Character
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in Lost (2004), played by Jorge Garcia.
Hurley is one of the survivors of Oceanic 815, a big-hearted guy stumbling into a nightmare with an odd mix of dread and dark humor. Convinced his life is cursed by numbers and bad luck, he keeps trying to help the others while quietly hoping this island might, for once, break his pattern of losses.
Garcia plays the show's conscience without ever preaching: he's funny, self-deprecating, and disarmingly honest about being scared. Against a cast of liars and schemers, Hurley's plain decency and jokes at his own expense make him the audience's way in — the one castaway who says out loud what everyone else is thinking.
Hurley's father disappeared when he was ten and did not return until Hurley was 27. During his father's absence, Hurley developed an eating disorder, and later a traumatic accident landed him in a mental asylum, where he started seeing an imaginary person. He was overly conscious about his sanity and weight afterwards. While employed at Mr. Cluck's, Hurley won the lottery by playing the numbers given to him by Lenny.
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Lost2004