Lost - What Happened to Mr. Eko (Paley Center Interview)

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13 жыл бұрын

LOST Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse talk about what happened with Mr. Eko, and the process they go through working with actors who have opinions and change over the years.
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@dreadrath 4 жыл бұрын

If Eko had survived, he might've helped prevent Locke's own sad fate. They were certainly on similar paths.

@darthkahn45 Жыл бұрын

Dunno if it would have been a little on the nose but Adewale playing the MIB and changing his accent for it would have been so good! He was a good goodie but he would have made a legendary villain.

@TheMyAlchemista 8 жыл бұрын

Too bad Mr Ekko is one of the most interesting caracters

@alucard2010 4 жыл бұрын

Locke was!!!

@KevinOoviedo13 3 жыл бұрын

unicornicopia weird shit nope eko was loved eko rlly didnt want him to go !

@JessBisme123 10 жыл бұрын

I was so disappointed when Eko died... I really liked his character. I didn't know they killed him because the actor wanted to leave the show. Why would he want to leave? It was a great show!

@TheEpic22 9 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure His parents died

@hermannkateri2120 9 жыл бұрын

TheEpic22 Sometimes personal matters are more important than one's career or they're just too distracting to keep maintaining the same level of acting.

@hermannkateri2120 9 жыл бұрын

I definitely thought that his character was one of the better parts of the show.

@GioSimmerOficial 6 жыл бұрын

His parents died, he hated living in Hawaii, he also got a DUI over there... it was too much happening at once.

@blogtips3074 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheEpic22 Oh what a shame.

@Daggerfall40 11 жыл бұрын

How can you not like Mr. Eko? He was on the same badass level as Locke, both men of faith and both in touch with the Island. The 23rd Psalm was was one of my personal favorite episodes and is probably top 3 character centric episodes next to Walkabout and The Long Con.

@gabrielmenezes1361 2 жыл бұрын

You forgot about The Constant episode

@Damon242 12 жыл бұрын

That would have been the end-game. Like when MIB tried to manipulate Richard, using his faith, in order to get him to kill Jacob (ref. 'Ab Aeterno'), he tried to manipulate Eko, using his faith, and shape him into killing Jacob. When the monster executes his plan with Eko in 'The Cost of Living', only to discover that Eko wants to live with his sins rather than redeem them (and therefore can't be manipulated as such), MIB kills him out of frustration.

@didntknoicouldchangethis 9 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable that he was written off by choice! I found his story line to b interesting, and different from everyone else on LOST, and would have liked to know more about him...his character was so strange, and brutish, yet gentle, allowing Ana-Lucia to lead the tailies till the very end, when he tossed Sawyer over his shoulder(which is crazy, since Sawyer is one big hunk of man!), and heads to camp...

@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond 8 жыл бұрын

By choice do you mean the actors choice to leave the show? forcing the writers to kill his story

@Valoelify 6 жыл бұрын

+Katie Kennington-Williams Huh? I thought they just said that the actor who played Eko didn't want to be on the show anymore, thus they had to kill him off. They were left with no choice. A shame he wanted to leave the best show in the world...

@vanesibolland8365 5 жыл бұрын

His parents died at the time he was shooting, plus a couple things more, so he decided to come back an be centered in his personal life

@adewaleakinnuoye-agbaje1398 2 жыл бұрын

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@bummbumm7474 6 жыл бұрын

The smoke Monster manipulate Eko and Locke. The smoke thing appeared as Yemi to Eko to manipulate him. And finally in Season 3 Episode 5 Eko regocnize that this was not his brother. He said to him who are you. But it was too late.

@blogtips3074 5 жыл бұрын

That's why smokey finished him. Now it makes much more sense!

@oshanepatterson5452 4 жыл бұрын

SEO Savers Yeah, his brother would’ve done that.

@pascalsinger4514 3 жыл бұрын

But why did the Smoke Monster waited so long until starting killing the candidates. I mean we see him attacking survivors in the first seasons. What was the reason for that? I mean most times they survived that, but why did he attacked randomly. And why did he helped sometimes, for Example Jack to find water. And then he attacked them, for Example Kate and Juliet. I mean at the end (Season 6) he had exactly plans and before that, at that time we didn't know him, he did things so randomly, like he had no plan.

