Emilie de Ravin Has a 'Lost' Baby

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - After what may have been the longest on-screen final trimester in the history of television -- with almost six months of episodes covering only about a month-and-a-half in the plot -- plane-crash survivor Claire (Emilie de Ravin) on ABC's megahit "Lost" finally gave birth on Wednesday, April 6. The episode, called "Do No Harm," also saw the tragic death of fellow island castaway Boone (Ian Somerhalder).

Some online theorists -- and they are Legion on "Lost" -- wonder if Boone's soul had passed into Claire's male child at the moment of his birth. This comes as news to de Ravin.

"On, no, really?" de Ravin says. "Then Boone didn't really die ... that's an interesting one. I should have thought of that, shouldn't I? I haven't heard any theories, but I'm sure there are quite a lot more."
Never having been a mother herself, de Ravin consulted her sisters, who have children, about the experience of giving birth. The advice wound up being only of limited use.

"I was talking to people," she says, "and they were saying, 'I don't know how I'd recreate that unless it was actually happening,' because it just takes over your body. That's something that's so hard to recreate, something that's so primal and so animal and so personal to each woman."

With the possible exception of the lovely ladies of Wisteria Lane on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," few fictional characters have been the subject of more conversation, calculation and speculation this past season than the hapless souls aboard the unfortunate Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 on "Lost."

Since de Ravin was also on the cult favorite "Roswell," she's quite familiar with having devoted and passionate fans.

"It's great," she says, "that people are thinking about it so much. Audiences enjoy -- I know I do -- being a participant as opposed to sitting back. I like something that makes you think.

"There are so many hidden messages and reasonings and secrets in each episode that unless you're really thinking about it, you don't get all that. And there's so many theories, one's gotta be right."

Asked if she has a personal theory about what's up with the survivors' mysterious island home, with its polar bears, invisible monsters, whispering spirits and buried metal hatches, de Ravin says, "To be honest with you, it keeps changing the more we do the show. It probably won't change any more until next season, because we've been given the last scripts. I've got no more to work with.

"I still have a theory, like many people, that we are all meant to be here. It's not an accident, especially after my episode."

In "Raised by Another," which aired Dec. 1, a psychic in Australia, fearful that someone other than Claire would raise her child, deceived the unwed mother-to-be into getting on the fateful flight to Los Angeles.

"But it's not just me," de Ravin says, "it's everyone. There's something that we're maybe supposed to resolve by being here. We're put here for a reason, and if we resolve whatever issue or problem or thing we're facing, somehow maybe we'll find a way out."

With so much speculation on the Internet, the Australian-born de Ravin wonders about the effect on fans across the globe that, intentionally or accidentally, are exposed to plot developments before episodes air in their countries.

"I could be wrong," she says, "but I don't think there's a show on air right now that actually airs the same time in each country. It's kind of a shame for international viewers. You can go online and find out what happens in future episodes.

"A show like 'Lost' relies so much on its suspense and mystery, if something's revealed when it shouldn't be, it's kind of a shame."

Airing on Wednesday, April 27, is "Lost: The Journey," a special chronicling the plot so far and looking ahead to the big finale (an hour of television that international fans should devoutly avoid). Original episodes return on Wednesday, May 4, with "The Greater Good," focusing on former Iraqi Republican Guardsman Sayid (Naveen Andrews) and on Claire's newborn son.

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