{"id":1906555,"date":"2026-04-28T09:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1906555"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:59:55","slug":"lost-actor-harold-perrineau-says-former-co-star-still-wont-talk-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1906555","title":{"rendered":"Lost Actor Harold Perrineau Says Former Co-Star Still Won’t Talk to Him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lost<\/a> actor Harold Perrineau has revealed the stunning circumstances behind his character Michael’s most controversial scene \u2014 and said that one of the actresses involved still won’t speak to him now, 20 years later. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The scene in question is, of course, Michael’s initial exit from the series in Season 2 episode Two for the Road, which sees the character shoot and kill Ana-Lucia (played by Michelle Rodriguez) and Libby (Cynthia Watros), two other series regulars who had only joined the cast that season. <\/p>\n

It’s a shocking moment that fans have long debated, and now, Perrineau has claimed he was the only actor on set that day who knew what was going to happen ahead of time. In other words, Rodriguez and Watros were told how they were being written off the show just moments before their final scene was shot.<\/p>\n

While Perrineau refused to say which of the two actresses would no longer speak to him, he did confirm the star still felt “wildly betrayed” by what had happened, two decades on.<\/p>\n

“So by that point, Michael had been off for awhile,” Perrineau told The Independent<\/a>. “They rang me, up and said, ‘He’s coming back and here’s what he’s gonna do. And we’re not telling anybody until the day we shoot it.’ I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’<\/p>\n

“This is really weird to say, but one of the actresses to this day still doesn’t talk to me,” he continued. “I didn’t write it! I’m doing what you\u2019re doing \u2014 I’m doing my job!'”<\/p>\n

It’s a brutal moment for all manner of reasons, not least because audiences were still warming to both Ana-Lucia (whose reception had initially been rocky) and Libby (who had been given little to do, other than the start of a sweet, blossoming romance with Hurley). The exit was also controversial for Michael, who murders two of his fellow castaways in order to secure a safe departure from the island with his son.<\/p>\n