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Lost Charlotte Lewis

Dr. Charlotte Staples Lewis is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Rebecca Mader. Lewis was introduced in the second episode of season four and is a cultural anthropologist hired on a mission to the island where Oceanic Flight 815 crashed. Charlotte's name is a tribute to C. S. Lewis, the famous Christian apologist author and scholar best known for writing The Chronicles of Narnia series as well as multiple Christian classics including Mere Christianity.[2] Originally conceived by the show's creators to be an American, Charlotte's heritage was changed to be English, after the producers were impressed with Mader's audition where she used an English accent.

On the Island she is initially held hostage by Locke (Terry O'Quinn), until he agrees for her to switch places with another person on Charlotte's mission. She helps prevent poison gas from being released over the Island, and develops a relationship with Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies).

Arc
As a spy on the freighter, Michael Dawson (Harold Perrineau) discovers Charlotte has two sisters, was born in Essex, England, and grew up in Bromsgrove with her parents.[3] However in the fourth season finale, she comments that she is looking for where she was born.[4] She went to University of Kent for her undergraduate degree and earned a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Oxford. While in Tunisia, she picks up a newspaper where she reads Oceanic Flight 815 has been found, and she can not believe it. She goes to an excavation site, in the Sahara Desert, and discovers the remains of a polar bear, which has a collar bearing a Dharma Initiative logo. Charlotte is selected along with Daniel Faraday, Miles Straume (Ken Leung), and Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey), to work on a mission to the island where the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 had crashed. En route, she is forced to eject from the helicopter during a lightning storm.

Charlotte arrives on the island on December 23, 2004, where she encounters Locke and the other survivors who believe the people from the freighter are dangerous. They remove her tracking device so that they cannot be found by other people from the freighter, then place the tracker on their dog, Vincent, who runs off. She maintains that she is there to rescue them, however Locke does not believe her. Charlotte later spots a flare that she says belongs to a member of her team. When no one wants to investigate, Charlotte becomes impatient and begins to go off on her own, leading Ben Linus (Michael Emerson), a man who lived on the Island before the plane crash, to shoot her. She is wearing a bullet proof vest and survives, forcing Ben to reveal that the mission of Charlotte's team is actually to find him. The group go to the Barracks, where they encounter other survivors from the plane crash, Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), and Miles, who has been brought to switch places with Charlotte. While at the beach that night, she tests Daniel's memory with playing cards, noting he has made progress when he can remember two out of three cards. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell) force her to call the freighter, and learn that the helicopter, which had left a few days ago with Sayid, Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick), and Frank, never arrived there. That night, Charlotte and Daniel sneak off to one of the Dharma Initiative stations, the Tempest, where they neutralize a potential source of poison gas. While getting medical supplies at another of the Dharma Initiative stations, the Staff, Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) notices Charlotte smiling after his wife Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim) remarks in Korean that Charlotte knows Daniel fancies her because she is a woman. Jin confronts Charlotte, saying he will hurt Daniel if she does not cooperate. Jin makes her promise to take Sun off the Island with them when the helicopter returns. Miles makes a coy remark against Charlotte when he returns, implying that he knows that Charlotte was "born on the island" and implies he knows more about Charlotte's secrets. When Daniel begins to ferry survivors across to the freighter, she kisses him, then watches on as he leaves. She disappears with the Island and its remaining inhabitants when Ben "moves" it to its new location. Charlotte soon experiences nosebleeds and headaches, and is unable to remember her mother's maiden name. As the Island jumps through time, her nosebleeds become more severe, and she collapses. Charlotte relays to Faraday that she lived on the Island as a child as a part of the Dharma Initiative, and that a "scary man"—whom she now recognizes as Faraday—told her that once she left the Island, she should never return or else she would die. Soon after, Charlotte dies in his arms.

After traveling back in time to 1977, Daniel indeed spots Charlotte as a little girl, but has promised himself that he will not say anything to her.

Characteristics
During casting, Charlotte was described as "a hot twentysomething ... precocious, loquacious and funny... a very successful academic who also knows how to handle herself in the real world". She also has "lots of repressed and pent-up emotions" beneath the surface.The Lost producers described her as a "female version of Indiana Jones".

Development
The producers cast English actress Rebecca Mader because "she won them over with her charm and presence and charisma".Whilst recording her audition, a producer who was with her noticed that all the shows on her resume were from the BBC, so asked her to read the audition again with a British accent, which "opened up another dimension [to the character that the producer's] hadn't foreseen", so they changed Charlotte from American to English. Despite never having seen Lost, Mader decided that she "was not going to leave the auditioning room until she made Lindelof and Cuse fall in love with her". During auditions, the producers provide fake scenes, in order to keep new character's identities a secret. Rebecca Mader's audition scene was a fake flashback and she was disappointed that it was not used for the show. It was falsely rumored that Kristen Bell was offered the role of Charlotte;Bell had actually spoken to the producers about having a part, however, no role was offered to her.Mader subsequently began to watch the first three seasons of Lost and was watching the fourth episode when she received the news that she had been chosen for the role. She watched all the previous episodes of Lost in the few weeks before she started working on the show.Charlotte Staples Lewis is a reference to C. S. Lewis and "an important clue to places the show was going at the end of the fourth season". Lewis was one of Mader's favorite authors as a child and found it "wicked" and "cool" for her character to be named after him. When she was cast, Mader was unaware of whether she would be a guest star, or would develop into a regular. She was originally supposed to feature in eight episodes of the series, but after the writers' strike her character was carried forward to season five, resulting in her featuring in twenty episodes.

Charlotte's discovery of a polar bear with a Dharma Initiative collar lead to speculation about how she is connected to the Island. Mader herself is unaware of Charlotte's backstory beyond the flashback in "Confirmed Dead", noting "I feel like I'm almost in the same seat as the audience, like 'What the hell is going on?' and 'What the hell is going to happen next?', it's really exciting actually". Mader also enjoyed that she only requires a small amount of hair and makeup done, saying that "I just wanted to rough it. I wanted to roll around in the mud with a gun." She had a professional dialect coach to help her speak Korean in "Something Nice Back Home".Mader found Charlotte and Daniel's relationship "cute", adding "I think we've got really good chemistry ... we work pretty well together and he's really good". She also said "as time goes on we learn a little bit more and we see a little bit more between them, and I like their relationship personally, between us, because I feel like it’s the only time - or one of the few times when the audience get to see a softer side of Charlotte, when she isn't just too sinister all the time. You can see that she actually does have a heart and she does obviously have some sort of affection for this man". Mader thought Charlotte was accepted by fans because she "was part of moving the whole storyline along where all these people were going to get off [the island]. It wasn't just adding new people and throwing them in and seeing if it stuck".She did note that it was hard for fans to connect with Charlotte because "she arrived with an apparent mission and then didn't do it" and was disappointed to not get the opportunity to tell Charlotte's backstory during season four.She was excited when she discovered that Charlotte was originally on the Island, so was disappointed when she found out that her character would die when she was negotiating contracts in June 2008. Mader said she would happily return to the show during season six if she was asked.