Trivia
- After years of people telling him to lose his southern accent, he went to his LOST audition trying to talk without an accent. The producers saw him trying to cover it up, and told him to speak with it. They then changed the role of Sawyer to a con man from Tennessee, instead of from New York.
- It took Josh practically 10 years to become where he is now. He landed small parts on shows (including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation). He was going to quit acting and become a lawyer after he got married, because he wanted to be able to support his wife. However he got the call for LOST right before.
- Josh is left handed.
- Josh has appeared as a face of Davidoff Cool Water worldwide, outside of North America. The first TV commercial and print ad for the fragrance first appeared In July 2007. The ads are still playing in December 2007 for Christmas.
- Josh was chosen as one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive for 2007.
- When asked which man on Lost he would sleep with if his life depended on it, Josh said Jorge Garcia, who plays Hurley, because he is "more cuddly than the others."
- According to TV Guide (Oct. 23-29, 2006), Josh makes $80,000 per episode of Lost.
- Josh voiced the PC/Xbox 360 video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
- When Josh went in to audition for the part of Sawyer on Lost, the producers weren't sure if he was right for the part. However in the course of reading his lines, he blanked, and in frustration and anger, kicked a chair across the room. He was later offered the part, the incident actually having helped him.
- It has been confirmed by Lauren Schuler Donner, one of the producers of all three X-men movies, that if available, Josh is front runner to be offered the part of "Gambit," in the new installment of the X-Men series when it is put into production. New characters are looking to be added, as it is likely Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, and Halle Berry will not be returning.
- Josh, along with the rest of the Lost cast, won the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series."
- In 2005 Josh was nominated in the category of "Best TV Breakout Performance" in the Teen Choice Awards. He was also nominated the following year in the category for "Best TV Chemistry" along with Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly.
- Both of Josh's parents have experience in medicine. Josh's mother worked as a nurse, and his father completed two years of medical school.
- Although there have been reports of Josh hating his long hairstyle he wears in Lost, he has since confirmed that he likes it, and thinks it looks great, but that it can be hard to work with in windy conditions.
- For their honeymoon, Josh and his wife Yessica went to Alaska for 18 days. They drove across the state in an RV, and spent lots of time fishing.
- In January 2006, Josh was voted the 'hottest hunk' on television by the magazine In Touch and was ranked 17th in a poll for "Sexiest Guy Worldwide" by OK!
- Josh was one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive, 2006. He is found in the "Sexy Surroundings" section.
- Josh and his Lost co-stars, Matthew Fox and Dominic Monaghan, have been reported to go skinny dipping after shooting scenes and during filming breaks. The producers of the show have since banned them from doing so, in fear that photographers will catch them, and tarnish their image, as well as the shows.
- After going out of his way to lessen his Southern accent to get a wider variety of work, Josh had to pick it back up to play Sawyer on the hit show Lost.
- Josh is 6'1½" (1.87 m) tall.
- Josh has green eyes.
- Josh's first job was picking up dead chickens at a farm.
- Josh is of Dutch and Scottish heritage.
- Josh's debut into television was as a guest star on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, Angel. He played the part of a vampire Angel kills in the opening minutes of the first episode.
Two of Josh's co-stars on Lost, Sam Anderson and Daniel Dae Kim, had recurring roles in the show. - Josh enjoys fried chicken and chocolate pie.
- Josh's favorite movie is The Shining.
- Josh lists his favorite color as dark blue.
- As of 2005, Josh has homes in both Hawaii and Los Angeles.
- Josh has been an avid movie watcher since he was a child.
- Josh enjoys boating, sailing, snowboarding, martial arts, motorcross, fishing and playing guitar.
- Josh studied at the University of Georgia but dropped out after only one year to become a model.
- Josh has three brothers. One older brother, Brad, and two younger brothers, Sam and Ben.
