Lost's Jorge Garcia on His Big Episode and the 'Heavy' Moment Yet to Come

During the last few years, a lot of characters died, so congratulations to surviving all six seasons.

Knock on wood!

There were some characters, though, who fans thought were pretty much safe for the whole run of the series. Did you ever feel like Hurley was in real danger?

It was great that the fans dug Hurley so much that they felt that way, but I do feel that this show only really works when everybody is in danger. You never were safe. Whenever you got a phone call from Damon and Carlton's assistant saying, "They will be calling you at this time," that was always kind of a nervous phone call to get.

And then they'd just be calling to say, "We love you in the dailies! Keep it up!"

[Laughs] Exactly! All the news can come in that way. If it comes a few days before the script comes out, it can make you nervous.

Over these six years, what was the most challenging moment you were asked to play?

I've got a pretty hard moment in the finale.

Is it physically hard or emotionally hard?

It's emotionally hard. Perhaps my heaviest moment ever.

Have you wrapped the finale yet?

No, we're still shooting. Right now, I think we're going until the 23rd or the 24th, and I think that'll be the real ending.

Have Damon and Carlton been on set for it, now that there's no more episodes to break and write?

They have been, twice this past week. It's kind of a thing that happens at the end of the season. A lot of times, they'll come out and tell us what happens in the secret scenes that we don't get in our scripts. We have our scripts for the finale missing the final act, and when you're with them, they'll pull you aside and say, "OK, here's what happens in the final act."

So they just tell you to reserve that day and you won't know what you'll be doing until the last minute?

I have a scene that I'm shooting tomorrow that I got the pages for yesterday. It was great because I knew I had that scene for a week and I hadn't gotten the script for it, and then I was in the makeup trailer and I saw that somebody in the makeup department had left the scene there. I snatched it and read it and then when I got my script, I saw on the last page it said, "This page is only for producers, director, and actors in the scene to read." The scene actually continued past what I'd read in someone else's copy, and it was kind of fun to be in the know that time, because I haven't ever been in a secret scene before.

Your costar Daniel Dae K
im just shot a new pilot, I know some other actors are taking a little time off. Have you decided what your next move will be?

Nope, not yet. There's people who are looking to see what their next thing might be, but I'm not in a huge rush to take whatever's being offered at the moment. Stuff that seems interesting, I'm definitely submitting myself for, so we'll see. I'm fine taking my time with it.

You didn't often take a project during your hiatus. Is having that free time important to you?

I've had a lot of fun during the hiatuses doing international press, because I've gotten to see a lot of parts of the world. I'm definitely able to fill my time, should I not be working. It could go either way for me.

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