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LOST - Internet Promotional Campaign

Lost News — April 12, 2006 at 6:42 am by docarzt

Some interesting information for those worried about what to do between Season 2 and 3. Taken from lost-forum by Jocko. Here are some casting sides from actor’s access website. Click the link below to find out more.

AMY JENSEN
Early to mid 20s. An attractive, intelligent, resourceful and puckish young woman, Amy Jensen always suspected that a piece of her past was missing - that her single mother never told her the entire truth about her father. With the same inquisitive, yet rebellious spirit that led Amy to excel in her education, she put aside her career aspirations to search for her missing parent full-time…and she will do it with the same rebel ferocity and humor with which she has pursued everything in her life…THIS MAJOR ROLE WOULD RECUR IN SEVERAL EPISODES OF THIS INTERNET CAMPAIGN. THE ACTRESS WOULD NEED TO BE AVAILABLE FOR VARIOUS PERSONAL APPEARANCES FROM JULY THROUGH SEPTEMBER.

THOMAS JACKSON
Early to mid-40s. A child prodigy in the sciences, Thomas Jackson soon learned that he could get as far in the world through Machiavellian diplomacy as with his intellect. Jackson is a friendly, convivial man - the kind of guy who can pour you a cup of coffee while making the argument that mass murder is a good thing… and you might just believe him. Always pleasant and agreeable, Thomas Jackson is a consummate manipulator of people and events - never one to raise his voice or resort to anger, he is quite simply armed with the strength of his conviction and the power of his ideas…which would be fine, if his ideas weren’t absolutely dangerous…ACTOR SHOULD HAVE OR DO BRITISH OR GENERAL WESTERN EUROPEAN ACCENT

FREDERICK DEEDS
50s, will also play older. Frederick Deeds worked his family business into an international conglomerate, becoming wealthy beyond dreams in the process. A driven man, but not one to fall back on his privilege - and the source of his money and power - Deeds is making every attempt to transform his fortune into a philanthropic concern. Guided by his conscience and passion, Deeds’ desire to do what is right often clouds his judgment with terrible consequences…ACTOR SHOULD HAVE OR DO BRITISH OR GENERAL WESTERN EUROPEAN ACCENT

LARRY COOPER
(mid 30’s to early 40’s): A rugged world traveler and confirmed bachelor, Larry Cooper has gone his own way, seeing the length and breadth of the Earth and trying every challenge at least once. He has styled himself as a latter day Ernest Hemingway, traveling light, writing about his experiences, and collecting few attachments along the way… as we catch up to Larry, he has just met the first woman he has ever seen who has made him doubt his lifestyle, and he is a little flummoxed by the entire experience as he wrestles with the question, will he be able to slow down his pilgrim ways for the love of a woman?

Info on the Internet Campaign
This is what Messrs. Lindelof and Cuse said about this "internet campaign" in their podcast of March 28th:

CC: The Hanso foundation website is down for remodeling and when it comes back up it is going to be awesome.
DL: Spectacular.
CC: We are involved in a project which is going to involve the internet that’s going to start in May.
DL: But you’re going to have to watch the show, and not just the show but what happens in between the show,
CC: (between the acts of the show)
DL: …fairly carefully, in order to sort of begin the path on this what we’re calling "an experience."
CC: And this internet experience will actually be launched during one of the shows in May and will be a pathway that will lead to a lot of information about the show that we’re not going to get to on the show, but it’s not just a sort of ancillary…
DL: It’s not behind the scenes stuff either, it’s like….
CC: It’s real mythology.
DL/CC: Cool storytelling.
CC: Which hopefully is going to in some degree satisfy the desire for new material on Lost over the summer, I mean during that period of time when the show is down before we start the next season, we’re actually going to be telling some Lost stories.