Lost on Cover of May 29 issue of TV Guide

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The Lost Year
by Shawna Malcom


After eight months of questions, we finally started getting some answers. The mysterious Black Rock? It's a ship. (Raise your hand if you saw that coming.) The freaky French lady named Rousseau? Her psyche's messier than her perpetually uncombed hair. What the quartet of castaways found after setting sail on the raft? It just may have cost them their lives.

Of course, the castaways — and maybe some cast members — aren't the only ones who will have one very nerve-racking summer. Viewers who have followed every twist, turn and shocker will have to wait until fall to get an explanation for Lost's oh-no-they-didn't cliff-hanger, which aired May 25. Let's just say we feel your pain.

But TV Guide's got the perfect thing to help ease the withdrawal: exclusive dish from the show's cast and producers about what went on behind the scenes of the explosive final episode and — are you sitting down? — an early sneak peek at Season 2. Read on for the first big reveal, and pick a copy of the May 29 issue of the magazine for the rest.



Finale secret No. 1
Producers resorted to drastic measures to keep details from leaking out. For starters, actors were given only the parts of the script in which they appeared, which meant that the raft riders — Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Harold Perrineau (Michael), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) and Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) — were the only ones to receive the highly anticipated final pages. And even they didn't get those pages until the night before shooting. "I was like, 'I don't know the lines,'" Perrineau remembers telling producers. "'And since it's my job to know the lines, somebody might want to give me a script.'"

Producers were just as paranoid with one another. Whenever they discussed the cliff-hanger, they used a code name: "the bagel." That way, says executive producer Carlton Cuse, "you could talk about the production realities of 'the bagel' or what preceded 'the bagel' without revealing too much." —

For more on Lost, pick up the May 29 issue of TV Guide, on newsstands Thursday. And click here for our interactive Lost atlas, which highlights and explains the show's key locations around the world.

source: http://tvguide.com/tv/coverstory/