Matthew Fox Net » gertiebethLOS ANGELES — Before the Oceanic Six, there was a Party of Five. It’s something Matthew Fox gets reminded of “a surprising amount” by fans of that mid-1990s drama, in which he portrayed the eldest sibling of five orphans. “What’s cool about it to me is that they want to let me know they’ve been fans of mine for a long time — ‘I’m not one of the new fans, from the movies or Lost. I believed in you from the very, very early stages.’ ” Still, he acknowledges the series, which co-starred Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt, was “not necessarily something I would watch … According to what I like tonally, it was a little soft. And I was playing a character who was pretty soft, and, in some respect, the version of a man that a woman would tell you that they want.” CANCELLATION Following Party of Five’s cancellation, Fox spent “two years where I wanted to let everyone forget about it.” He eventually headlined the darker but short-lived supernatural series Haunted. “It was really satisfying because it was what I wanted to do. But I was also a little stunned how fickle the business was because while it got a good response from critics, commercially it was a failure and the industry was a fickle bitch to me. “So I thought, ‘That’s interesting, how quickly that goes.’ So from there I went on looking for the next thing which was Lost.” Comments: 0
Every week we fall more blindly in love with him on ABC’s insanely popular series Lost, in which the 41-year-old plays Jack Shephard, leader of a group of clueless plane-crash survivors stranded on a spooky island. Up next he’ll star in a live-action adaptation of the animated 1960s Japanese series Speed Racer. Fox plays Racer X, the enigmatic rival-turned-partner to Emile Hirsch’s title character. The entire flick, written and directed by the Wachowski brothers (the duo behind The Matrix), was filmed in front of a giant green-screen; that means that the visual effects remain mostly secret–even to Fox. Though this busy father of two seems to enjoy keeping us in the dark, we got him to shed some light on a few of life’s other mysteries, like sex, skinny-dipping, and toilet seats. We Asked… Comments: 0
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Matthew Fox plans to leave L.A. after being ‘Lost’ in Hawaii If Matthew Fox looked a bit bushed at the “Speed Racer” junket this week, no wonder. He hopped a red-eye from Hawaii, after a late-night “Lost” shoot, to participate in the press promo this week. Here’s what the exhausted star had to say about living in Hawaii, leaving L.A. and what the heck “Lost” is all about. DR: Is it nice shooting “Lost” in Hawaii and being removed from all the L.A. craziness? MF: Absolutely. I think if I was shooting the show in L.A., I think it would be a lot harder. I’ve always sort of felt that if I ever reached a point where I had paparazzi following me around or posted outside my house, it would be time for me to leave. I’m trying to do the thing that I love to do and be a part of it and provide for my family and do it in a way that’s not jumping into their lives. And I think we’re doing a pretty good job right now. Every now and then something happens where my kids are photographed, which is just weird and upsetting to me, especially if I’m not there, you know? DR: What will happen after “Lost?” Will you move back to L.A.? Comments: 0
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