on The Vampire Diaries. Daniel Dae Kim is going to be in the Hawaii Five-O remake. Mr. Friendly was in Happy Town but I think it's already been canceled (title was too misleading, viewers were confused).

I honestly don't have much confidence in Hawaii Five-O being around for very long.

DDK is like the most TRAD AMERICAN HUNK asian actor out there, so he'll have as much work as he can handle, I'd guess.

M.C. Gainey's in lots of stuff, he's recurring in Justified right now, though we'll see if he survives tonight's episode.

I don't know why CBS keeps giving Alex O'Loughlin shows - an exec there must be in love with him.

Just saw that Jean Smart will have a support role in H5O. That's enough to make me at least watch the premiere.

Whatever happens, I'm definitely curious to see what Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson get up to next. Josh Holloway was probably the most charming actor on the show, but I'm guessing (sadly) that a lifetime of shlock awaits.

Emerson and O'Quinn deserve better, and hopefully they won't get typecast. Isn't Emerson a proper theatre actor, anyway?

Plus, odds on Matthew Fox playing Sandra Bullock's husband sometime before 2012.

I predict Alan Dale will never work again.

maybe Holloway will finally get to be Gambit?

I'd like to see Emerson, Cusick, and Fahey in more stuff. Garcia and Leung were so good at comic relief that it'll be a shame if neither of them gets a sitcom in the next pilot season.

I would definitely watch a cop show spin-off with Sawyer and Miles. Wall-to-wall wisecracks.

kinda depends what u mean by "succeed"

like bernard is obv never going to be a leading man (sorry dude) but might get character roles or show up as a supporting character in a csi type series or something

Bernard is/was in something with Alex right?

lol at the idea that jennifer aniston is a runaway success story

yeah i mean she wasn't the lead in a spin-off for a while!

i can imagine Terry O'Quinn turning up in the 24 movie

I voted Claire/Emilie De Ravin.

she's just done a film tho - awful-looking romama

It really bombed, though.

did it feature a bomb that went off?

imagine them all playing other characters in other shows but then having flashes of L O S T

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true answer - lady who played rose

wishful answer - lady who played claire

nb Matt LeBlanc's post-FRIENDS career is going to pwn 95% of post-LOST careers.

JOEY ran for 46 episodes, and EPISODES "is expected to be aired on BBC and Showtime in 2010." He's also listed as an exec producer on JONAH HEX.

Oh man, I forgot all about that Episodes thing. (tbh, I don't see Jonah Hex doing big box office...it won't flop, but it won't be a blockbuster either.)

Matt LeBlanc's actually done more post-FRIENDS than David Schwimmer, who seems pretty happy hanging out counting his money.

Schwimmer directed one or two dire-looking films.

I haven't really thought about lost at all once it ended

Isn't Emerson a proper theatre actor, anyway?

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 12:28 (1 week ago)

yep, he has a background in pretty serious Alabama theater companies and probably other stuff I don't know about.

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o walt

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Michael Emerson (Benjamin Linus) 2

Oh yeah, I'm sure he'll never work again.