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 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 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."
I was booking jobs once, maybe twice a year."
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(On how unlucky he was when he first moved to L.A. to become an actor.)
Trivia
At around 4:30am on Wednesday, October 13th 2005, he and his wife were robbed at gunpoint in their home in Oahu. The robber took cash and credit cards as well as stealing Holloway`s Mercedes-Benz that was later dumped not far from his home in Hawaii Kai, which is about 12 miles east of Honolulu. They were shaken but unharmed. An arrest was later made in the robbery.
Has earned his real estate license. He said that prior to Lost, he had considered quitting acting; he earned his license to have something to fall back on.
Was offered the role of "Gambit" in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) but turned it down, saying the role was too close to his "Lost" (2004) character.
After going out of his way to lessen his Southern accent to get a wider variety of work, he had to pick it back up to play the shady "confidence man" Sawyer on the hit show "Lost" (2004).
Although born in California, his family moved to Georgia when he was a baby, and he still considers himself a "Blue Ridge Mountain boy."
Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World
Favorite foods are fried chicken and chocolate pie
Grew up in Free Home, Georgia
Had a successful career as a model until he got bitten by the acting bug and relocated to Los Angeles.
He`s the second of four brothers
While he says it looks "cool", he admits to hating the long hair he has to wear as "Sawyer" on "Lost" (2004).
. He may be happily married, but that doesn`t stop Josh thinking about the opposite sex. He tells us: "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 hungover." Form an orderly queue, ladies!
Josh admits that there`s a bit of Sawyer`s dark side in him - just a bit, mind. "There`s definitely an intense anger that I have inside, and I don`t know where it came from," he says. "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 and his four siblings grew up with their parents in Georgia`s Blue Ridge Mountains, where they lived in a trailer equipped with "eight dogs, two horses, cats, a cow, and a chicken".
Josh has a soft spot for actress Jessica Alba, but is not averse to more veteran stars. He confesses: "I`ve fantasised 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 made his TV debut as `Good Looking Guy` in Buffy spinoff Angel in 1999. Unfortunately his vampire character was dispatched by the hero in the opening minutes of the very first episode.
Josh met his Indonesian wife Yessica at a bar when he hit on her friend. "Right when I stuck my foot in my mouth and said something stupid I got tapped on my shoulder and there behind me was this beautiful little package with a martini in her hand," he remembers. "She looked me up and down and said: `Give me your number before you leave.`" The couple were married in 2004.
Josh was working on a new TV show called My Roommate`s A Big Fat Slut (yes, really!) when Yessica called to report that a fax about a new series called Lost had arrived. He auditioned the next day and the rest is history.
Josh worked as a male model before turning to acting and admits to taking part in some pretty odd photoshoots in his day. He recalls: "[I worked on] a pyjama campaign. The pyjamas had different animal prints and our hair was styled to look like the animal. I ended up with a cow print hairdo with little horns. It only appeared in Europe, luckily, so my friends didn’t see it."
Josh`s first job was shovelling chicken carcasses.
What did little Josh want to be when he grew up? Erm... everything. He says: "I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor..." We`re sure a TV star wouldn`t be too far down the list.
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