Hunky Rodrigo Santoro Gets Lost

By Garth Franklin Wednesday July 26th 2006 12:10AM

Move over Matthew Fox and Josh Holloway, you've got competition for the hottest man on "Lost".

TV Guide reports that Brazilian hunk Rodrgio Santoro will join the cast for its third season.

In his native Brazil he has starred in a variety of hits, most notably films like "Behind the Sun" and "Carandiru".

Santoro is best known to western audience for his small roles like a hot surfer/killer motorbiker in "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle", and Laura Linney's office crush in "Love Actually".

He also appeared as the man infatuated with Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's Chanel advertisement, and has a starring role as Persian Emperor Xerxes in next year's comic adaptation "300" (a photo of his startling look in that film is up at Devir).

Exeuctive producer Damon Lindelof says "On [Lost], what you see is never what you get... He's certainly not interested in being the hunk on the show, nor are we interested in writing that for him. Although I think when people start to see him and surmise what role he's going to play on the show, that's the place they're going to go to".

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