@MrGreaves 3 жыл бұрын

Pascal Singer I feel like his attacks were more so scare tactics. Although idk. Maybe he wanted to dispose of everyone that couldn’t have helped him so his attacks were really to single some people out, and maybe he helped jack because he needed jack in his final plan, etc. We’ll never know

@masterofdragons82 3 жыл бұрын

He didn't manipulate anyone. Maybe eko, I'm not going to have any opinions on that because I don't care. But not Locke. While it's true it wasn't his brother, he only appeared to locke as his brother only once. That's all.

@zi_yeah 12 жыл бұрын

I can definitely seeing Eko playing a major role in the ending. Especially considering how close to religious the show had become. It would've been awesome. Anyway, Adewale's loss! But I didn't know he didn't necessarily want to be on the show; I just heard that he couldn't stay in Hawaii.

@Dimyan93 11 жыл бұрын

He was also have family troubles at the time, give the guy a break, more important things in life then a tv show

@CrappyQualityWarfare 11 жыл бұрын

If he wouldn't been killed off and would have stayed on the show to the end, i think Mr Echo would have made a great Jacob instead of Hugo. Tho Hugo was great.

@joshhunt4146 4 жыл бұрын

I think Eko could have taken Lockes storyline towards the end with him being the man in black

@mattd9881 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Eko stayed, if Ilana's actress played Ana Lucia instead, & if Walt didn't age as quick as he did.

@MatiZ815 3 жыл бұрын

I never understood why Walt didn't come back. Yeah, the actor grew up but they had a 3 years time jump. They could bring him back. And they did but just for few cameos.

@masterofdragons82 3 жыл бұрын

@@MatiZ815 Nah, it was probably too late for that

@kingfadal4711 2 жыл бұрын

Hell nah Liked Ana Lucia way more than ilana Ana Lucia was annoying in a more annoying way Ilana was quietly annoying What’s the point

@manewland1 11 жыл бұрын

I read that both his parents died, prompting his desire to return home to England. If true, that makes his decision a little more understandable.

@abjuron 13 жыл бұрын

This is a question I have wanted answered for YEARS. This is as close as I can get to an acceptable answer, I imagine. Good post, as always, Paley Center.

@erabbani 11 жыл бұрын

I can't watch any of these without constantly opening up more KZfaq tabs and rewatching all the scenes they keep bringing up.

@adewaleakinnuoye-agbaje1398 2 жыл бұрын

@dirtyworks13 12 жыл бұрын

I liked Echo. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is a very good actor, he plays the Ultimate bad ass and the ultimate good guy. He was great as Simon Adebisi in OZ!

@19Wylds95 11 жыл бұрын

his mother and father died while they were filming so he went home to spend time with his family and he had to be killed off

@thorfinnoars1443 3 жыл бұрын

He also hated Hawaii 😂😂 and that's where the show was being filmed. I dont blame him, he was there for way longer than most people who go to vacation, it looked hot and humid all the time and he grew up in London where it's almost the opposite of that

@teresah.6696 8 жыл бұрын

The actor that played Ecko, if you noticed, he was in alot of movies right around the time he left the show and now he's been very busy so I'm guessing it was about getting better work, receiving movie scripts and more money.....also alot of actors don't want the daily 12-14 hour day tv schedule.

@Romans8-9 3 жыл бұрын

He didn't like living in Hawaii.

@adewaleakinnuoye-agbaje1398 2 жыл бұрын

@IMBAjaphix 11 жыл бұрын

One of the very finest actors on Lost, if not the finest! Japhix 2013

@Tehui1974 12 жыл бұрын

I was pissed that Eko had to die. I think Lost would have been better if that character went a bit longer into the series.

@Dante3025 12 жыл бұрын

So I just watched Season Ep 5. they killed of my favourite character. R.I.P Mr. Eko

@wanderer4568 2 жыл бұрын

Mr Eko was the best character never liked the show as much after he left

@chocoholicsue Ай бұрын

I loved Eko. So sad when he died. Sorry he didn't want to stay.

