I was so excited when my Entertainment Weekly came in the mail! Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly are on the cover. I have been looking forward to the new season to start already, but I am having a hard time not getting lost with all the time shifting they are doing. This won’t deter me though because I can’t abandon a show I have seen every episode of since the beginning.

Here are some highlights from the interview in the magazine:

Evangeline Lilly on the whole Jack VS Sawyer love interest: ”What I’ve noticed is that the audience tends to root for the coupling that gets the most screen time — and right now, what they’re seeing is Kate and Jack.”

Matthew Fox on love affairs-with ratings: ”That’s someone going, ‘People love romance, so just turn the buttons and dial it up,”’ complains Fox. ”Look, I understand that. But it has to be f—ing credible. Our world doesn’t lend itself to conventional romance. Yearning? Yes. Desire? Yes. Passion? Yes. And when those things play out in the context of survival s— that’s gotta get done, where people’s lives are f—ing at stake — that’s cool. But romance? I haven’t always bought it for Jack and Kate, and I haven’t always bought it for Kate and Sawyer. The show’s too intense for that.”

Matthew on Jack’s pull to the island: ”I’ve always believed part of what was destroying him was his lack of physical proximity to the Island,” says Fox. ”He is fated to do something on the Island, and he has fought that with every fiber of his body, and in doing that, the Island is destroying him from afar. When he finds himself back in this place, he’s wide-eyed and alert. He knows he’s in the path of his own destiny.”

Matthew on this season’s new twists: ”It feels very different from what Lost has felt like in the past, but in a really good way,” says the actor, sporting neatly parted hair and some dangling iPod earbuds. ”There will be many, many answers, lots of things from past seasons that left the audience thinking, ‘That’s never going to pay off’ — but it does, in really cool ways that make you go ‘Holy s—!’ The season has a real feeling of things coming together, and it builds a groundswell of momentum for the end of the show.”

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Evangeline on taking chances: ”I respect that [the writers] do things that could potentially alienate parts of their audience, because that means they are being true to their story and not being manipulated by outside pressure.”

Matthew on Lost’s legacy: ”People will remember it the way they want to remember it,” he says. ”What I will remember is that Lost was one of the most innovative, risk-taking, smartest shows ever. That’s how I want to remember it. And I think it deserves that.”

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Evangeline Lilly is the cover girl for the latest issue of TV Guide. With the new season of Lost just around the corner she covers the magazine just in time.,  Here are some highlights and spoilers included in the interview.

On her attitude to fame: “I deny that I am Evangeline Lilly…it’s terrible to admit but I don’t care….I wasn’t ready for any of this.”

On herself: “I’m goofy and weird and a bit loud.”

On the tabloids: “To this day I’m engaged every summer….you can’t give an inch because they’ll take a mile. I don’t have any investment in needing to be the next megastar.”

On doing her own hair and makeup: “I decided I’m just gonna be me and if people don’t like that, OK.”

On when Kate first sees Sawyer: “There’s almost a feeling of seeing a ghost. I really believe she thought he was dead.”

And a few Lost spoilers: By February one character (besides Locke) will be dead, Sawyer may have a new love interest with one of the island’s earlier residents, and the future-seeing old lady encountered by Desmond is ‘more important than you ever dreamed’ (Cuse).

I can’t wait until Wednesday!

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