“It became pretty clear that I was the Black guy.Daniel [Dae Kim]was the Asian guy.
And then you had Jack and Kate and Sawyer,” he said.
“I was f—ed up about it.
The cast of ‘Lost’.Reisig and Taylor/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
I was like, ‘Oh, I just got fired, I think,'” Perrineau said.
“I was like, ‘Wait a minute, what’s happening?’
I was just asking for equal depth.”
Harold Perrineau and Malcolm David Kelley on ‘Lost’.Mario Perez/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
“Everyone laughed [when Lindelof said that],” Owusu-Breen alleged.
“There was so much shit, and so much racist shit, and then laughter.
It was ugly.”
Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Randy Shropshire/Deadline via Getty Images
Lindelof said he did not recall the particular comment while addressing the alleged offenses.
“What can I say?
Other than it breaks my heart that that was Harold’s experience,” he said.
He said he was “shocked and appalled” by the writers’ allegations.
“I have no recollection of those specific things,” he said.
“And that’s not me saying that they didn’t happen.
Perrineau, he said, is “completely and totally right to point that out.”
“It breaks my heart to hear it,” Cuse said in his own statement.
“It’s deeply upsetting to know that there were people who had such bad experiences.
I did not know people were feeling that way.
No one ever complained to me, nor am I aware that anybody complained to ABC Studios.
I wish I had known.
I would have done what I could to make changes.”
