Just over a year ago, LOST fans were grappling with the revelations of just what “was inside the hatch.”  A manic, sleep deprived Scotsman with a proclivity for button pushing, some old music, a lava lamp, and a busted Apple II wired to a bank of ancient tape drives.  LOST fans had waited all summer for the hatch’s secrets to be revealed, and three episodes in they were still wrestling with the unlikely combination of sixties styling and steam punkish technology.  Thankfully, there was a film to explain it all.  The man on that film, Dr. Marvin Candle, would soon become a household name for LOST fans as he narrated to us through a tortured 16mm ‘orientation’ film that gave us a capsule history of LOST’s now infamous ‘Dharma Initiative’.  BuddyTV intrepid LOST explorer Jon ‘DocArzt’ Lachonis on a mission to find out the secrets behind the man who breathed life into Dr. Marvin Candle, and cemented himself as part of the LOST legacy, Francois Chau.

Do you have the sense that there will be more Marvin Candle in the future?

I hope that we will see more of “Dr. Candle” in the future, but I really don’t know. It’s wide open as far as the character is concerned. It’s up to the producers to decide if they want to make him more of a major player. The way it’s set up, every fan I’ve spoken to, thinks that “Dr. Candle” is the head guy behind the Dharma Initiative. Who knows?

We know that Marvin Candle is going to be seen on the island in Episode 20, was it cool to finally be involved in working with some of the other characters?

Yes, Marvin Candle is on the island. Without giving too much away, I can only say that I have yet to have the chance to work with some of the other characters.

Read the full interview with Francois Chau at BuddyTV