@benja303 7 жыл бұрын

I read that he didn't like living in Hawaii so that's why he left the show

@vanesibolland8365 5 жыл бұрын

benja303 Plus someone from his family died while he was shooting

@Damon242 12 жыл бұрын

Little revelations like that are neat. Kind of like with "Christian" leading Jack off of a cliff in 'White Rabbit', you can parallel that with "Dave" (linked with Libby's deceased husband Dave, and Hurley's ability to see the dead, his experiences in the mental hospital, etc) trying to convince Hurley to jump off of a cliff in 'Dave'. A lot of these are only discovered while rewatching the series, after having seen season 6.

@WormTyrant 11 жыл бұрын

What happened to Eko ? Well the actor that played him wanted out, so the producers had to kill him off so they chose the black smoke monster to do it. And it was a pretty cool episode. Totally unexpected.

@RY-fe3rt 3 күн бұрын

You shouldn't have taken out your frustrations about Adewale leaving on Eko. His death was unjustifiably brutal. We have to go back, JJ, to reshoot Eko's exit if nothing else. 😁✊

@robertparks7233 Жыл бұрын

As strange as this sounds Hawaii,one of the most beautiful places in the world to live.Many actors,male,female,felt isolated,they never got to go home.Be with family,were they grew up as a child,you would be surprised how many actors still have homes in there original berth place

@chipdouglas5560 4 жыл бұрын

Eko's storyline became Desmond s

@kingfadal4711 2 жыл бұрын

If he had a death in the family Damon phrasing it like that “he didn’t wanna be in the show anymore” Is just weird bro just say he had personal matters

@supermilkguy 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was just a death in the family. If it was only that, they probably would have let him leave for a while to take care of things, and then come back.

@BaseBallerBHS11 10 жыл бұрын

Is this Paul Scheer asking questions?

@YeshuasDisciple 12 жыл бұрын

def agree

@williamyoung369 3 жыл бұрын

The way the writers killed his character off in the show, I didn't get. A big black smokey cloud tossing him around? Maybe I'll get it later, I'm still watching LOST. Excellent acting on his part.

@tech-no-logictech9743 Жыл бұрын

I think with a character like Eko it might be better to recast instead of changing your plans. Of course it's hard to do but if done right, fans will accept it. In a best case scenario the fandom celebrates both actors.

@SomeNiceMovies 4 жыл бұрын

2:13 Help me out, what is he saying? exists because Eko died

@u.salomao9658 3 жыл бұрын

I guess 'Frogurt' (Neil character)

@nathan2338 11 жыл бұрын

"You know"

@adelaidemarie 9 жыл бұрын

I wonder why he didn't want to be on the show anymore.

@jamespallord6604 8 жыл бұрын

+Adelaide Marie Who was the person they mentioned at the end of the video 2:12

@syndawg89 8 жыл бұрын

+james pallord dude who got hit with flaming arrow, Sawyer calls him froghurt

@Sean-nl5ge 5 жыл бұрын

His parents died and he hated living in Hawaii

@JacklostYedmore 11 жыл бұрын

i heard he was suppose to be there through season 3 and 4 but he wasnt paid enough so he left, stupid because he was a awesome character and the 4th season would have been better with him on it

@vanesibolland8365 5 жыл бұрын

Sid Walker I heard someone from his family died while he was shooting the show

@BlackApple63 8 жыл бұрын

when MR.EKO lefted behind his brother ( Yemi ) how mr eko came to the island ???

@InfiniteRedux 7 жыл бұрын

He was in the tail of the plane that crashed

@BlackApple63 7 жыл бұрын

+Andre Williams Thanks Bro

@wibowomukti4572 5 жыл бұрын

He was on the oceanic 815 too

@terry- 3 жыл бұрын

He was in the 815 flight becose he decided to do the spiritual learning travel hes brother was going to make.

