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Lost accused of having a racist, toxic workplace

posted 2 years ago by TMC-4 (20483)
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https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/lost-showrunners-racism-toxic-writers-room-damon-lindelof-1235628095/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CLost%E2%80%9D%20showrunners%20Damon%20Lindelof%20and,published%20on%20Vanity%20Fair's%20website.

“Lost” showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse confront several accusations of racism, toxicity and more that allegedly occurred during the making of the ABC hit series in Maureen Ryan's new book, “Burn It Down,” an excerpt of which has been published on Vanity Fair's website.

[–] WhereIsRent (1092) 2 years ago

Damon Lindelof allegedly bragging about firing Harold but then deciding to bring him back for season 4 doesn’t make much sense to me.

They said at the time they had to write Walt off the show because the actor was aging too quickly as only months had passed in the show’s timeline.

I don’t know, I don’t get these books, it just seems like they’d exaggerate so much just to sell more copies (like Prince Harry’s book.) what’s Lindelof gonna say exactly ‘Yes it’s all true and I should be cancelled.’

[–] BillySlater (4281) a year ago

Perrineau comes off as extremely whiny if those quotes are true. Michael got a huge character arc in season 2 considering he was one of the worst characters. Also, if Lindelof were racist, they never would have brought in Mr Eko and wanted to keep him. He was killed off because the actor wanted to leave.

[–] darkpast (9021) 2 years ago

i think it says more about ABC/Disney , how these were just diversity hires and checkboxes , they don't really care about diversity

[–] Shannon82 (58) 2 years ago

It's the 21st century. Do you honestly think anyone involved in the creation and execution of the show was hung up on racism? They didn't hire an actor to check a diversity box. They hired actors to play a character.

[–] leader (2102) a year ago

If that were true, Jin and Sun would not have been included. They wanted to make the show multicultular.

[–] Shannon82 (58) a year ago

Multicultural has nothing to do with racism. Sun and Jin were from Korea, by the way. This is an international flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. People from various countries were on board departing from and arriving to major international airports. They hired extraordinary actors to play extraordinary characters. I'm assuming you have never been on an international flight. There are people from all over the world on them.

[–] BillySlater (4281) 6 months ago

In the making of videos, Lindelof says the casting call was open (to being diverse) because it was an international flight. They did not have a character written for Sun but since they were impressed by her as an actress, they wrote her role in. The same thing happened with Hurley.

[–] Shannon82 (58) 2 years ago

I find the recent hit pieces on LOST to be not so coincidentally timed to promote the horrendous conclusion of the awful Manifest that thinks it better than LOST.

[–] Boromir (10126) a year ago

For a television series that has been in existence for such an extended period, If these are the secrets, it doesn't truly appear to be an unpleasant place to work.