Matthew Fox Net » movies
Matthew Fox lets his roles in Vantage Point and Lost speak for themselves Matthew Fox is in denial. It’s not that he refuses to face up to facts, he just can’t reveal stuff. Certainly, Fox has to stay quiet over the developing plot points of the hit series Lost. And now he’s being sly concerning information on the Wachowski brothers sci-fifilm Speed Racer, which is set for a spring opening. In fact, he can’t say much about his role in the political thriller Vantage Point, either. The movie, opening on Friday, has Fox and Dennis Quaid portraying secret service agents who are protecting the president of the United States at an international function. After the president is assassinated, the incident is retold from eight different points of view, revealing much more than was initially evident. Fox hopes the film does well at the box office because he thinks the thriller is entertaining and comes with a clear cautionary message. “It’s unbelievable to me–and this is at the core of the film–how many people walk around in this world thinking their version of reality is the only one that’s right,” the actor says. Comments: 0
LOS ANGELES — 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.” Comments: 0
LOS ANGELES — Count reclusive Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski among Lost’s obsessive fans. So when it came time to cast the role of mystery man Racer X in their adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime series Speed Racer, they naturally braked for Matthew Fox. “I didn’t know Speed Racer at all,” Fox admits. “I went into the meeting (with the Wachowskis) never knowing anything about Speed Racer. I wanted to work with the Wachowskis. That meeting went great and I went home with a script and I got the source material and watched a lot of Speed Racer. And the script blew me away. Then I went after the role. I went back to L.A. and I really went after it. I wanted it.” Comments: 1
WHAT: PREMIERE OF COLUMBIA PICTURES “VANTAGE POINT” In Columbia Pictures’ action-packed thriller Vantage Point, eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Mathew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American tourist who thinks he’s captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for his kids back home. Also there, relaying the historic event to millions of TV viewers across the globe, is American TV news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver). As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place. WHO: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramirez, Pete Travis, Neal Moritz, Barry Levy, Tania Landau, Ayelet Zurer, Eduardo Noriega, Bruce McGill B-ROLL: Includes soundbites, red carpet b-roll & trailer. PHOTOS: Visit http://sonypicturespublicity.com, which will be uploaded with photos, following the event Comments: 0
When Matthew Fox began accepting movie roles in addition to his work on ABC’s Lost, he thought he might have taken on more than he could handle. But after his experience shooting the action feature Vantage Point, in which he plays a Secret Service agent trying to protect the president (William Hurt), he doesn’t feel so lost anymore. He offered his thoughts on a growing TV and movie career. Your Vantage Point character, Kent Taylor, has an interesting twist to who he is. Is that one of the reasons you wanted to do Vantage Point? Comments: 0
|
