There’s a great article on The LA Times, detailing Paul Brownfield’s trip to the set of ‘Lost’ where he dines with the cast on the set, obstructs Evangeline Lilly’s path in the food queue, and enjoy’s the stereotypical Hawaiian surfer lifestyle. The jungle isn’t as far from civilisation as it seems on the show. A very interesting read.

Then, like a mirage out of the foliage, I came upon a gravel clearing and a row of huge trucks. The second thing I saw was the cast of Lost. The actors were walking single file, at spaced intervals, to their trailers, led by the show’s star, Matthew Fox, who plays Jack, a heroic doctor with an unresolved relationship with his alcoholic doctor father.

In the buffet line, the radiant Evangeline Lilly, who plays Kate, bumped into me and apologized; briefly, in the 2½ seconds it took to remember she’s an actress, I fell in love. Everybody seemed congenial. Finally, they all took a van to the location, maybe 800 meters from the base camp. I walked.

In the scene they were shooting, Jack ran at another cast member, screaming the profanity-laced question, “Where … were you, you … ?” and tackled him on the beach, at which point Jack was tackled by several other cast members. They did the scene; I thought it went well. Then they did the scene again. Because this is television, they did it still again. Equipment came and went. Between takes, somebody spritzed Fox’s face with a spray bottle. He paced, away from the others, and I admired his focus.

This sounds like the scene where Jack tackles Locke over his involvement in Boone’s death and demands to know what they were doing in the jungle. Locke wants to keep what he knows a secret, and thus sparks the conflict between Locke and Jack, which, it has been said, is a major part of the story for of the remainder of the season.