Where he’ll use them next remains as mysterious as the island. “I’m the same out-of-work actor I was before the show started,” he laughs. “There’s almost nothing I like better than working. So as soon as some door opens or I can knock one open that’s appealing to me, I’ll be back to work.”
Until then, O’Quinn’s readied a simple response about any unanswered Lost conundrums. “I’ve never obsessed over it, and I’m not now. I’m moving on—you should, too.”
Julianna Margulies
“The second time around is sweeter,” says Julianna Margulies, reveling in the success of The Good Wife. For her first hit, ER, “I was just in a whirlwind and couldn’t see the forest through the trees. Now I’m able to step back and watch it, as opposed to feeling like I’m being thrown around. I didn’t know what I stepped in the first time around.”
Despite snaring high-profile first-season awards, including a Golden Globe, Margulies was challenged by wronged political wife Alicia Florrick. “I’m much more of a reactionary person,” she says. “I found her constant reserve very difficult. She holds things back and doesn’t wear her emotions on her sleeve as best she can. It’s that WASP mentality of, You do not show your emotions in public. I’m a Jew, so I show my emotions!”
She marvels at fans’ passionate arguments over whether Alicia should choose a new love or give her philandering husband a second chance. Margulies even got opinions while on a recent flight. “All the stewardesses said, ‘Stay with the husband!’ I find that shocking from a female point of view, because he did cheat on her and put her through public humiliation. People have very invested opinions about the character.”
Before acting won her over in college, Margulies considered a legal career like her character’s, and she recognizes the professions’ similarities. “The good litigators are good because they know how to act,” she says. Yet this actress is happy to stick to a script. “I could never be a lawyer. There’s just too much small print—I wouldn’t have the focus for it!”
