Lost actor Henry Ian Cusick reflects on finale: ‘I felt it ended too soon’

Desmond actor says he felt hit drama ‘became too much about Jack’

Lost actor Henry Ian Cusick has said he thinks the show ended too soon and would be up for appearing in a reboot.

Cusick, who played Desmond Hume from the show’s second season onwards, revealed that he thinks “there was more story” for his character and on-screen partner, Penny (Sonya Walger) in a new oral history celebrating 10 years since the hit drama’s finale.

“At the time, i had ideas for [Desmond] but now they’ve kind of faded,” he told The Independent. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh, what about this part of Desmond’s story?’ Especially with his son Charlie. I felt there was more story for Penny and Desmond.”

He continued: “I felt we ended too soon. They could have done another season. I just felt sometimes the ending became a little bit… it just became all about Jack [Matthew Fox], and we could have known a bit more about the other characters.”

Cusick, who appears in the US reboot of 1970s series MacGyver, said he’d be up in appearing in a continuation of Lost should the opportunity arise.

“I think a reboot would be really cool,” he said. “I’d be really excited to see what they did if any of us got asked back. I’d imagine they’d go with the island being the star. But you never know. It was a cool show and things are getting rebooted all the time.”

Carlton Cuse, who was showrunner on the series alongside Damon Lindelof, added: “[We] have resisted the idea of rebooting the show, but we’ve been very open that it will happen. Someone will come along and pitch a great idea that happens in the world of Lost. It’s Disney’s property and we won’t begrudge them the fact they may want to do something else with it. We got the chance to tell our story.”

The last ever episode of Lost aired in the US on 23 May 2010 – you can read the oral history, which features words from Evangeline Lilly (Kate Austen), Jorge Garcia (Hugo “Hurley” Reyes) and Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert) here.