LOST Magazine #23

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Interview with Jeremy Davies (Daniel Faraday)

The Constant was a key episode in revealing the importance of Daniel Faraday to the time travel mythology of the series. What were your thoughts about that episode?

Jeremy Davies: I thought it was a remarkably well-written and brilliantly conceived story. I was quite knocked out by it on a lot of levels. Not only in what they were concentrating on specifically in the episode, but the tapestry of getting from point 'A' in the first season to where we were prepared to take this next leap. It's remarkable storytelling. Again, what I was excited about is that it was leading the audience to some very big ideas -- some very big, god-like ideas. You take a leap and lose the ability to describe things in a concentrated way and develop a language that has more to do with the territories of spirituality and complex emotion, higher intuition, and ESP, and then tie it all into these incredible leaps of science. I was also impressed that the way they were pulling it off wasn't junk science. If you read up on theories of time travel, they aren't just throwing together some junk science to move the plot forward. It's very exciting.

From that episode on, Faraday becomes a linchpin character in terms of how the final story will play out. Was that nerve-wracking in any way -- that sense of responsibility?

I am so aware that the odds of getting anywhere in this business are comparable to interplanetary lottery odds. There is so much competition in this business and brutality. I have so many friends who just never got the roll of the dice right or got an agent. I've never lost sight of that, so to get the opportunity to have a filmmaker invite me to steal some genius over their shoulder is a great privilege. For me to accelerate from last season to this [point], and for them to place such responsibility on my shoulders is a remarkable privilege. It's been surreal and sublime. I'm very grateful they placed so much trust in me.

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