The actor who portrayed the hunky bad boy James ‘Sawyer’ Ford in Lost has opened up about his career resurgence after a ‘hard’ seven years away from showbusiness.
Josh Holloway – who appeared at the Duster premiere last week – is currently working on four different projects including the aforementioned HBO series but things have not been easy in his post-Lost career.
When asked by The Hollywood Reporter if this was his career resurgence, he replied: ‘Yeah. It’s interesting. I must have thrown the penny over the wrong shoulder and broke a mirror while I did it, because I had a hard seven years.
‘Just hard — nothing was coming through. I had to focus on my family. I learned piano. I did all sorts of different things.’
After starring as Will Bowman on the series Colony which aired from 2016 to 2018, he has not had very many consistent roles as he has had a few guest starring spots on television, most notably on Yellowstone over 10 episodes from 2020 to 2021.
He continued: ‘I started telling my agents, “Just bring me work, I need to get out of house, it’s ridiculous, I only work for the Holloways now and I need to do something.”
Josh Holloway – who appeared at the Duster premiere last week pictured) – is currently working on four different projects including the aforementioned HBO series but things have not been easy in his post-Lost career
The actor who portrayed the hunky bad boy James ‘Sawyer’ Ford in Lost has opened up about his career resurgence after a ‘hard’ seven years away from showbusiness; he is pictured on Lost
‘They started sending me random scripts. A lot of them that were not good projects that I had to pass on, but some came through.’
He is reuniting with a familiar face in his new project Duster as Lost creator and showrunner JJ Abrams also created this new Max series along with LaToya Morgan.
In it he stars alongside Rachel Hilson as she plays Nina Hayes who is the FBI’s first Black woman agent working to stop a crime syndicate with the assistance of Josh’s character who is a talented getaway driver named Jim Ellis.
The first episode of the series can now be streamed on Max as it also stars Keith David, Sydney Elisabeth, Greg Grunber, Camille Guaty, Corbin Bernsen, Gail O’Grady, and Donal Logue.
Meanwhile, Josh portrayed fan favorite character Sawyer through the entirety of the Lost series as his character was known for his rural Southern accent, selfishness, machismo, and folksy use of oft-abrasive nicknames belied his sophisticated and tender sides as an avid reader and a caring lover.
The American science fiction adventure drama series made its first debut in September 2004 and its sixth, and final, season aired in May 2010, with a total of 121 episodes.
The show follows the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, who each had their own dark secret, as they attempt to survive on a mysterious deserted island in the middle of the ocean after their flight from Sydney to Los Angeles crashed.
However, it’s not just the characters who are hiding things, and the island has its own unknown mysteries too such as underground bunkers, a secret research project called Dharma Initiative and other violent survivors to fight off, terrifyingly known as ‘The Others’.
He is reuniting with a familiar face in his new project Duster (pictured) as Lost creator and showrunner JJ Abrams also created this new Max series along with LaToya Morgan
When asked by The Hollywood Reporter if this was his career resurgence, he (seen in Cannes, France last month) replied: ‘Yeah. It’s interesting. I must have thrown the penny over the wrong shoulder and broke a mirror while I did it, because I had a hard seven years. ‘Just hard — nothing was coming through. I had to focus on my family. I learned piano. I did all sorts of different things’
After starring as Will Bowman on the series Colony which aired from 2016 to 2018, he has not had very many consistent roles as he has had a few guest starring spots on television, most notably on Yellowstone (pictured) over 10 episodes from 2020 to 2021
Josh is seen with his kids Hunter Lee Holloway and Java Kumala Holloway at the premiere last week
As well as having supernatural and science fiction elements, the show featured several romance storylines, especially fugitive Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) who found herself in a love triangle between dishy surgeon Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and Holloway’s character Sawyer.
Lost also had several legendary characters, who soon became fan favorites, such as Jorge Garcia’s character Hurley and wise survival expert, John Locke (Terry O’Quinn), who had previously been in a wheelchair after a broken back but found he was able to walk again on the mysterious island.
Each episode would predominantly feature a flashback, present day and flash-forward sequence for each character, giving fans context as to why they behaved in such a certain way and what dark secret they were hiding.
However, the season six ending left viewers split – with some delighted and others confounded, as fans sparked the theory that all the characters had been dead all along.
Meanwhile, Josh portrayed fan favorite character Sawyer through the entirety of the Lost series as his character was known for his rural Southern accent, selfishness, machismo, and folksy use of oft-abrasive nicknames belied his sophisticated and tender sides as an avid reader and a caring lover
The American science fiction adventure drama series made its first debut in September 2004 and its sixth, and final, season aired in May 2010, with a total of 121 episodes
The show follows the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, who each had their own dark secret, as they attempt to survive on a mysterious deserted island in the middle of the ocean after their flight from Sydney to Los Angeles crashed
However, it’s not just the characters who are hiding things, and the island has its own unknown mysteries too such as underground bunkers, a secret research project called Dharma Initiative and other violent survivors to fight off, terrifyingly known as ‘The Others’
The season six finale revealed that despite all the events on the island being true, the characters’ flash-sideways timeline was in fact a limbo in the afterlife, otherwise known as purgatory.
After meeting each other on the island, each person was able to learn from their survival journey and move on to the afterlife.
One of the last poignant scenes showed all the survivors reunited in church as they all passed on together.
While the final shot mirrored the first episode where character Jack was lying on the sand with his Golden Retriever dog running towards him, he closed his eyes for one last time.
