On the red carpet for tonight’s Emmy Awards, LOST star Matthew Fox didn’t reveal the title, but said that he will be doing a play in London next Spring. Other reports have attached the star to a new play by Neil LaBute, ‘second year senior’. The show is described as ‘During a stormy night, a brother and sister peel back the many layers of truth surrounding their lives’.

Nominated for an Emmy this year, in 2005 Fox shared the Screen Actors Guild Ensemble Award and was nominated for Golden Globe and Television Critics Association Awards for achievement in dramatic acting for Lost.

Fox appeared in the feature film Speed Racer, directed by Andy & Larry Wachowski, as Speed’s one-time rival, the mysterious Racer X, and he appeared in the production of Vantage Point for director Pete Travis. The thriller depicts the attempted assassination of the president from eight different points of view, and Fox and his co-star, Dennis Quaid, play the secret service agents. Fox can also be seen in We are Marshall, directed by McG.

Fox starred in the successful series Party of Five and has numerous television credits, including his starring role in the critically acclaimed series Haunted and the telefilm Behind the Mask, in which he starred opposite Donald Sutherland.

Matthew Fox graduated from the Atlantic Theater Company’s acting school.

Source: http://www.broadwayworld.com/

Unfortunately Matthew did not win a much deserved Emmy Award tonight. Bryan Cranston won for Breaking Bad. But he was there with his lovely wive Margherita and you can view photos in the gallery.

Newsweek Magazine has it’s own Emmy Roundtable discussion in the newest issue. Scans are in the gallery courtesy of DRbat

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is giving away money.

The group behind the Golden Globe Awards presented $1.5 million in grants to nonprofit film organizations at a star-studded luncheon Wednesday at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Eva Longoria Parker helped HFPA president Philip Berk hand out checks to film schools and groups that support film promotion and preservation.
The actress acknowledged she was slightly star-struck as she read from a script to present the various checks.

“This is hard for me, this teleprompter, because Nicole Kidman is sitting right behind it,” Parker said as she struggled with the transparent panels that flanked the podium. She decided to read from the screen away from Kidman’s table.

Kidman was among the stars who accepted the grants on stage, along with Bryan Cranston, Jane Lynch, Ryan Phillippe, John Slattery, Matthew Fox, Aaron Sorkin, Carla Gugino, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco and Annette Bening.

Recipients included Outfest, FilmAid International, the Museum of Modern Art, American Cinematheque, the American Film Institute, Inner-City Arts and 11 universities.
Berk says HFPA has given more than $12 million in grants to date.

The 68th annual Golden Globe Awards will be presented Jan. 16.

On the heels of his first-ever Emmy nom and his much-buzzed-about departure from television after 18 years, Fox is finally getting lost. Together with his wife, Margherita, and their two children, Kyle and Byron, Fox is settling into a 10-acre ranch in Bend, Ore. — a world away from his former life shooting the series in the Aloha state. He opens up to THR’s Leslie Bruce about his Emmy nom, his plans for a post-”Lost” future and, of course, that final episode.

The Hollywood Reporter: An Emmy nom at long last! Are you feeling vindicated?

Fox: I had no idea the awards were being announced that day, but it’s very nice to be recognized. I thought the show had a really great season, especially with expectations being so enormous. I think that’s really saying something. I’m just looking forward to partying with the cast and raising a glass to the show.

THR: The series finale met mixed reviews among fans and critics. What’s been your response?

Fox: Obviously, the show left room for interpretation when the white light poured through. I don’t pay attention to how it was received. Damon (Lindelof) told me the ending two months prior and I was extremely moved. I thought it was absolutely beautiful.

THR: Dr. Jack Shephard was essentially the show’s “everyman” character. How difficult was it channeling such an iconic role?

Fox: I put a lot of myself into him, so it was tremendously emotional. He started as the hero of the show and we thought the audience would be bored out of their minds if he were the knight in shining armor all the time. We wanted to take the first four years and destroy him. So, that’s what we did. And in the end, Jack redeemed himself before he could move on; I think that’s why I was nominated. It has more to do with Jack than anything I was doing for six years.

