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| Lost star Dominic Monaghan has revealed that being written out of the show at the end of the third season could work in his favour. The British actor, who played drug addict rock star Charlie, told TV Guide: “I've been trying to plan the rest of my career, and there's a whole bunch of opportunities that have been up in the air because I couldn't commit to them because of Lost. It was a little bittersweet to be leaving behind surfing and palm trees and beaches, but I think I probably squeezed the last amount of enjoyment I could've got out of that for a while.” Monaghan, who also starred in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, expressed his disappointment at the diminishing screen time Charlie received on the show: “To be honest, as an actor I've been kind of frustrated for a while. I've wanted to do a little bit more. The difference between how much the audience got to see Charlie in Season One as opposed to how much they got to see Charlie in Seasons Two and Three was significant. It's been kind of frustrating for me for a while. So I think it's time for me to move on, you know.” |
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| Lost’s executive producer Carlton Cuse has explained the decision to kill off the popular character of Charlie Pace at the end of the third season. In an interview with TV Guide Cuse stated that axing Dominic Monaghan from the show was dictated by the narrative: "We felt like we needed to pay off Desmond's prognostications. We thought about various ways in which that could pay off, but, ultimately, we came to the conclusion that the best version of the story was for Charlie to die." "We gave Charlie a death that was distinctive from any of the other," Cuse added. "He willingly chooses to sacrifice himself, and does it in an incredibly noble and heroic way. It felt to us like that was the necessary story culmination for Season 3 to feel complete.” Branding Monaghan a "wonderful guy and a terrific actor," Cuse admitted that it was "very hard to say goodbye to Dominic." |
| QUOTE (onlyonekingDom @ May 31 2007, 02:43 AM) |
| (_-) I'm still really sad about Charlie's death. At the same time, though, I wanted him to have a "good" death, and sacrificing himself was definitely that. I hope Claire finds Charlie's ring. :) |
| QUOTE (Faolan @ Jun 1 2007, 12:03 PM) |
| Let's just keep our colective fingers crossed for that Dom and Billy script we keep hearing about. :dancy: |