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 did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.
I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.
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.
I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.
I had just done like four months of casting for the remake of Little House on the Prairie for a miniseries with the option for a series. They're going to try to re-do the series. I was up for Charles Ingalls.
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.
I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.
I know that the work is good and they're excited over at ABC and Disney and it's getting some really good feedback. It's not just a little, insignificant kind of role. It's meaty, which is good.
I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I'm kind of liking it over there.
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.
I'm a private kind of person.
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.
I'm so used to small actors, but there are a lot of big actors on this show. The other leading guy is 6, 2 or 6, 3. I'm 6, 1.
I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.
It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.
It's the beauty of movie making. It looks like there's a bunch of people, when there's really not that many people there.
Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed.
Snowboarding I still do. I still do all sports-basketball, soccer, anything with a ball I can play pretty much. It's my fantasy, always has been.
They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.
This has been a rare opportunity in acting that I have actually gotten to use the accent rather than try and disguise it.
This is the beauty of these writers. They only give you enough information to give you some insight, but then it leaves you asking more questions.
To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.
TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.
We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.
We want to keep the hope alive that we're going to be rescued and actually, even though we got that transmission, we still don't know everything. There is still a hope in all of us that we're going to get rescued. So that is addressed, and of course, when it's addressed, it changes things.
We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.
When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.
Josh voiced the PC/Xbox 360 video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Josh is 6'1?" (1.87 m) tall.
Josh's first job was picking up dead chickens at a farm.
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's favorite movie is The Shining.
As of 2005, Josh has homes in both Hawaii and Los Angeles.
Josh enjoys boating, sailing, snowboarding, martial arts, motorcross, fishing and playing guitar.
Josh has three brothers. One older brother, Brad, and two younger brothers, Sam and Ben.
Josh is represented by Rough Diamond Management.
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.
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