Naveen Andrews as "Sayid"
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Posted on 02/18/2005 9:35:57 AM PST by k2blader
Sexy Lost star enjoys success
HOLLYWOOD -- Sometimes it's good to be lost. Just ask Naveen Andrews, who plays Sayid, the former Iraqi intelligence officer who is stranded with the other crash survivors on the hit TV series Lost.
"I don't think anybody thought we'd be this popular," says Andrews about the show that has amassed the biggest cult following since The X-Files.
Andrews insists he's as much in the dark about what's really going on in Lost as the audiences are.
"I've heard all the rumours including the one that we're in purgatory," he says, adding "which is a great idea. Still, I don't think it's the idea that the creators have."
Andrews says he finds Lost a bit like "that movie Jacob's Ladder, in that it's just mind-blowing.
"Of course there's a vast plan. All those gems like the polar bear and all the strange spiritual clues will all be pulled together to end the show, whenever that might be."
What intrigues and satisfies Andrews even more than the guessing games fans play is the fact the show has turned him into a sex symbol.
"I prefer to think it's Sayid, not Naveen, who's sexy but, frankly, it's flattering to be perceived in a sexy way.
"What's truly exciting is that people are finding someone who is not white sexy and I'm all for that."
Andrews's smouldering appeal is also at the heart of his character in the Bollywood musical Bride and Prejudice that opens Feb. 25.
In this high-spirited musical spoof of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Andrews, 35, plays a wealthy British industrialist who finds and briefly loses true love with a poor Indian girl.
Andrews is a single father with a 13-year-old son.
The boy's mother, Geraldine Feakins, was Andrews's drama teacher. The pair caused quite a scandal when, at 16, he moved in with her.
"I was an angry, rebellious kid with equally angry parents. I did not have Jaisal until I was 22.
"Fortunately he is nothing like I was. I'm lucky to be alive, I had so much anger to work through."
Now that's really being lost.
IF YOU WATCH
What: Lost
When: Tonight, 8 p.m. [Wednesday]
Where: ABC
That show rocks.
He's my favorite character too. That's m'dawg.
I like the big fat guy, too. He's got a good heart and I think he's a good guy.
GREAT show! Can't wait to see next week what becomes of the one dude's raft that he's building....
Bones
Thanks for posting on this lonely thread! :-D
It's hard for me to pick a favorite character... they're all really interesting... but I guess it'd have to be Locke.
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