THR: What did the show’s first Emmy win in 2005 for outstanding drama series mean to you?

Fox: It meant that when the show won, a whole bunch of people jumped on the bandwagon that shouldn’t have. To be honest, people felt like they were missing out, so they came, tested it and left. Then it was perceived that the show took a turn for the worst, and it wasn’t. They weren’t ever going to be “Lost” fans.

THR: You have said that “Lost” will be your final affair with television. Really?

Fox: I’ve done 300 hours of television. I’ve spent 12 years operating between two characters — six years on “Party of Five” and six years on “Lost” — and I’m at a point in my career where I want more flexibility. I want to call my own shots: when I’m working and when I’m not. It doesn’t have anything to do with snobbery. Some of the best writing is on television right now.

THR: If you could step into the character of any of your fellow lead actor nominees, comedy or drama, who would it be?

Fox: Michael C. Hall’s role in “Dexter” would be very interesting. To play a serial killer in a lead role, that’s pretty cool!

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Guess who we just chatted with?!

We tracked down Lost’s creative brain trust Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof tonight to pass along our Emmy congrats (the recently deceased series received eight nods!), and between gentle sobs (literally!) of joy and loss, the one-time “radio silent” twosome opened up about life after the jet-setting phenomenon—just a little…

First, hi. It’s so great to be talking to you both again. And congratulations on the eight Emmy nominations! What kind of emotions go into a day like today—knowing it’s Lost’s final season?

Carlton Cuse: We never for a minute take for granted that we’re entitled to an Emmy nomination. Very worthy shows like Law & Order and 24 and Friday Night Lights weren’t nominated today. We recognize that pleasing the fans at the end of Lost was very tall order, so we were extremely happy and gratified to the Academy’s recognition for the work of everyone on the Lost team. It was especially gratifying to see that we got Emmy nominations for our really talented collaborators, as well.

Damon Lindelof: Emotionally, it’s been a much different experience than we’re used to because nomination day has always been on a working day for us. So we’d get the nominations in morning, I would come into Carlton’s office, we would hug, we would do a little bit of press and then we’d go, OK what is episode three of season four going to be? This is one of those days when you really realize the fact that we’re no longer making the show. We’ve always taken the month of June as a vacation, but the deeper we get into July without writing new episodes of Lost, the more it begins to sink in. It’s like, wow, we’re really done. It’s one thing to write the final episode and to see the final episode, but now that sense of really looking back on it and it’s really over—that cold, hard reality. In the stages of grieving, we’re now moving into the acceptance stage, and that is a wonderful thing, but there is a certain degree of sadness to it, too.

Lost received a lot of Emmy love today. Do you think the nods were based more on storytelling and acting, rather than honoring its final season?

C.C.: I don’t think you can get an Emmy nomination just based on nostalgia or longevity. If that was the case, Law & Order [would have, too.] What an unsurpassed accomplishment for that show to have been on the air for 20 years! That is stupendous. But we were extremely lucky and we remain enormously grateful to ABC for allowing us to end the show on our own terms. The key for Damon and me in doing so was that the story wouldn’t go on too long. That we could end Lost before people got tired of it. We didn’t have to stretch our storytelling beyond what we had imagined for the series. To actually get nominated after being able to do that has just made today an awesome day all the way around.

Had the two of you always intended on submitting Lost’s finale, “The End,” for Emmy consideration, or where there other contenders?

C.C.: It wasn’t a preplanned thing, but we’d written the finale and shot it and felt really good about it, and it was at that point we made a decision to submit that episode. It did feel like it was representative of our work, and it was the appropriate culmination of the show and might be the best thing for us to submit, so that’s what Damon and I decided to do.

D.L.: We certainly had a conversation about it, and we alternate playing devil’s advocate. The concern for Lost with the Emmys has always been that you don’t want to submit an episode that would make no sense to somebody who’s never seen the show. And maybe there were some self-contained episodes this season that would work better, but in the final season there are no self-contained episodes of Lost. Even in episodes like “Ab Aeterno,” it works because of three seasons of wondering who Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) is. So the conclusion was, if the finale is not the episode we should be submitting, then season six doesn’t really deserve to be nominated for an Emmy.

