Development
After appearing in The Lord of the Rings, Dominic Monaghan was offered many fantasy-based roles. He was keen to portray a different role, so he wanted a contemporary part which had layers and an edge. Originally Charlie was an older rocker who had been a big hit in the 1980s but now had a heroin addiction. After the producers enjoyed Monaghan's audition where he read Sawyer's lines, they rewrote the part to make him a young has-been.
Charlie (Hieronymus) Pace is named after the Austrian theologian and historian Hieronymus Pez. This is in keeping with many of the characters in Lost who are named after famous philosophers and theologians, although the name Charlie Pace is also the name of one early member of the Branch Davidian sect that was raided in Waco, TX in 1993.
In a DVD commentary for "The Moth", Monaghan said he felt Charlie's black hoodie is some sort of "security blanket" that he hides underneath and uses when he feels "lost".
Drive Shaft was the fictional band in "Lost" formed by Charlie and his older brother, Liam. The band was named after the duo's great-grandfather "Dexter Stratton"; thus the DS initials of the group. In a Season One DVD featurette, "Backstage with Driveshaft", Dominic Monaghan cites them as a direct influence on the fictional band:
| “ | What I think Charlie gets confused with is this idea that being on TRL a couple of times in America and maybe being in the Top 20 and having a little run of things over the summer, he thought they were turning into the new Radiohead or the new Oasis or the new Verve. | ” |
Monaghan adds:
| “ | I think Charlie thinks that his band is a little bit more important than they actually are. He's under the impression that his first album was kind of like Oasis' first album. Y'know, critically acclaimed, didn't sell big numbers, but y'know, in the industry, people gave it respect. | ” |
At the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, Dominic Monaghan returned and confirmed that he would be back in Lost's final season as Charlie Pace for three episodes.
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