15 years after the series premiere of “Lost,” Daniel Dae Kim, who played series regular Jin-Soo Kwon, still remembers his first encounter with the smoke monster. He didn’t know what it was, but he was directed to treat it like “the scariest thing you’ve ever seen.”
“We were all supposed to gather around the wing of the plane and look off into the jungle,” Kim told TheWrap. “The note was ‘There’s something out there, and you don’t know what it is — but it’s the scariest thing you’ve ever heard.’ That was my introduction to the smoke monster.”
Though he and his castmates had “a lot of questions” about that infamous column of smoke, the writers kept them in the dark about any explanations until “season five or six,” he recalled.