Have you spoken to any other Lost Emmy nominees today?

C.C.: I’ve not spoken to the actors directly. I’ve exchanged some emails with fellow nominees, but it is a little bit different this year because we’re not in the office, we’re not working, we’re not sitting down together having breakfast. It’s a little different feeling, but there’s plenty of love going back and forth between everybody on the show. It’s been a really celebratory day. The hidden secret of Lost’s success was the incredible alchemy between everyone who worked on the show. It’s been one of those days where we’ve been happy to have an excuse to be back in communication with each other.

D.L.: It feels like before [the end of Lost], the first thing Carlton and I would do when anybody was nominated for anything, we’d get on the phone and congratulate them. Because we were their bosses and that’s what you do. But we’re not their bosses anymore, now we’re just all friends who worked on a show together. And that started on finale night, when we all came together it felt like we all made the show together and there is not hierarchy because we’re not working together. We were able to drop the business-like attachments of the show. We were just able to hug each other and cry it out and be emotional and cool with each other. High school is over, we’re graduating, everybody’s going off to college, we’ll always look back at this time with tremendous affection—And [Sarcastically] I don’t miss it one bit.

Why break your radio silence now? Was that always the plan, too?

D.L.: It wasn’t a thought at the time. Every year after the finale we’ve always gone into radio silence just because we’re pretty sick of ourselves, so we can’t even imagine what everybody else thinks of us. And we’ve always broken our radio silence at Comic-Con, and this year we’re obviously not going to Comic-Con because it’s about promoting something to come. The idea of looking back on the show is not something we were particularly interested in, looking back at ourselves. But around a week ago, Carlton and I had both been on vacation and received an email from someone at ABC asking [if we would] be willing to do some press. And that was our first contact with each other where it was like, alright, of course. If the show gets recognized, it feels totally appropriate for us to express out feelings about how awesome that is. There’s no reason to not talk about Lost ever again, it’s just not in our DNA. Had the show not been nominated for anything, I’m sure Carlton and I would have emerged at some appropriate time over the summer to talk about—

CC: To begin begging for work at Starbucks. [Laughs.]

Before you go, we’d love to know if you have any other Emmy nominated faves this year—besides Lost, of course.

C.C.: I was very happy for Ryan Murphy to see how much love Glee got. It’s exciting that the show really feels like it’s in the zeitgeist now, and for us having been fortunate to ride that zeitgeist wave for awhile, it’s great to see that Ryan is surfing it, too. He’s a wonderful guy and the show is worthy of all the attention it’s getting.

D.L.: And also Carlton and I, and all the writers in the writer’s room’s favorite show this year was Modern Family. We would talk about it every Thursday morning. And Steve Levitan and Chris Lloyd are just really class acts, and everyone on that show is so sweet. Also, in the year Lost came about, it was Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy, and people were saying all hail the drama, and the return of comedy is dead. Since Friends and Seinfeld, there really hasn’t been anything. And now you look at comedy and there’s not just Glee and Modern Family, but also The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men, and comedy has never been bigger. Comedy is completely strong. And that’s not even mentioning 30 Rock and The Office, which are two incredible comedies. On the drama side, it was really cool see Matthew [Fox] get recognized as lead actor, but also to see somebody like Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton break into that mix. Friday Night Lights is clearly a show that’s gotten enormous critical acclaim, but just never connected with Emmy voters, and it’s really cool that it finally got acknowledged.

And that’s all, folks. Does you love Darlton more now, or do you love them more? And how much do you miss Lost, because those almost-tears on the phone were very real, and the mere sound of Damon and Carlton’s voices pushed up over the edge. In the best way, of course.

Source: http://www.eonline.com/

Big, HUGE congratulations to Mr. Fox for his first GREATLY deserved Emmy nomination for his role as Jack Shepard on LOST! Full list of nominees is here.

Jon Hamm, as Don Draper
Mad Men

Hugh Laurie, as Dr. Gregory House
House

Bryan Cranston, as Walter White
Breaking Bad

Kyle Chandler, as Eric Taylor
Friday Night Lights

Michael C. Hall, as Dexter Morgan
Dexter

Matthew Fox, as Jack Shephard
Lost

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As his hit series comes to an end, Matthew Fox looks to the future.

