Josh Holloway, who many know as Sawyer fromLost, has found a lot of success in his acting career, but not in the last seven years. In 2025, Holloway is finally making his big return to the screen with thenew seriesDuster, but it didn't happen easily, and he's now opening up about the struggles that led to this moment. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 In a new interview withThe Hollywood Reporter, Holloway got brutally honest about what the publication called his "Hollywood dry spell," with the actor saying, "I must have thrown the penny over the wrong shoulder and broke a mirror while I did it, because I had a hard seven years. Just hard — nothing was coming through." He finally got a call fromJ.J. Abrams, one of the co-creators ofLost, to work on the showDuster, a crime thriller series set in the 1970s. But even though he booked the job, it almost never made it to the screen. "That was right before the pandemic and then HBO was sold twice. But we kept making it through everything. [We wondered] 'Are they going to cancel us?' No, no. We kept chugging along. So here we are," said Holloway. He called the slow process of makingDuster, with many delays, "very difficult," adding, "It was a longest limbo I've ever been in." Holloway also stated that he had to be thinner than his regular weight for the character, and it was a challenge to maintain that look for so long. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Max (@streamonmax) Luckily,Dusteris finally here, with the show premiering on Max, or HBO Max, on May 15. Related: 'LOST' Actor Claims He Was Fired From Series for Unbelievable Reason