Are you still enjoying it, it sounds as though the enthusiasm has left the cast.

No, we still like being with each other, and Hawaii’s still a wonderful place to be, but you know the schedules of television are extremely grueling, don’t want to sound like I’m moaning but one of the great things about film is the beginning, the middle and end, and the fucking thing stops.

Has the Hawaiian PD been after you?

I’m in with the Hawaii PD, I’ve been let off I don’t know how many times, I can’t tell you. They have been so generous with me, I’m very grateful.

Do you see yourself doing any work with JJ camp anytime soon, maybe a big Star Trek movie?

I like where I am at the moment, actually.  I like the idea of being able to continue to do more films, and hopefully maybe do a good piece of art every now and then and earn some money for the kids.

Do you have anything lined up for this year’s hiatus?

This hiatus, yes, there’s a few things, but to be honest with you I haven’t stopped working since the start of Lost and that’s a good thing, but you do have a life and you can’t wear yourself out. I haven’t stopped.

Can you tell us a little about your role in The Brave One? It’s a vengeance flick, right?

Yes, if anything that’s also another genre film in the sense that it reminded me of the Death Wish cycle of films from the late seventies and the early eighties. But with Neil Jordon directing it I think it will be a lot eerier and have a kind of emotional resonance that those films maybe didn’t have. But I will say this without giving it away, if the relationship between Jodie and me doesn’t work, then the film won’t work. That relationship has to work for the rest of the film to come off.

Were you a horror fan in the past – any favorites?

Oh God no, I wish I could say yes but I thought they were rubbish.

You think more highly of Plant Terror?

No, I think that’s horror too as far as I’m concerned, it’s all the same bloody thing to me, I’m ignorant. Again, coming from England, we’re snobs, we’re snobs about film, we think that art and cinema should be Pasolini.

Does Lost limit the kind of roles you can do, because you can’t do too much with your look?

Oh no, on the contrary - I have to say this, I wouldn’t have got this film without Lost, I wouldn’t have to got the Jodie film without Lost, it’s been very good in that sense.

Do you think they should be rescued in the end?

No, kill the fuckers!

Do you actually know what the end is?

No.