YOU TAKE THE WORK YOU CAN

We have observed that most of the LOST actors have not had superstar or steller post-LOST acting careers. Whether they have been pigeon holed into sci-fi roles, secondary character acting parts or even given starring roles in new TV pilots, no one truly has had the success or demographics of their time on the ABC series.

Acting is a tough business. There are more actors than parts. It is a game of Hollywood politics. Producers and agents make deals with studios who sell to network distributors. There is little merit or rhyme or reason to why some actors continually get high profile parts while other more talented actors get hit or miss roles.

The most current example of this is serialization of another one of those cable news channel's overblown coverage of a murder trial.  The LOST angle is the star of this quick to film made-for-TV movie.

The Lifetime network announced “Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret” will hit the small screen in June.
The flick will star “Lost” actress Tania Raymonde as Arias. Raymonde played Alex on LOST.

On May 8, 2013 a Phoenix jury found 32-year-old Arias guilty of murder of her boyfriend. The evidence presented at trial was that Arias stabbed and slashed him nearly 30 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and shot him in the forehead in what prosecutors described as a jealous rage after the victim wanted to end their affair and planned to head off on a trip to Mexico with another woman.

The case got massive nightly cable television coverage due to its explicit sex, lies, obsessive behavior and the oddity that the attractive defendant testified in her own defense.  Badly.

This is why the general public gets a flawed view of the American legal system. The Arias trial was televised so the network had essentially months of "free" programming for their pundits to chew on. In a normal case in any other big city, a murder trial lasts less than three days. Judges and prosecutors have thousands of cases to deal with and no time to spend months on a simple preppy murder case.