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Originally posted: May 23, 2008
Michael Emerson reacts to Ben's tourney popularity
Updated at 2:15 p.m. Friday, May 23
Benjamin Linus ran out of plans. He's been defeated by Sir Guy of Gisborne from "Robin Hood" in RedEye’s Best TV Character tourney.
Posted at 1:15 p.m. Friday, May 23
I was surprised when actor Michael Emerson called me directly Friday morning. Usually a PR person calls to connect you to an interview subject, but that wasn’t the main reason for my shock.
“Hello Curt, this is Michael Emerson,” he said. But what I heard was the voice of Benjamin Linus, the always scheming leader of the Others on ABC’s “Lost.”
Ben is a finalist in RedEye’s Best TV Character tourney. Emerson had a very un-Ben-like, modest reaction to that news.
“I’m amazed that 7,000 people [the numbers of votes he’d earned] felt strongly enough to vote for him,” he told me. “But that’s great.”
“He’s a wonderful character,” Emerson said.
Ben has defeated Katherine Mayfair of “Desperate Housewives,” Number Six from “Battlestar Galactica” (“I’m honored,” Emerson said), Dwight Schrute from “The Office” and Liz Lemon from “30 Rock” to face Sir Guy of Gisborne from “Robin Hood” in the finals. Voting has now ended.
| LISTEN TO A MESSAGE FROM BENJAMIN LINUS TO ALL HIS FANS |
Emerson said he’s having a great time playing such a complicated, mysterious character—one of the favorites from his career—and that a lot of that comes from the writers. He said that over time, the writers have made Ben do some of the same movements, gestures and voice inflections they’ve observed Emerson.
“The way I speak is the way Ben speaks now,” he said. “I’m flattered. The writers watch closely how I move and speak and it appears in the scripts.
“I and the role are converging.”
But don’t think Emerson is as cruel as Ben. “It’s fun to play because you get to act out things that are not part of your life,” he said. “You tap the imagination. You’re never going to kill someone, but you can play it.”
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