Somewhere, in a parallel universe, Matthew Fox is working on Wall Street. That was his original plan when he attended Columbia University, where he earned a degree economics. But through a combination of chance, perseverance, and fate, he ended up the star of the ABC phenomenon “ Lost.” Over six seasons, his beleaguered Dr. Jack Shephard has roamed past, future, sideways worlds to take on a smoke monster, uncontrollable time travel, and the literal and figurative ghosts of his father. Audiences have watched as Jack has gone from a man science and reluctant leader to a man of faith ready to embrace his destiny. Just what that destiny is will finally be revealed May 23 in the show’s hotly anticipated two-and-a-half-hour series finale.

As Jack’s story has unfolded, Fox has transformed. Previously best known as the eldest sibling on the soapy drama “ Party of Five,” the actor made a conscious decision to pursue different types of roles when that show ended in 2000. His complex, assured work on Lost” led to in films like “ Speed Racer” and “ We Are Marshall,” and he plans continue choosing roles that pair him with filmmakers he respects admires.

But where does one go after six years on a genre-defying, groundbreaking series? In Fox’s case, the answer is Oregon. After living on the Hawaiian island of Oahu “ Lost” is filmed, Fox is moving his family to Pacific Northwest where he can be closer to family and friends and kind of country that I love: mountains and big, big horizons.” He doesn’t worry about missing out being so far from Hollywood; he plans to commute regularly to L. A. to pursue the projects he’s passionate about.

But before that, he’ll be taking much-needed time off after his run as tortured Jack. “ Playing this role has been a challenge all the way along,” he says. “ I feel so proud to have been a part of ‘ Lost’ and so honored to have been given the challenge of playing Jack. It’s the most rewarding experience and the most amazing journey.”

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Asked when he first realized he wanted to be an actor, Fox pauses. “ I still haven’t had that realization,” says with a laugh. Growing up on a ranch in Wyoming, he never did school plays or harbored secret dreams of movie stardom. When he moved to New York for his freshman year of college, he was desperate for money to supplement his income. One day, he went to Barnard College to check out its job board and saw that someone was looking for actors for a Clearasil commercial. A SAG strike was taking place, and the producers needed nonunion actors. “ I had never even thought about acting before then,” Fox admits.

The audition, in his words, consisted of “ showing up.” He booked the role— and would like to clarify that he was not the character with the bad complexion. “ I wasn’t guy with the zit; I was the guy who made fun of guy zit,” Fox notes, before joking, “ I would have turned down the zit role.”

Despite nonspeaking role, Fox says, his first time in front of the camera was a nightmare. “ I really hated it,” he reveals. “ At that time, I was ridiculously shy and uncomfortable with any kind of attention. Plus, I didn’t have the foggiest idea what I doing.” However, the job caught the attention of the J. Michael Bloom Agency, which signed him. Fox made it through college on modeling and commercial gigs. But by the time he graduated, he had changed his mind about working in finance. His agent was encouraging him to take his acting career to the next level, which Fox interpreted as a suggestion enroll in an class. “ I don’t like to be bad at things and I’m highly competitive, so if I’m going to do something, I want good at it,” he admits.

After experimenting with different teachers and classes, he was drawn to the Atlantic Theater Company, having read a book on directing film by one of its founders, David Mamet. “ I’ve always been fan of David Mamet and his essays and observations about life because he has a pretty amazing ability to boil things down to their most concise,” Fox says. “ So I did a little research and found out he and William H. Macy had started this theater company. I kind of just knocked on the door and said, ‘ Hey, I want to be part of your theater company.’ They were like, ‘ Well, it doesn’t really work that way. But for the first time, we’re going to have a program where we accept 10 or 12 students to study alongside the company for a year.’ ” Fox auditioned and was accepted into the program, where acting, he says, “ really started to come together for me.”

The program involved a lot of scene study, and he believes it worked for him because Mamet’s methods simplified things in a way Fox could approach them. “ I need some sort almost scientific into something,” he says. felt I had been floundering a little bit, and I needed something solid to give me a foothold, which they gave me.”

