Everything happens for a reason.
Sam Anderson has confessed that passengers are not at all excited about flying on the same plane as him and his fellow “Lost” alum L. Scott Caldwell.
He shared the surprising revelation on Sunday during a sitdown with Variety about his time on the popular sci-fi drama.
“Sometimes, Scott and I would be traveling on the same flight,” Anderson told the outlet. “And as we walked on, we’d see people’s faces like, ‘Get me off this plane; it’s gonna crash.’”
Anderson, 79, joined season two of “Lost” in 2005 as Bernard Nadler and remained on the show until the finale in season six. Caldwell, 75, played his wife, Rose Nadler.
The show followed a group of characters after they survived a disastrous plane crash and worked to survive on a mysterious island located in the South Pacific Ocean. It also starred Matthew Fox (Jack Shepherd), Josh Holloway (James “Sawyer” Ford) and Evangeline Lilly (Kate Austen).
But even though people might be afraid to fly with Anderson due to his close connections to the show, he still speaks highly of “Lost” and the opportunities it offered him as an almost 60-year-old actor when he joined in 2005.
“That changed everything,” he said.
Anderson also “loved” that the creators of “Lost” never “did an episode about race” even though he and his onscreen wife, played by Caldwell, were an interracial couple.
“One of the things I loved about it most was that I think many people thought that someplace along the line, we were going to do an episode about race,” he explained. “And they never did – they normalized it. We were just two people incredibly in love.”
Still, Anderson and Caldwell’s onscreen relationship led to one of the most iconic moments on the show when Jorge Garcia’s character, Hugo “Hurley” Reyes, says: “So, Rose’s husband’s white. Didn’t see that one coming.”
Now, 15 years after “Lost” aired its finale in May 2010, Anderson stars in the reboot of the legal drama “Matlock” alongside Hollywood legend Kathy Bates, 76.
Anderson plays Bates’ onscreen husband, Edwin, in the show developed by Jennie Snyder Urman.
“It has been such a gift,” Anderson gushed about working with Bates. “I say that as somebody who is as interested in the craft and how it works as she is, I just landed in co-star heaven.”
He also praised Urman’s “joyful” scripts.
“I get these scripts and it’s like reading a best-selling novel,” he said. “More often than not, I’m gasping because I can’t believe what Jennie has pulled off. It’s a joy to read and a joy to play.”
Sadly, Bates suggested back in September that she might retire after “Matlock” comes to an end.
“This is my last dance,” she said at the time.
