LOST Star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Thankful Series Found New Audience on Netflix, "It's Wonderful"

LOST was one of the most popular and influential TV shows of its time, but after ratings attrition and a controversial finale, fell out of favor with mainstream audiences for a few years. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the long-running ABC series has been rediscovered by a new audience on Netflix , giving it a new lease on life and sometimes catching the creatives behind it by surprise. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje , who starred in the series as the enigmatic Mr. Eko, recently spoke with ComicBook on the red carpet for Netflix's The Union , and shared his enthusiasm for that dynamic.

"It's been introduced to a new audience, a new generation, which is great, because [often I have] totally forgot all about it," Akkinuoye-Agbaje told ComicBook. "It's like, 'oh my God, that scene with Mr. Eko...,' I'm like, 'Oh, I'm forgetting a new audience are now re-watching it.' It also happens when you go to other countries, because they're getting introduced to it. It's wonderful. That's why you do the work -- you want people to see it. And Netflix, you know, thank you for putting it back out there."

LOST has been enjoying a broader pop culture resurgence in recent years, with critics on YouTube doing in-depth analyses of the show , which was one of the first times a genre story with an elaborate mystery became super mainstream, water cooler-type conversation fodder. It also helped shape the next two decades of television by proving to TV executives that audiences were willing to engage with a complex -- often confusing! -- ongoing narrative on a broadcast TV series.

Getting LOST , a documentary about the LOST series and pop culture phenomenon from the director of The Last Blockbuster , is set to debut in Beverly Hills next month . The documentary features interviews with Evangeline Lilly , Daniel Dae Kim , Henry Ian Cusick, Emilie De Ravin, Nestor Carbonell , Josh Holloway , Terry O'Quinn, Maggie Grace, Jorge Garcia, Michael Emerson, Malcolm David Kelley, Elizabeth Mitchell, Sonya Walger, Damon Lindelof , Carlton Cuse , Jack Bender, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Michael Giacchino, and Larry Fong.

In Netflix's The Union , Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a down-to-earth construction worker from Jersey, is quickly thrust into the world of super spies and secret agents when his high school sweetheart Roxanne (Halle Berry) recruits him on a high-stakes US intelligence mission.

The Union will be available to stream on Netflix beginning on Friday.