 Rousseau is named after French-Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.Although Rousseau is French, actress Mira Furlan is Croatian, which led to speculation that Rousseau is not really from France.In one of the official "Lost" podcasts, producer Carlton Cuse joked, "any French woman who speaks with a Croatian accent and has been living in the woods for sixteen years eating bugs ... has got some issues, and those issues need to be overcome before she can actually go and embrace Alex".