LOST : Maggie Grace Reflects On Shannon's Fate 19 Years Later
19 years later, Lost star Maggie Grace reflects on the fate of her character Shannon Rutherford, calling it the "worst heartbreak of my career." https://t.co/fwpYKDVKbm
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Maggie Grace played Shannon Rutherford, stepsister to fellow Oceanic Flight 815 survivor Boone Carlyle, and she became romantically involved with another castaway, Sayid Jarrah. Grace was a series regular throughout all of season 1 and up to the season 2 episode "What Kate Did," where Shannon was buried on the island after being shot in season 2, episode 6, "Abandoned." She briefly reprised the role for a season 3 episode and in the series finale.
Grace looked back on her time spent filming Lost and her disappointment that her character was killed so early.
"I thought they were gonna take her a little further. It’s still the worst heartbreak of my career. I was devastated!"
Grace also spoke about reasons Shannon may have been killed, along with her unrealized hopes of how the character could've developed had she survived longer.
"[She] was sort of a caricature of white privilege before that was a phrase, you know? And maybe I was just too good at my assigned job of being incredibly annoying. I thought maybe she would do something surprising, or have another colour [to her personality]. Maybe she’d, at the last moment, redeem herself and be incredibly self-sacrificial in some way. I guess there were flashes of it, but not in the way I hoped in terms of an arc . That’s a selfish actor’s point of view. They definitely had bigger fish to fry."
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