A couple more Ben Linus interviews:
Flagler Magazine with old Ben:
For a fan of ABC’s “Lost,” it’s hard not to get a chill when the phone rings and it’s “Lost” baddie Benjamin Linus on the other end. But when the chill wears off after a few seconds you realize that not only is Michael Emerson not the murderous, manipulative character he plays on television, he’s actually very polite and quite likeable.
Q: How familiar were you with “Lost” before you were cast in it? I was fairly familiar with it. I mean the fanatic in our house was my wife (Carrie Preston). She never missed an episode. I’d sort of catch some while she watched and I was doing dishes or something. Q: And she wound up playing your character’s mother in your flashback episode. That was kooky. It’s great to have your spouse on the set with you, although we didn’t have any scenes together, and now she’s a bona fide member of the “Lost” family. And I’m thinking maybe that’s not the last time we see her. Something has to be revisited there in Ben’s childhood. Q: What lengths do producers go to prevent spoilers on a show like “Lost”? Sometimes they go to crazy lengths. The script in last season’s finale had a secret scene. There usually is at the end of the season. But they went a step better last year. When they filmed the secret scene, they filmed three different versions of a moment in it so that even the people that were on the set didn’t know how the season would end.
Continue Reading at Flagler Magazine
Edmonton Sun with young Ben:
The young Ben initially didn't know anything about the adult Ben.
But that was a good thing.
"I'm not supposed to be like Ben yet," said 13-year-old Sterling Beaumon, who plays the young Benjamin Linus in Lost.
"Ben is not Ben yet."
Hmmm, good point.
Lost airs Wednesdays on A and ABC, and starting this week, Beaumon will appear in a string of episodes as the question of "how Ben became Ben" gets answered.
"That's one of the things we're going to find out," Beaumon said.
The adult Ben, of course, is one of the main villains on Lost. He is played in delightfully creepy fashion by Michael Emerson.
And even if the young Ben isn't necessarily supposed to be like the adult Ben yet, there's something about Beaumon's portrayal that brings Emerson's portrayal to mind. It isn't so over-the-top that it's cartoonish, but it's subtle and it's there.
"The first time I did it, everyone kept saying, 'Oh, he's so much like Ben,' " recalled Beaumon, who first played the young Ben in a single Lost episode in 2007. "But I really didn't know how to do Ben."
Chalk it up to astute casting, we suppose.
Beaumon already has a lengthy acting resume. His TV appearances have included spots on ER, Bones, House, Heroes, Cold Case and Scrubs. And later this year, Beaumon's voice will be among the voices propelling the animated feature film Astro Boy (alongside the voices of Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas and Freddie Highmore, among others).
A native of San Diego, Beaumon was a competitive figure skater when he was little more than a toddler. He's still obsessed with ice, but now hockey is his passion.
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