Lost’s Hurley and Carlton Cuse are ready for the fan backlash

Jorge Garcia and Carlton Cuse took a few moments to talk about the finale with us, and how they both were choked up by what happens. Plus, DVD finale secrets and readying for the inevitable fan backlash.

While mulling through the amazing Lost prop auction in NYC's Vilcek Foundation, and debating how much rent money could we go with out to get our hands on Daniel Faraday's journal, we got the opportunity to chat up Lost's own Hurley, Jorge Garcia and executive producer, Carlton Cruse. After Hurley explained that he wasn't too upset that he wasn't picked to be the next Jacob — "Nah" was the actual word Garcia used — and confiding that the only things he allegedly took home from the Lost set were fruit roll-up wrappers and his watercolor paintings, we got talking about the finale, and the inevitable fan backlash, such is the way with most genre shows.

What is the one thing you can't wait for everyone to see on the DVDs that they didn't show in the series?

Jorge Garcia: I can't talk about the one thing that I can't wait. Because I don't know if it's something that they are doing yet. However, they are doing a bit on the writing of the finale and they came to my house to watch me read it. There's a moment where you see me get very emotional, that I'm curious to see it myself.

Was it emotional for you just being a part of the cast for so long [and reading the finale] or was it emotional for you because you were going through what your character was going through?

Jorge Garcia: Um, I would give it a mix of both.

Working on a genre show, no matter what, there's going to be backlash. Are you ready for the backlash at the end, either because people are upset that it's over or because they're angry with the way it ended?

Jorge Garcia: I'm ready for it. It was kind of great, in a sense, to have the "Across The Sea" episode come out, to kind of give us a little test run on that. And so, I think I'm ready for it. We know what's going to happen, just because you can't have this level of passion for a show without disappointing people when you make a bold choice. So it's going to happen. And I'm sure there will be people that will love the ending as well, so that will help make up for it.

Are you done being the "voice of the viewer" now, or will you miss that role?

Jorge Garcia: There's a lot of aspects of the part that I'm going to miss. This was definitely a dream role for me. And I didn't even know that going in, how great the part was going to evolve. So yeah, there's definitely going to be a transition. There's going to be kind of a moment where I'm going to have to put Hurley to bed for good. But it hasn't quite happened yet.

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