Dominic Monaghan (Charlie Pace)

[Hollywood Heidi]

Some of you may recognize him as Merry from the Lord of the Rings series.  I remember what a big deal it was when the show first started and how many people said, "That guy from LotR is in it."

But anyway, I wanted to point out a fun fact.  In 1x06 House of the Rising Sun, Charlie says he has an irrational fear of bees and in actuality, Dom loves all creepy crawly critters.  If you look it up online, you'll see that he's had all sorts of them as pets (including a black widow spider!) and even now, he has his own show called Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan on television where he handles all kinds of wild life and creepy crawlies from all over the world.

While filming his show, a new species of spiders was discovered and was named after him; Ctenus monaghani.

[DarkSideCookie]

Wow, that is cool, though creepy for me lol!
But I actually thought as for a bee phobia, like Charlie called it in that episode, he was reacting kinda calm I think.

[Hollywood Heidi]

Another fun fact I just remembered about Dominic Monaghan and his character of Charlie.

After Lord of the Rings, Dominic had trouble finding work due to bad management. He went in to audition for Lost as just someone generic and happened to get lines that were for the character of Sawyer, knowing he wasn't really right for the part but he was actually interested in the part of the fading rock star who the show runners were billing as a 40-something aging has-been rock star.

Dom read for the part of Charlie and he was so great that five minutes in, Damon Lindelof and the other big wigs were figuring how to make the character much younger. So the character of Charlie went from a 40-something fading rock star to the Charlie we know and love in the show.