- Josh and his wife Yessica were robbed at gunpoint at 4:30 a.m. of October 13, 2005. They were unhurt, but the robber got away with credit cards, cash, jewelry, and drove off in Josh's Mercedes-Benz. Ruben Royce, a 21-year old felon that lived nearby, has since been arrested and identified by Josh as the man who committed the robbery. Royce had prior convictions for car theft, and is being indicted for other home invasions and an attempted second-degree murder. Royce faces a potential life prison term for his actions. Since the robbery, Josh and his wife have installed a home security system.
- Josh is represented by Rough Diamond Management.
- Josh was voted one of People Magazine's "Most Beautiful People" in 2005.
- Josh has appeared as the main feature on the cover of TV Guide three times to date. The issue dates for the covers are January 30, 2005, April 3, 2005, and October 2, 2006.
- In 1994, Josh played a purse snatcher in the music video for Aerosmith's hit Cryin'.
Quotes
- Josh: If I were single, I’d have one girl doing my laundry, one shaving me, one bringing me a cocktail and another one coming out of my tent all hung-over.
- Josh: (on his character, Sawyer, in “Lost”) He’s the kind of guy I would not tolerate in the real world. I don’t have any respect for people who treat other people like that…. I love playing someone I wouldn’t tolerate in real life. That’s not how I live, so it’s a release for me.
- Josh: I’ve fantasized about Barbra Streisand and I saw Sophia Loren at a restaurant a couple of years ago and I thought, ‘Wow, I’d still go there.’
- Josh: (revealing he believes the cast of “Lost” are being targeted by the police) First of all we're on an island which means it's very easily patrolled. And we happen to be famous. I told them they should be embarrassed about giving me a ticket for doing 53 in a 35 zone. I mean, come on! Go catch real criminals!
- Josh: (on Kate and Sawyer's relationship) They've hooked up and knowing his personality he's probably going to mess it up, so they'll be back to on and off. Who knows?
- Josh: (on his wife Yessica) She always grabs the script from me and locks the bathroom door and reads it because we're still that intrigued with it. It still wows us.
- Josh: (On the writers of "Lost") They've really been wanting a beginning, middle, and end to this story. They don't want it to go too long and get watered down and not be good.
- Josh: (referring to the tourists in Hawaii) There the men go, 'Love your work, bro,' and that's about it. I like that. Where tourists, they've already got the camera out, like, ‘Hey!'”
- Josh: (on Evangeline Lilly) Our friendship is deep. We've been working together constantly and having to discuss these things and how we're going to do them, so it's good.
- Josh: (referring to Sawyer's relationship with Kate on "Lost") It's been fun because neither of us really know where it's going, so we don't know exactly what to fully invest in which actually plays on camera. It's nice kind of not knowing. One minute we're really kind of close and sappy and the next minute like, ‘What the?’ It's that thing.
- Josh: In order to break through the movie thing, you've got to burn through that atmosphere and it's hard. You've got to work all year at this pace that Lost is; it's a fierce pace and you're constantly doing something.
- Josh: (referring to his wife on how he kisses other women on "Lost") Thank god she is confident and secure in our love. It's not an issue in our relationship and it should not be. It's my job.
- Josh: I love to laugh and play and have fun. Do I have some of that bad boy in me? Hell, yeah. There's definitely an intense anger that I have inside, and I don't know where it came from. I've had it all my life. My mom was always like, 'You're going to end up in jail with that temper!' Now I use that to help me.
- Josh: (referring to his character, Sawyer, on "Lost") He cons women and preys on them, and he's very good at it. But on the island, he's fighting with his own humanity. He's faced with himself and doesn't like what he sees.
- Josh: (referring to Sawyer, his character on "Lost") I get the script, and I'm like, 'Oh, no, he's even worse. Oh, no.' You want him to be better, right? I want him to be redeemed, and it's just not the nature of the character.
- Josh: (referring to "Lost") I don't want to go anywhere. I'm loving what's going on with the show and we live here now and we're settled in.
