lost: elizabeth mitchell’s take on suliet’s last moments

juliet & the red shirt. should've known. // abc promotional photo

In last week’s Entertainment Weekly, Elizabeth Mitchell talked about her new series, V, as well as the fate of Juliet on Lost.

This morning, EW released some extra quotes from her interview, including this gutwrenching story from filming the final moments of “The Incident”:

At the time, I didn’t think I was ever coming back.  So for me it was just a really big goodbye and easily heartbreaking. It wasn’t one of those things to think about it. Also, Josh [Holloway] is really strong, so I was on this pulley, and I had them loosen the pulley so he’d really be holding me up, and it killed both of us every time. When my hand slipped from his, it was because he couldn’t hold on any longer. So that hit us with a real punch.  And then, to be trapped in that cave and to have no way of telling anybody and to be too hurt to move—who does that happen to?  Is that not your deepest, deepest nightmare? So that was very easy to play because it was so big…. We were all broken-hearted and crying quite a bit.

Meanwhile, Carlton Cuse hints at the future, saying, “There’s still something very significant that we have not yet learned about [Juliet].”

Of returning later on, Elizabeth says, “It’s probably exactly what you expect, but because it’s Damon and Carlton, you know they’re just going to turn it on its ear.”  For the record, what I expect is that she’ll be part of some reset universe in the beginning of the season; I’m also confident she’ll be back for May’s series finale, to shepherd Sawyer into the beyond when he dies protecting Kate and her children with Jack.

What are you expecting?