Harold Perrineau not happy with his 'Lost' exit
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Jin’s fate may be up in the air, but “Lost” fans know that one castaway definitely went bye-bye when the freighter went boom in Thursday’s season finale: Michael.
The sad dad tried to make up for killing Ana-Lucia and Libby by helping the 815ers as Ben’s spy on the boat, and he did help (most of) them in the end. Michael’s idea to freeze the battery connected to the explosives worked long enough to allow the getaway of the Oceanic 6 (plus, Desmond and Frank) in the chopper.
Unfortunately, he got the “you can die now” call from Christian Shephard, too.
But having Michael finally killed off “Lost” isn’t what’s eating at actor Harold Perrineau (though I’m guessing that he’s not happy about losing that regular paycheck).
In an exit interview with TV Guide, Perrineau says he’s upset that the writers got rid of Michael before he was able to reunite with Walt, his estranged son (and fellow crash survivor).
Perrineau even hinted that the way the show treated the storyline of Michael and Walt was racist, pointing out that the characters of Sayid and Nadia (who are Iraqi) and Desmond and Penny (both white and from the U.K.) were allowed to get together at the end of the season.
Listen, if I’m being really candid, there are all these questions about how they respond to black people on the show. Sayid gets to meet Nadia again, and Desmond and Penny hook up again, but a little black boy and his father hooking up, that wasn’t interesting? Instead, Walt just winds up being another fatherless child. It plays into a really big, weird stereotype and, being a black person myself, that wasn’t so interesting.
Yikes.
TV Guide then asked Perrineau if he’d ever return to the show: After all, dead characters have a habit of popping up. The actor replied that he’d need to know what was happening with his story before he agreed.
Something tells me that the producers won’t be beating down Perrineau’s door after that outburst.
Then again, Perrineau’s interview hasn’t seemed to bother ABC. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news today that he’ll join the pilot of a new ABC dramedy, “The Unusuals.” He’ll play a cop who’s so worried that he’ll die, he always wears his bullet-proof vest.
So maybe, just maybe, there will be room for that Michael-Walt reunion. Even if it’s in the afterlife.
UPDATE: Perrineau’s TV Guide interview caught the attention of Entertainment Weekly, which got him to “clarify” his previous comments. He didn’t retract a single word, though he seemed more upbeat about the possibility of returning to the show in the future.
(Photos courtesy of ABC)
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