@lardlord3 3 жыл бұрын

I bet Eko was originally the one to Save Charlie because he was supposed to die when they wrote it in Season 3

@megatran14 12 жыл бұрын

@scumgod13 i loved oz! and adebisi was my fav character!

@nicedream1990 6 жыл бұрын

I was pissed when Eko died. They gave us his backstory and did the whole episode as a flashback for him and then killed him at the end. What's the point?

@blogtips3074 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe that even tho MIB / smokey took him, he was still able to join his brother as he had repented. The fake brother/smokey wanted him gone. He realized what was what.

@IllyrianHighlander 4 жыл бұрын

Smokey tried to recruit him, he refused and got killed for it. Eko wasn’t a candidate. Smokey succeeded with Locke, this is why Eko told Locke, your next.

@Damon242 12 жыл бұрын

What, why the monster killed Eko? Just parallel what happened with Richard in 'Ab Aeterno' with what happend with Eko in 'The 32rd Psalm' and 'The Cost of Living'.

@oshanepatterson5452 4 жыл бұрын

It killed Eko because he knew too much he was just like Locke.

@justthebestgolfer 12 жыл бұрын

@Tehui1974 Agreed=)

@thegoods44 9 жыл бұрын

Is that Andre from the league?? LOLOL

@Fuller620 4 жыл бұрын

“Didn’t want to be on the show anymore” ??? The man left to take care of his father. Phrasing is key.

@MatiZ815 3 жыл бұрын

All the same. Whatever the reasons were, he didn't want to be on the show anymore.

@nickgoodeman 12 жыл бұрын

What happened with Harold they kind of wanted to keep on the down low. Harold basically accused the creators of being racist and because of that they decided to not include him in the show anymore.

@wolfman8325 12 жыл бұрын

erm . . wizards did it!

@NoName-rx9lo 4 жыл бұрын

I didnt' like Mr. Eko and was relieved when he died. Is it just me?

@francibrasilis 4 жыл бұрын

Yes it is.

@dolucasduarte 3 жыл бұрын

yes, just you

@soxfan1957 11 жыл бұрын

To IMBAjaphix. They were all great actors. It's why I stuck with the show until the very end. Unfortunately the writers let us down.

@Khanage911 3 жыл бұрын

Next time give him his full pay

@VengerSatanis 3 жыл бұрын

Cha'alt!

@blackfang3000 3 жыл бұрын

All the ideas around Christianity were redirected from Mr. Eko to Season 6.

@MrDylan102 11 жыл бұрын

mr eko was one of my least favourite characters , im not sayin hes bad hes just not as good as i thought he would be when i first saw him

@justthebestgolfer 12 жыл бұрын

@Tehui1974 Why did he NOT wanna be on this hit show??? Even thought ur in the Jungle&may get muddy but hey there in Hawaii..lol.Dream job if U ask me..lol:)

@AveryJohnsonjr 12 жыл бұрын

did you watch season 6 all the way? it explains him and others who cannot "move on"

@adewaleakinnuoye-agbaje1398 2 жыл бұрын

@mannymunny7 11 жыл бұрын

long story short....there were too many seasons.this f#$#ed up the walt character as well because he looked like a grown man by the time they got to the last season.

@wibowomukti4572 5 жыл бұрын

Where is rose and bernard to..

@pabloriveroshachette1693 5 жыл бұрын

They lived on the island together until they died, they adopted vincent and built a big house and everything.

@Pmccaff2009 5 жыл бұрын

I must be the only one who did not care much for Eko, all of the tailies were pointless.

@mr.serious2618 5 жыл бұрын

Patrick Mc Caffery I thought he was cool. Bernard was pointless??

@cruzholland 11 жыл бұрын

conclusion: walt = eko

@itsReGiiT 10 жыл бұрын

fav episode: exposé

@XemnasKH 11 жыл бұрын

from this I am 100% positive they made this shit up as they went

@MissLovelyLiberal 11 жыл бұрын

Says the dink who didn't understand it...? :)

@adewaleakinnuoye-agbaje1398 2 жыл бұрын

@dinavolkman3679 3 жыл бұрын

The uptight sing arthroscopically prick because ptarmigan dimensionally like until a imaginary violet. proud, shivering dance

@adewaleakinnuoye-agbaje1398 2 жыл бұрын

@HeyGuy4321 Жыл бұрын

It's because wakanda hadn't happened yet.