Into the Oakwoods
Fox’s first TV role was on the NBC sitcom “Wings,” playing an all-American, 17-year-old baseball wunderkind. He booked the role in New York and flew to L.A., staying at the Oakwood Apartments, a popular location for visiting actors, for the duration of the shoot. It was a process he would repeat a few times, as he refused to leave New York until he had a more permanent job. “I never wanted to be that actor who moved to L.A. unemployed and kicked around trying to get work,” he says. The “Wings” experience was extremely positive, but Fox wasn’t thinking of it in terms of it being his big break. “I was still wondering if I could even do this for real,” he admits. “So more than anything it was confirmation that I could infiltrate this world, not make an ass of myself, and get paid for it. It was a personal victory more than anything.”

He then landed a role on a series called “Freshman Dorm,” which he refers to as “CBS’s answer to ’90210.’ ” Once again, he describes the role as “the all-American nice guy.” Though it shot in L.A. and was picked up for six episodes, Fox still chose to stay at Oakwood—a good call, because the show was swiftly canceled.

Two years later, he went to Vancouver to shoot the pilot for “Party of Five,” a drama about five siblings who have to raise each other after their parents are killed. Fox was cast as irresponsible eldest brother Charlie, an endearing screwup who becomes the de facto head of the household. When the show received its order for 13 episodes, Fox made the move west. “I just knew, on some level, that the show was going to work,” he recalls. “I don’t think I knew it would work for six years, but I felt we’d go past 13. And that would be a long time to be living in the Oakwood.”

Fox is proud of his six seasons as Charlie, though he admits the material wasn’t always something he responded to. “That was a great show, and it was written really well,” he says. “But for me it was a tremendously soft character and a show that, in my opinion, was written with the knowledge that mainly women were going to be responding to the show.” He understands why his character was written in such a way: “The premise of the show was this orphaned family and he’s the proxy father figure, so the minute he became a man and actually made good decisions and did things right, the whole conflict of the family was eliminated. So it was a challenging six years for me.”

But Fox was grateful for the experience and learned a lot working on the show. Still, he says, “When it wrapped, I felt I needed to disappear for a while, not take any other work, and let people forget about me in that incarnation. Then I could come back and change my appearance, shave my head, and play something edgy and tough. So that’s what I did.”

‘Lost’ and Found
Fox’s first step in getting people to see him in a new light was “Haunted,” a drama in which his ex-cop could communicate with the dead. The show didn’t finish a season, something Fox is now grateful for. “I loved the experience, but I was incredibly happy it didn’t work commercially, because it would have killed me,” he says. “I was working 70-hour weeks; I was nonexistent in my family and would not have been able to maintain that over a long period of time. I felt it accomplished what I wanted because the show got good reviews and I got good reviews and people saw me in a different context.”

When he went in to audition for “Lost,” little was known about the series, other than that it was the brainchild of “Alias” creator J.J. Abrams. Fox auditioned with sides for the character of con man Sawyer. “I don’t think I was actually up for the role; I think they were just using the sides to look at people,” Fox says. He ended up with the role of Jack, a character the creators had once considered casting with a movie star and killing off in the pilot.

When Fox began the show, Jack was the moral center of the castaways, a heroic type who drew a definitive line between right and wrong. Fox admits that he had concerns such a character could be, frankly, dull. “When we were shooting the pilot, [executive producer] Damon Lindelof and I were literally having conversations about how this would work if the show went on for a long time,” Fox recalls. “Neither of us wanted me to be the knight in shining armor for six years. That would have been a tremendous bore. So we set him up as that guy—he’s saving people after this plane crash, and people are looking to him. And then we spent four seasons destroying him.”

As Jack, Fox’s all-American good looks belied a darker nature, and the actor was a revelation from the very first season. In the fifth episode, “White Rabbit,” Jack struggles not to crumble while begging an airline employee to allow his father’s coffin on the plane. It was the first chink of armor in the fearless leader, and Fox executed the moment flawlessly. But as the show continued and Jack dissolved into an alcoholic depression, Fox admits the role wasn’t always enjoyable to play. “That period between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut’ sometimes requires you to put yourself through certain things that are the opposite of comfortable,” he notes. “I definitely take it home with me. There are people that can leave it all behind, but I find I’m one of those who has residual effects of the stuff I put myself through. Luckily, I have a family that’s very, very understanding about that.”

