Written Interview: Damon Lindelof

A lengthy feature on Damon Lindelof (“Lost,” Prometheus, World War Z) in the Hollywood Reporter. Here is an excerpt in which Lindelof discusses one connection he had with the TV series “Lost”:

Compounding it all was that Lindelof still was reeling from the loss of his father — an atheist — who died a year before Lost began. “When he died, it was a profound spiritual experience for me,” says Lindelof, who was raised Jewish but let his faith atrophy as he got older. “When you don’t have the religious institution to fall back on, you don’t get to sit shiva, you don’t get the funeral at the church. Every time someone would say to me, ‘He’s in a better place, now,’ I would have to say, ‘Well, he didn’t think so.’

“I wanted to believe that he was in a better place, so I channeled a lot of those feelings into Jack Shephard, who was basically flying back from Australia with the casket of his dead father and was struggling with the same idea of wanting to embrace a system by which he could find comfort. But if you had asked me, in 2004, was I grieving my father? I would’ve said, ‘He died a year and a half ago, I’m bummed and I miss him, but no.’ But I was.”

For the rest of the article, go here.