'Lost' star shocked writers with swimming fear

Lost star Harold Perrineau shocked producers of the show when he revealed that he couldn't swim.

The actor, who plays Michael Dawson, was instructed to take a crash course before filming for the second season began.

"They like to hold part of the finale as a secret and last year the secret was that our boat was gonna blow up and they were gonna take the kid and they would throw us in the water - but we didn't find out until that day," Perrineau told WENN.

"I was like, 'Hey, I can't swim!' Suddenly you see the producers all freak out. They called me back and said, 'Before the second season, maybe you should learn how to swim because you start in the water.'"