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Damon Lindelof, 'Lost' Co-Creator, Acknowledges Failure Amidst Allegations of Toxicity and Racism

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Damon Lindelof is owning up to his past failures as the showrunner and co-creator the mega popular ABC series, Lost.

The series, which ended in 2010, has long been criticized by crew and cast members over the racist and toxic environment that stemmed from the writers room.

An excerpt from Maureen Ryan‘s upcoming book “Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood,” was released on Vanity Fair, and its there that Damon reflects on the accusations, admitting he failed as a leader on the show. Keep reading to find out more… Damon says that his “fundamental inexperience as a manager and a boss, my role as someone who was supposed to model a climate of creative danger and risk-taking but provide safety and comfort inside of the creative process — I failed in that endeavor.” He went on, telling the author (who conducted the interview in 2021) that he thought having “one or two [writers] who don’t look and think exactly like me, then, then I’m OK.

I came to learn that was even worse.” “For those specific individuals, forget about the ethics or the morality involved around that decision, but just talking about the human effect of being the only woman or the only person of color and how you are treated and othered — I was a part of that, a thousand percent.” Damon continued, “The way that I conduct myself and the way that I treat other humans who I am responsible for and a manager of is a by-product of all the mistakes that were made.…I have significantly evolved and grown, and it shouldn’t have had to come at the cost and the trauma of people that I hurt on Lost.” He then referenced Harold Perrineau‘s comments about the series, who has been vocal about the circumstances around how he was let go from the

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