Actress Sonya Walger got a taste of what it's like being on a mythology- heavy show when she graced television screens as Penelope Widmore on ABC's LOST. Walger's current television vehicle, FlashForward, was recently picked up for a full season, and is also a series filled with several twists and turns.
In an interview with TVGuide.com, Walger discusses LOST and FlashForward.
Here's a few excerpts:
TVGuide.com: All right, when are you returning to LOST?
Sonya Walger: No idea. Not a clue. I don't even know if I'm in the last season.
TVGuide.com: Were you nervous about joining another mythology-heavy show?
Walger: No, not at all. It's funny, I didn't even think of Lost when I read that script. It sounds bizarre or naïve, but I really didn't. I read the script and I was so excited by the writing and by this character, by this woman who is complicated and says 'I hate you' to her husband when she means 'I love you.' She's a professional and a surgeon and a mother. I didn't see any similarities to LOST. I honestly still don't. I see them as big shows that have one big exciting event, the catalyst that gets it all going with an ensemble cast. I see that, but after that they just part ways. There isn't a mythology to FlashForward in the same way. There's not codes to decipher ... There's not islands moving and polar bears and smoke monsters, that's not in our show ... yet anyway.
TVGuide.com: Did you ever work with Dominic Monaghan on LOST?
Walger: This is the joke of me being a part of LOST, I haven't met three-quarters of that cast. I'm not kidding. I would be as star-struck as you would be if I met Matthew Fox. I actually only met Dominic on a photo shoot for FlashForward — that was the first time we met. He comes into play in quite a significant way in this show. I can't really tell you anymore than that. He's a good part of it.
TVGuide.com: We haven't seen all of Olivia's flash-forward. What can you tease about what we haven't seen?
Walger: In the flash-forward, the bit that you have seen is that Lloyd [Jack Davenport] gets up from the bed and gets a text message from someone. The person he gets a text message from is very, very unexpected.
TVGuide.com: Give us a nice tease for what's coming up for Olivia.
Walger: She's going to be forced quite soon to deal with whether or not you can change the future. She keeps being reminded — evidence keeps being presented all around her — that you can't change it. Every time she thinks she's seen the last of Lloyd and that she's managed to avoid it, he keeps coming back.
FlashForward airs Thursdays @ 8pm on ABC.
~Papi Chulo~
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