Dec 04 2008
Will we meet Sayid’s father in Season 5? (slightly spoiler-ish)
Entertainment Weekly claims to have info that a casting call has gone out for three Arabic-speaking roles — a father and his two sons, ages 8 and 12.
That sounds like they are being cast to play Sayid as a child, along with his brother and his father, and that they will all appear in a flashback — assuming that the show will still be using flashbacks in this upcoming season. (EW says this Sayid-centered episode will be the 10th episode of the season).
I’d be very interested to learn about Sayid’s childhood. I’m also curious about whether Sayid’s father will fit into the mold of bad fathers that are so common on the show (a theme I will be writing more about soon).
So far, all we know about Sayid’s father is that his name is Hassan, that he was a soldier in the Iraq Republican Guard, and that Tariq, Sayid’s military superior, told Sayid that his father would have been ashamed had he known Sayid was helping the Americans.
