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ABC’s award wining drama “Lost” returns Wednesday, February 7th. It’s an action packed mystery and adventure that brings out the best and worst in those who are lost. It all started after a plane crashed on a Pacific island. Since then, so many viewers have been hooked.
Actor Dominic Monaghan is one of the stars of the hit show. He was interviewed during First Coast News at Noon on February 6, 2007. Watch the video clip above.
The executive producers of “Lost” will host a survival guide Wednesday, February 7 at 9 p.m. You can get a glimpse into the lives of the survivors. After that, watch ABC’s “Lost” at its new time at 10 p.m. Wednesdays on WJXX ABC25.
Q: Congratulations on getting the role of Merry. I can’t even imagine when you got the first script how overwhelming this must have all been for you. Not only are you making one film but also you are committed to making three! So take me back.
A: It just all started by a call from my agent, as most jobs do. I got a call from my agent saying there is a meeting in London for The Lord of The Rings that is being made by Peter Jackson. So I just kind have said OK, cool, whatever. I went down and met them, and then I was doing a job in France. So I rang my agent and asked him how he thought my audition went and he thought it went well and I just try to forget things. I go into a meeting, try as hard as I can, and then when I leave you just have to forget things. Otherwise they torture you completely. So, I just forgot about it.
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What’s your background in acting?
I’ve been working professionally since I was 18. I came out of Sixth Form College and went straight into youth theatres in Manchester. An agent who saw me in a play took me on and rang me with an offer from the BBC. I worked for four years on ‘Hetty Wainthrop Investigates’ as Geoffrey Shawcross.
In Monsignor Renard you play Etienne Rollinger. Tell us about your character.
He’s a cocky 19-year-old lad, popular with the kids and the leader of a gang who just hang out smoking and drinking. But he is deeply affected by the arrival of the German troops and by Helene, who he wants to get together with. When she expresses interest in a German soldier though, he has a series of confrontations with the occupied forces.
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Dominic Monaghan, star of the hit ABC series Lost, knows that you don’t have to be marooned on a tropical island to encounter wildlife. That’s why Monaghan jumped at the chance to kick off PETA’s latest wildlife campaign with a brand-new print ad shot at a California wildlife rehabilitation center. In the ad, Monaghan is pictured with a raccoon next to the tagline “Share the World”?a plea to peacefully coexist with wildlife.
In an exclusive interview on HelpingAnimals.com, Monaghan tells PETA about everything from what to anticipate this season on Lost to his thoughts on how wild animals like raccoons, squirrels, and opossums suffer from human encroachment.
“The more you get into [nature], the more you realize that it gives you back what you put into it … it’s very rewarding,” says Monaghan, who loves to go surfing and considers himself to be a bit of an expert on trees, plants, insects, and reptiles. “I have learned some of the greatest lessons in life from watching animals, from watching animals just simplistically go work out their problems.”
Every year, animals facing shrinking habitats are poisoned, trapped, shot, or beaten to death as “pests.” In addition to being horrendously cruel, America’s war on wildlife is ineffective: More animals simply move in to replace those who have left. Now PETA?with a little help from Monaghan?is offering humane and effective methods for dealing with human-wildlife conflicts at HelpingAnimals.com.
DOMINIC MONAGHAN plays heroin-addicted rock star Charlie on ABC’s hit series Lost. And, cozied up on the back patio of a Melrose coffee house, the actor reveals his own rock-star side.
While on leave from the Oahu set, Monaghan, 29, is here to talk about tonight’s hallucination-filled episode (9 ET/PT), which flashes back to Charlie’s past and hurls him into an uncertain future. But he also talks about love (with co-star Evangeline Lilly), drugs (Charlie’s habits and his own) and rock ‘n’ roll (well, mostly John Lennon).
