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Jorge Garcia as Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
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Garcia: |
Jorge
Garcia (born April 28, 1979 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA) is an American
actor who first came to public attention with his performance as
Hector Lopez on the show Becker, and is currently starring in the
American television series Lost. Jorge also performs as a stand-up
comedian.
Garcia was also a prominent character in Troma Studio's mega-budget
film, Tales From The Crapper. The film is notable for Jorge's
portrayal of a raccoon-headed young man who is unlucky in love. |
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'Hurley' Reyes: |
Prior to
Oceanic Flight 815
Hurley is a Latino from the Los Angeles area. Before the crash he
becomes extremely wealthy, winning a $114-million lottery using
numbers revealed to him by a psychiatric patient in a mental hospital.
The day after the winning draw, Hurley quits his job and spends the
day with his friend Johnny (DJ Qualls); he hopes their carefree ways
will continue despite his sudden wealth, but Johnny is clearly shaken
by the revelation. Afterwards, people around Hurley are afflicted by
misfortunes: his grandfather suddenly dies during an interview with
news crews; lightning strikes the priest at the funeral; his brother
loses his wife to another woman; his mother breaks her ankle while
getting out of the car to see the new home Hurley has bought for her;
the house then catches fire; he is falsely arrested after being
mistaken for a drug dealer; and his previous place of employment (Mr.
Cluck's Chicken Shack) is smashed by a meteorite.
Hurley, however, continues to experience incredibly good luck and his
acquisitions continue to accumulate: overinsurance on a sneaker
company he owns pays off when a fire consumes the factory and causes
several deaths; his false arrest results in a hefty settlement; and he
acquires ownership of a box company in Tustin, California. By the time
of the crash, his net worth is $156 million. Despite this, Hurley
eventually comes to believe that the lottery numbers he used — 4, 8,
15, 16, 23, 42 — were cursed.
When Hurley returns to the hospital to discover the origin of
"the numbers," the patient he acquired them from, Leonard,
reveals that he heard them when working with a naval officer named Sam
Toomey. The two of them had heard the numbers when monitoring radio
signals from the Pacific Ocean. Hurley tracks down Toomey to his home
in the outback of Australia, only to find out from his wife that he
had also thought the numbers were cursed, and killed himself to
finally escape them. Hurley is on Flight 815 while returning from this
visit, despite many incidents that almost cause him to miss the
flight, because he does not want to miss his mother's birthday. Hurley
now believes that the airplane crash was his fault.
On the island
Since coming to the island, Hurley quickly bonds with Jack and
Charlie, and manages to sustain fairly strong relationships with
everyone else, probably due to his apparent friendliness and
straightforwardness. However, he opens up to very few people on the
island. He reveals his secret — he is worth millions of dollars —
only to Charlie and Jack, although Charlie treats it as a joke, and
Jack gives little reaction. While Hurley appears to be happy-go-lucky
and often provides comic relief, he may have had a troubled past,
which he has alluded to on occasion; his past with the mental
institiution is also still unknown. He is very active on the island,
creating a golf course to ease people's tensions; taking the census
that reveals that Ethan was not on the flight; heading into the jungle
to find Rousseau; and ultimately recovering a battery for Sayid to use
for the raft's radar.
Hurley accompanies Danielle, Jack, Locke, Kate, and Arzt into the
jungle in the season finale of Season 1. With Arzt's demise, Hurley
again assumes the blame for everyone's misfortune. After returning to
the hatch, Hurley discovers that the serial number on the hatch
matches the numbers he played in the lottery, and he unsuccessfully
tries to keep Locke from blowing the hatch open. Once Desmond abandons
the underground bunker to the castaways, Hurley is assigned the job of
inventory in the supply closet. His previous experience with sudden
privilege makes him fearful of what the food distribution task will
mean to his standing with the others. He is prepared to blow up the
bunker's pantry with the unused pack of dynamite from the Black Rock,
but Rose talks him out of it. He decides instead to hand the food out
freely to whomever asks for it, pointing out to Jack there is no
feasible way to ration it.
Hurley thinks he has a chance for a romantic relationship with Libby
in the episode "The Hunting Party". Hurley becomes closer to
Libby while doing laundry with her in "Fire + Water," but
has the feeling that he knows her from somewhere else. Libby claims it
is because Hurley stepped on her foot when he rushed onto Flight 815
in "Exodus: Part 3".
In "One of Them", we find out that Hurley has a secret stash
of food from the hatch. Sawyer catches him with the food and makes him
find the tree frog that is bothering him. He tells Sawyer that he is
aware that he is fat, that he has always been fat. He also says to him
that even though he has stolen food, everyone else still loves him. |
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Information
and image taken from:
ABC's Lost Site and Wikipedia.org |
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