Emilie de Ravin Not Lost Anymore

Fans of the hit television show Lost might know Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton — the woman who disappeared in the fourth season only to return in the sixth. The rest us will be introduced to her this weekend when she stars alongside Twilight‘s Robert Pattinson in the romantic drama Remember Me. She plays Ally, a young college student who has never healed from the loss of her murdered mother. De Ravin says that she “couldn’t put the script down” after it was handed to her and was very “passionate about it from the get-go.”

“It’s very grounded and honest. All of the characters are so well developed and you find out so much about each individual. It’s so organic the way everyone interacts and how these situations in life, and tragedies and relationships, affect one another,” she tells CityNews.ca.

Originally her role was written as a Hispanic part, a detail that changed only weeks before filming began. Being brought in late in the game meant she had to work extra hard to get to know her two main co-stars, Pattinson and Chris Cooper. Cooper plays her overprotective police detective father in the film and they needed to look like they had been through a lot together.

“Chris [Cooper] and I spent a lot of time getting to know each other so that we could really bond onscreen naturally. The father and daughter relationship we wanted to make very believable and unforced. Same with Rob and I in the film, their characters meet and become so close so quick that we wanted to make sure it came across just how connected these two people are,” he says.

When asked to compare working in television and film, she cites time to develop the role as the biggest difference.

“The luxury of film is not just having more time to prep and rehearse, but having that script in front of you from day one. With its beginning, middle, and end all there. You’re not constantly finding out week after week new elements of your character that you didn’t know before. That’s something I really enjoy about film.”

Although her mother inspires her life in many ways, she adds that on the set of Remember Me it was the “insanely talented people” that kept her pushing from scene to scene. When asked who her favourite actors or directors are she answers; “I’m not really the type of person to have a favourite this or favourite that.”

She does have a list of people she would like to, or have liked to, work with.

“I would have loved to have worked with [Alfred] Hitchcock. I’ve been a fan of his since I was a child,” she says. “I’d love to work with the Coen Bros. I think they’re geniuses the way they tread the line between genres. Their films are always unique in that fashion. [Martin] Scorsese would be amazing to work with too.”

As for the message she wishes people get out of Remember Me it’s to slow down and enjoy life.

“We’re so caught up in work and go, go, go. Just take that second and sit back and appreciate life and don’t it for granted,” she says.

Ravin heads back to Hawaii soon to finish the last season of Lost and lends her voice talents to Zack Snyder’s animated feature Legend of the Guardians later this year. Remember Me is in theatres on March 12.

brian.mckechnie@citynews.rogers.com

Top image: A scene from Remember Me. Courtesy E1 Entertainment.

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