{"id":2616,"date":"2011-05-01T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/life-after-lost-exclusive-interview-with-the-smoke-monster\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T22:05:00","slug":"life-after-lost-exclusive-interview-with-the-smoke-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/life-after-lost-exclusive-interview-with-the-smoke-monster.html","title":{"rendered":"Life After LOST: Exclusive Interview with the Smoke Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"\"\"<\/a>Lost fans, if you\u2019ve been wondering what the smoke monster has been working on since LOST finished, you may have actually seen him in a couple of recent movies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, I have to admit, I was disappointed,\u201d said the infamous smoke monster, who prefers \u201cSmokey\u201d or even \u201cthe smoke monster\u201d\u00a0to \u201cJacob\u2019s nameless brother.\u201d Having been promised a prominent role in The Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice<\/a>, black smoke ended up being needed only in one scene for a single spell. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Matters improved, however, when Smokey landed a role in The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader<\/a>, the latest in the Narnia films based on C. S. Lewis\u2019 novels. \u201cThe screenwriter wrote the part just for me. There was no green mist in Lewis\u2019 novel, but after seeing me audition for the part of Eustace, the director saw I had even better potential to be an ominous villain beyond anything C. S. Lewis\u2019 mid-20th-century imagination could offer 21st century viewers,\u201d Smokey said with a hint of pride, before briefly taking on the appearance of the White Witch.<\/p>\n

When asked if he had any regrets on how his career has progressed thus far, Smokey admitted to feeling a bit foolish having to wear green makeup for the part in the recent Narnia film, fearing that some fans might not have recognized him, much as happened to Ray Park in his role as Darth Maul, and Rowan Atkinson when he played the Wicked Witch of the West in the original Wizard of Oz<\/a>\"\" movie.<\/p>\n

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Lost fans, if you\u2019ve been wondering what the smoke monster has been working on since LOST finished, you may have actually seen him in a couple of recent movies. \u201cAt first, I have to admit, I was disappointed,\u201d said the infamous smoke monster, who prefers \u201cSmokey\u201d or even \u201cthe smoke monster\u201d\u00a0to \u201cJacob\u2019s nameless brother.\u201d Having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nLife After LOST: Exclusive Interview with the Smoke Monster<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lost fans, if you've been wondering what the smoke monster has been working on since LOST finished, you may have actually seen him in a couple of recent\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/life-after-lost-exclusive-interview-with-the-smoke-monster.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Life After LOST: Exclusive Interview with the Smoke Monster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lost fans, if you've been wondering what the smoke monster has been working on since LOST finished, you may have actually seen him in a couple of recent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/life-after-lost-exclusive-interview-with-the-smoke-monster.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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