Emilie de Ravin Not So Lost

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Emilie de Ravin, who plays Claire Littleton in “Lost,” is this month’s Toro pin-up. She’s promoting her upcoming role as Brenda Carter in a remake of the movie “The Hills Have Eyes.”

She is the fragile one, the small one, the one they want to save. She walks slowly, delicately, with full red lips and pale, lustrous skin. Yet there’s always something more with Emilie de Ravin. Something taut, inside, as if each step could end with a demi rond de jambe. De Ravin was a ballerina before Hollywood got her. She will always cause our hearts to soubresaut. That she’s also the yummiest of television’s mummies? Maybe we’ll just take that bit as gravy.

Twenty-five now, she skipped from dancing with a ballet company in Australia to Hollywood in her teens. She started out as The Demon Curupira, prancing around the Gold Coast jungle in green body paint and an elf outfit that somehow managed, in spite of itself, to look comely. Who else could have made a show called BeastMaster watchable? Then on to Roswell, as the alien babe who suddenly found herself with child.

You’re more likely to know her from Lost. She’s Claire Littleton, the amnesiac Australian beauty, the screamer. She’s the one with the baby, that armful of newborn fright.

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But then I mention an advance publicity photo I’ve seen from The Hills Have Eyes, the upcoming remake of the clash-of-civilizations horror that made Wes Craven famous. De Ravin plays Brenda Carter, the daughter, in an upright American family. The Carters take a driving trip across the California desert. All goes well until the inbred cannibals strike.

Emilie de Ravin Not So Lost

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