Quentin Tarantino loves LOST

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Maybe actor Naveen Andrews has been "Lost" on a hit television drama for the past three seasons -- but he's not so far out of reach that a huge fan of the show can't pluck him off the mysterious island for a few hours to enjoy a wild trip to the "Grindhouse."

The fan is none other than pop culture nut Quentin Tarantino, who along with filmmaking buddy Robert Rodriguez has effectively recreated the experience of the B-movie dives of the 1970s '80s with the aptly-titled "Grindhouse." The bloody, back-to-back horror thrillers -- with fake trailers thrown in-between the double feature for good measure -- opens Friday in theaters nationwide.

Andrews, of course, plays Sayid on "Lost," one of the pivotal characters on the show since its inception in 2004, and he's thrilled that Tarantino's been tuning in.

"I know that Robert was aware of 'Lost,' but Quentin was and is a big fan of the show," Andrews said in a recent @ The Movies interview. "He said to me at the read-through of the script that my character and Josh Holloway's character, Sawyer, were his favorites on the show. That was incredibly flattering. It kind of surprised me. You don't think you're a part of popular culture when you're an individual that's involved with it."

Obviously, Andrews was deeply humbled by Tarantino's observations. After all, the British-born actor never imagined the prospects of working with either the "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill" filmmaker or Rodriguez, the creative force behind such hits as "Desperado" "From Dusk Till Dawn" and "Sin City."

"I'm from England, so it's an honor to be even asked to come even come in and see those people," Andrews said. "They're outlaws. They work outside the studio system. When you're working, there didn't seem to be any producers around. They have the freedom to do whatever it is they want to do creatively, and some of that percolates down to the actors. We have today what were the auteurs to the 1970s."

"Grindhouse" consists of the Rodriguez-directed "Planet Terror," where a small group of survivors (including Freddy Rodriguez, Rose McGowan, Marley Shelton and Andrews) fend off an insurmountable army of zombies when an epidemic breaks out; and the Tarantino-directed "Death Proof," where a former stuntman (Kurt Russell), stalks and kills women with his car. Tarantino and Rodriguez's filmmaking friends as Eli Roth ("Hostel"), Rob Zombie ("House of 1,000 Corpses") and Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead") supply the B-movie trailers in-between.

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