- Josh: The first year, I was a lot more nervous to start with. I was trying to understand the character and figure out a way to find his humanity while keeping him hard, but really working that line the first year. The second year I really felt comfortable in his skin, and then it became a challenge of I'd never been in the position of slowly deteriorating health, so that was a large part of last year.
- Josh: I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I'm kind of liking it over there.
- Josh: I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.
- Josh: Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
- Josh: (on his role in the movie, “Whisper“) I chose that role because it was the opposite [his role in Lost]. The character I play is a bad person with a good heart and I thought it would be interesting to play a more heroic character.
- Josh: (on how he’d like Sawyer to leave the series, “Lost“) In the current atmosphere of TV shows the writers are willing to kill a main character without any problem. So that's a possibility. But when it happens, I want a big, bloody Braveheart-style battle. I want Sawyer to die badly!
- Josh: (on his character on Lost) I don't even want Sawyer to lose his edge. Edge and a tiny inkling of humanity.
- Josh: I’m looking to do a really different role next, more of a character who maybe even keeps his shirt on most of the time.
- Josh: I've been a fan of Adewale's for a while. I followed him on Oz, loved him in that, and I couldn't wait to meet the guy. And the first time I met him... he smacks me in the face with a stick--that's our introduction!
- Josh: (About Sawyer's vulnerability in season 2) I loved trying to keep his bravado--even when he is going down, he is still being a smart ass!
- Josh: (about the tree frog scene on Lost) It shows you how Sawyer approaches the power struggle on the island. His whole idea is keeping people afraid of him a little bit. So the way I interpreted that scene was like this: That little frog actually affected me. 'Hey, happy little fella!' Hurley saw that. And I saw him see that. And I was like, 'Uh-oh, I'm vulnerable,' and that was that. SPLAT. Enough of that. He got a look at my vulnerability, and that was enough of that. But that was a hard scene. I wanted Sawyer's motivations to be clear--that Sawyer felt like he had been exposed, and had to do something about it--but I don't feel it was definitive enough. He couldn't sleep. He was a little edgy. And he had just taken all the guns, and it was established he was living in this 'f--- you' state with his community. So he's in this edgy, power-play place. So to show a little vulnerability, at this point? No way. He had to take that back from Hurley.
- Josh: That's why I make the money and my wife does all the paperwork. Details! I'm not the details guy.
- Josh: I think this whole island is like a working machine, and it's mobile, like the Death Star. And that one thing, the button, keeps it from becoming the ultimate weapon. Or whatever.
- Josh: (on his Lost character, Sawyer) I love the writing of this character. He's not dumb, but they've kept him naïve in a way. There's some innocent ignorance mixed with real intelligence.
- Josh: (after his house was robbed in October 2005) My family and I are fine and appreciate everyone's concerns and good thoughts... We are very grateful for the help of the Honolulu Police Department and the support of the local community.
- Josh: (about his "Lost" character, Sawyer) There's a difference between being the guy you love to hate, and the guy you just frikkin' hate!
- Josh: I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.
- Josh: I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.
- Josh: Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.
- Josh: I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.
- Josh: I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.
- Josh: I'm a fickin' romantic. I can't help it. Love is huge to me. I've found that, and it's awesome.
- Josh: (On his feelings for his "Lost" character, Sawyer) Sawyer's a guy I would not tolerate in the real world. I don't have any respect for people who treat other people like that. I would beat his ass in a second.
- Josh: Sometimes, I like to come out by myself, turn the boat off and just chill. How big Lost has gotten, it freaks me out sometimes. I gotta get away.
- Josh: When Lost took off, part of me thought, 'Do I cut and run?' I still like to look around, but respectfully and with no intentions. 'Married, not buried', I always say. If I were single?... Damn, I'd have one girl doing my laundry, one shaving me, one bringing me a cocktail and another one coming out of my tent all hung over.
