Josh Holloway - Josh News and Articles [Discussion Thread] #23: Back in the saddle, folks! - Page 15

***Sulieter*** · 09-03-2014, 02:18 PM

I found an old article which I hadn't seen before. The Star Wars story is cute.

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CLOSE-UP.
Josh Holloway
May 08, 2005|By Kate O'Hare, (copyright) Zap2it.

The hit Wednesday ABC drama "Lost" has rocketed 35-year-old Josh Holloway from obscurity to pinup status in less than one season of the show about plane-crash survivors stranded on an island. Actually, it probably happened in his first brief screen appearance as Southern con man Sawyer.

Series writer and supervising producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach says, "My mother's watching the pilot, and that was the only time in the pilot where she was riveted by it. When Sawyer smokes a cigarette, she turned to me and said, 'Who is that bad man?' "

Turns out that Sawyer, who's alternately charming and infuriating, owes a lot to Harrison Ford's portrayal of lovable smuggler Han Solo from "Star Wars."

"He's a big inspiration for the character," Holloway says. "I used to know all the dialogue in 'Star Wars.' We didn't have a VCR or TV back then, but we had a record player, so our mother bought the record of 'Star Wars' and a little picture book.

"So we'd go through it, listen to the record, so all of my brothers and I can pretty much quote any scene out of 'Star Wars.' We do it when we get together fishing. Someone will just break out in a scene, and the others will play the other part."

Birthplace: California.

Family ties: Second eldest of four boys. In October 2004, Holloway married retail buyer Yessica.

Previous job: Worked several years as a model, which he says was lucrative and fun but not very "fulfilling."

Film creds: "Mi Amigo," "Dr. Benny," "Cold Heart," "Sabretooth."

Josh Holloway - Chicago Tribune

Slipca · 09-05-2014, 01:53 AM

Thank you Julie

I found something too

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Lost
(2004-2010)

How much did we love Lost during its six seasons on the air? Enough to alternately adore and begrudgingly accept wildly intelligent if sometimes convoluted storylines; flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash-sideways; richly conceived characters, excellent casting and, well, that polarizing final episode.

When not filming scenes on Oahu's beaches and forests depicting action on The Island, Lost’s amazing production team made Hawaii a consistently credible stand-in for just about every place in the world but Hawaii. A snow-lined street in Berlin? Actually downtown Honolulu on a muggy fall day. A restaurant with a view of of Niagara Falls? Actually a beachfront restaurant in Waikiki. The list goes on and on.

Another bonus? Spotting the Lost cast around Honolulu doing the kind of mundane stuff we do every day. Seeing Naveen Andrews (Sayid) shopping for cheese at Whole Foods, or Evangeline Lilly (Kate) picking through craft materials at Ben Franklin Crafts? Two of the many cool things about living on The Island for real.

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