@dumb_mario6461 5 жыл бұрын

Fake

@JJSMJ 11 жыл бұрын

I got the ending, it still sucked.

@terry- 3 жыл бұрын

nah, you didn't. You are just hurt it flew over your head the first time you watched.

@JJSMJ 3 жыл бұрын

@@terry- no, it isn't hard to understand. Was it hard for you? I watched this show RELIGIOUSLY. I watched the Missing Pieces and Orchid station video and the weird video about Hanso...I started noticing the writers were changing their minds in season 5 but I stuck with it. I figured out the purgatory/sideways reality when Locke said "you never had a son". It all clicked, for a second I asked myself if this was clever? It would have been if it were a different show. It serves no purpose on Lost other than something to "flash" to and give fans a "greatest hits" of their old fav characters saying sorry to each other. But it wasn't even the worst aspect of season 6...that would be literally everything else. What a waste.

@terry- 3 жыл бұрын

@@JJSMJ maybe you should of wrote and send them a better seasson 5 and 6. they had to wrap up after the writers strikes and set a final. had to tell everything more or less they wanted. this is what the series was about since episode 1, maybe you should of stopped watched there, and your life would not be ruined.

@JJSMJ 3 жыл бұрын

@@terry- Look I know you're proud of the work you did on the show, you were great as Locke but if you think the whole series was written during the first season you are ignoring lots of details. The writers strike was season 4 and that was one of the best seasons.

@terry- 3 жыл бұрын

@@JJSMJ Season 1 episode 5 - Locke: "I looked into the eye of this island and what I saw beautiful". Season 3 episode 5 - Locke: "I saw it once you know, I saw a very bright light it was beautiful"

@tech-no-logictech9743 Жыл бұрын

I'm really happy Lost was made before the woke-era. It's story driven entertainment that is not putting agendas and political messages first. That being said it also does a way better job in the diversity department without pushing it into our faces. It's all organic.

@LiamborninDC 11 жыл бұрын

Frogert is not a good trade off for Mr. Eko at all, whoever that writer was should be blacklisted.

@posner89 9 жыл бұрын

Proof if ever it was needed that they just totally made it up as they went along.

@tonytonie 7 жыл бұрын

Poz 89 not for the last 3 seasons, these were mostly planned I heard

@David-ws3rw 5 жыл бұрын

No, it's just the proof that you cannot plan everything from the beginning when you're writing a tv show compared to writing a book. Rewatch this video, it's just what has been said.

@Blood0cean 5 жыл бұрын

@@David-ws3rw that's nonesense and poor planning poor writing. Plenty of shows have an ending fleshed out and a series of events to satisfy the ending. These morons just shot in the dark to make drama from mystery and did it pretty well while us naive poor bastards watched the credits roll before we realised they didn't answer even 10% of the burning questions we had. What posses ppl off is that they have the gall to just put it there and not even adress it in the future. Stop defending ppl that don't need defending. They are not good story tellers. They are good at drama.

@David-ws3rw 5 жыл бұрын

I agree that they could have plan much more and much better, what I'm saying is that by the nature of TV shows you just have to made up things while the show goes along. I'm not saying they've done a perfect job with it.

@selkirkj7907 11 жыл бұрын

Eko was awesome. Good thing they made the whole series into a useless waste of time in the finale, or I'd still be pissed that they killed him off.

@AlexanderWinn 11 жыл бұрын

That's so incredibly racist.

@MYTMIC 7 жыл бұрын

Well good for Eko that he left before they ruined his character!

@tommyortiz6114 6 жыл бұрын

MYT MIC huh

@drakenfist 5 жыл бұрын

@@tommyortiz6114 Yeah I don't get that either. Word is from another interview with Damon, Desmond's entire character arc with Charlie and seeing the future was going to be Eko's arc. It would have been fascinating because everything that happened with Desmond would have happened with Eko but with his story and in more of a spiritual way.