Lost star Josh Holloway feared he was going to die while filming a risky stunt on the hit TV show.

The hunky actor plays James 'Sawyer' Ford in the Hawaii-filmed castaway drama, but a spectacular set-piece in the show terrified him.

He says, "The most exhilarating and frightening thing was the episode where I was on a raft that blew up."

"I was wearing steel-toed boots and jeans. I was supposed to be shot in one arm and have to swim quite a way through the ocean and then drag Michael (Co-star Harold Perrineau) back on to a raft."

"It was in the middle of the night. I thought I was going to sink and I felt like shark bait."