His interest in the late Beatle goes deeper than the typical fan’s. Many nights, he dreams of Lennon as his “God figure,” and most days he surfs in the ocean, which he considers his personal Strawberry Fields, “a place of tranquility where I go to forget everything.” His fascination with Lennon started on his fourth birthday, the day Lennon was murdered. Tattooed on his arm is the Lennon lyric: “Living is easy with eyes closed.”
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He plays a druggie castaway on a blockbuster television show.
But in real life, Lost star Dominic Monaghan is a keen environmentalist who bought an Indian mango farm to save it from destruction, and was even upset when his pet spider died last year.
“All these supposed problems that we have are going to pale in insignificance when we all die because of how we treat our planet,” said the 28-year-old actor, who bought the farm in Bangalore, India, in 2003.
“It seems really bizarre that people are hung up on other issues when essentially we’re kind of careening out of control with our world.
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Getting stranded on an inhospitable island with a bunch of nefarious characters and a blood-thirsty beast that lurks in the bushes has turned out to be a good thing for Dominic Monaghan.
The British actor acquired cult fame status by playing the hairy-footed Hobbit Merry Brandybuck in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. And now his smoldering portrayal as tortured rocker Charlie on ABC’s “Lost” (tonight at 8) has positioned him as one of the hit show’s breakout stars.
“It’s great to be in a show that people actually watch,” Monaghan told the Daily News recently.
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No more Mr. Nice Hobbit.
Dominic Monaghan, the beloved Merry Brandybuck in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, stars as Charlie, a one-hit-wonder musician turned drug addict, in “Lost” (tonight at 8 on WCVB, Ch. 5). What the Frodo is going on here?
“I struggled for the past three or four years or so with most of the people internationally knowing me as a very cute, adorable, sweet-hearted, nonthreatening kind of boy,” Monaghan said in a recent telephone interview.
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Dominic Monaghan conquered the big-screen in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and is now grabbing the brass ring on the small screen with ABC’s new drama, “Lost.”
Monaghan plays Charlie, the one-hit rocker on the show about a group of airline crash survivors stranded on an island – which has become one of the few breakout hits of the season. He says he’s enjoying the challenge of playing a character coping with withdrawal from a heroin addiction, but is more intrigued by Charlie’s struggle with issues of faith.
“I was brought up in England in a relatively Roman Catholic faith,” says the 28-year-old Monaghan, who was born in Berlin and later moved to Manchester with his father, a teacher, his mother, a nurse, and his older brother.
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Dominic Monaghan is calling from paradise. Currently residing on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, The Lord of the Rings star is shopping for a birthday present for his mother. An avid surfer, he is enjoying his time on the tropical isle, but this is hardly a vacation. Instead he is starring as Charlie, a washed-up musician who survives a plane crash and must start a new life on a deserted island on ABC’s Lost, one of the fall’s most anticipated television shows. The brainchild of Alias creator J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof (formerly a writer/producer on Crossing Jordan ), Lost features a large ensemble cast and some ongoing mysteries that are sure to keep viewers guessing. Little is initially revealed about Charlie–the bass player in a one-hit-wonder band whose members, he insists, are still together and due for a comeback–and early hints indicate he’s hiding a pretty big secret.
Occasionally during our interview he stops to chat with a passerby who recognizes him from his role as the mischievous Hobbit, Meriadoc “Merry” Brandybuck, from the Rings trilogy, and the actor is always gracious and friendly. He relished his time on the epic and remains close with his co-stars; three of the four hobbits will be reuniting in Hawaii for New Year’s Eve. But he is clearly excited about his new project. Monaghan won the role of Charlie, even though the role was originally conceived for an older actor. “He was supposed to be a has-been rocker whose band had fallen off the map, like, 15 years earlier, but Dominic is 25 years old,” Lindelof told Back Stage West . “So, he came in and read and just brought this great sense of humor to everything, [so] that we just rethought the character and said, ‘Well, what if he wasn’t an ex-rocker, but he was a one-hit wonder, and he just didn’t realize it yet.’”
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