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STARRING in Lost, possibly the most surreal television mystery since Twin Peaks, has made Matthew Fox a much better actor. Off screen, that is.

Matthew Fox knows how to keep a good secret.

He says he is forever pleading ignorant when fans — and sometimes fellow cast members — try to extract juicy details about the show’s many secrets from him.

And often, Fox says, he’s not giving those people the whole story.

The Channel 7 series about survivors of a plane crash marooned on a mysterious island has won legions of fans around the world and triggered countless theories about where the castaways actually are — purgatory, a computer game and a scientific experiment being some of the more outlandish suggestions.

As a friend of the show’s creators, JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof, Fox has occasionally been privy to plotlines ahead of time, but is sworn to secrecy.
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Smoke monsters? Ghosts? Pirates? Renegade researchers experimenting with wormholes and polar bears?

All minor headaches compared to the thorniest threat Matthew Fox and his fellow Lost castaways have faced: Namely, fickle fair-weather fans.

“Those were all bandwagon jumpers. Those were the people who would not have been Lost fans to begin with,” says Fox of the millions of viewers who bailed during the stormy sophomore season and had many observers wondering if the phenomenally-popular series would ever regain its momentum.

“We won the Emmy. We won the Golden Globe - and then we had a whole bunch of people jump on just because they couldn’t stand being left out and they weren’t really Lost fans to begin with.

“And they all went away.”

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