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Evangeline Lilly, who played Kate Austen on Lost and Hope van Dyne in the MCU, posted a blistering Instagram video on April 30, 2026 attacking Disney over mass Marvel layoffs and the company's pivot to AI. "Disney, SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away," she wrote. On April 14, Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro announced roughly 1,000 job cuts, hitting Marvel Studios' visual development team — about 8% of its workforce. Among those let go was Andy Park, a 16-year veteran who designed the original Wasp suit Lilly wore and worked on Captain America, Thor, and Avengers: Endgame.

Nestor Carbonell, who played the ageless Richard Alpert on Lost, returns as a villain in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, released March 20, 2026 by Searchlight Pictures. He plays Ignacio El Caído, the sniper-wielding head of one of five elite families competing in a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Directed by Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the Scream duo), the sequel brings back Samara Weaving as Grace, now hunted again — this time over a magical ring and ultimate power. The cast also includes Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood, Kathryn Newton, and director David Cronenberg as a family patriarch.

Harold Perrineau (Michael Dawson in Lost) revealed in an April 2026 interview with The Independent that one of his former co-stars still refuses to speak to him — twenty years after his character killed Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) and Libby (Cynthia Watros) in cold blood in Season 2, Episode 20, "Two for the Road" (May 2006). The behind-the-scenes truth: Perrineau was the only actor on set told the scene in advance. Producers told him: "he's coming back, here's what he's going to do, and we are not telling anybody until the day we shoot it." Rodriguez and Watros learned that morning they were being killed off. One of them never got over it.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who played Mr. Eko on Lost, returns to HBO in Euphoria Season 3 as Alamo Brown — a Black Southern cowboy who runs strip clubs, guns and drugs, and takes Rue Bennett (Zendaya) under his wing. The season premiered April 12, 2026 with eight episodes airing weekly through the May 31 finale. Alamo is mentor and threat in the same scene. He sees in Rue the ambition that built him.

Yunjin Kim, who played Sun-Hwa Kwon on Lost, won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature on March 15, 2026 as the voice of Celine in KPop Demon Hunters. It's the first Academy Award attached to a member of the Lost main cast. The Netflix film — directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans — also took home Best Original Song for "Golden," the first K-pop track to win an Oscar. Kang and co-director Michelle Wong became the first women of Korean descent to win in the animated feature category.