Asked if there’s a scene he struggled with the most during his run, Fox points to the finale. “There is some of the toughest material I’ve ever had to play in there,” he says. “But Jack is always a challenge; he’s always been evolving and changing. I’m so lucky that I never felt the character was static.”

Two weeks after his last day of shooting, Fox says it is still sinking in that the show has come to an end. And while he’s uncertain what the future will bring, he knows it likely won’t include a return to the small screen anytime soon. “I think the TV world’s probably done for me,” he admits. “At least in the traditional model. There are more short runs of programs and special series right now, and I feel like the line between television and film is going to get increasingly blurred. But at this point, I’ve done close to 300 hours of television. I’m just never going to get into a six-year relationship with one employer again.” What Fox is looking for, he says, is variety and flexibility. “I want to get involved in a gig for three to four months and pour my heart and soul into it, have a great experience, and then move on to the next opportunity.”

‘Lost’ articles
Over the years, Back Stage has spoken to many of the great actors on “Lost.” Here we look back at some of their comments about the show and their characters.

“We all had to audition not being given a script. We all had our own sets of scenes and we just went in with that one scene and met J.J. [Abrams] and Damon [Lindelof]. It’s been like that sort of ever since. Television’s very different from film. You don’t know anything; you’re really in the dark most of the time. I think that’s a good thing, because it seems that you’re discovering things at the same time as the audience is.”
—Naveen Andrews, on being cast as Sayid

“One of the things I’ve learned is I don’t need a backstory. I can be backstory-free or I can have 15 backstories; it doesn’t matter. I’m already playing Ben in a sort of neutral gear. All the places in a regular performance where you would insert qualities or nuances of your backstory, those places in Ben are supposed to be neutral. The point is, his past does not inform who he is.”
—Michael Emerson on playing Ben Linus

“This part has allowed me to do things that I’ve never done before, like run away from a burning plane wing that explodes behind me and dive down into the sand. Full-on action star diving out into the sand! And that is awesome. I never thought I’d get to do that. I thought I’d be wacky guys for a long time. It also gives me times when I’m not being just the funny guy—times when I can be a little sensitive or emotional or I have to take charge all of a sudden. So, one day, [when] I want to do whatever my Hamlet is—whatever it is, that thing—this job, I think, allows me to skip a few steps along the way, because I get to show a wider range of what my chops are.”
—Jorge Garcia, on playing lovable and laid-back Hurley

“On the page, she wasn’t particularly likable, but she was really complex and interesting. She was so strong yet weak at the same time. All of those things you search for when you’re looking for a character.”
—Elizabeth Mitchell on her first impressions of Juliet

“I was in the middle of reading a lot of film scripts, and I actually said to my agent that I didn’t think I wanted to do television until something really special came along. And I was blown away by this.”
—Dominic Monaghan, on accepting the role of Charlie

“People used to know me, and they would do that thing where they look at you and shake their finger and go, ‘Hey! Hey! Hey!’ Some people would recognize me from ‘Stepfather,’ which is weird because it was 18 years ago. But most people would say, ‘Do you shop at the Home Depot in my neighborhood?’ Now they just say, ‘It’s Locke!’ Which is funny…and nice. I’d be less happy if I didn’t think Locke was such a cool guy. But it’s okay to be Locke.”
—Terry O’Quinn on being John Locke, the role that won him an Emmy

“There’s so much secrecy surrounding the show that they literally send out false sides with false character names. I think his name was Jason in the sides, and all I knew was I was doing a scene on the beach with somebody. It wasn’t until the first day of shooting when someone said, ‘Yeah, we’ve been building this character up for about three years.’ I’m kind of glad I didn’t know that, to be honest with you. It might have freaked me out a little.”
—Mark Pellegrino, on being cast as the mysterious island caretaker Jacob

“I would love to continue on with Michael and Walt. As a fan of the show, I want to know what happened to them. Are they in the Bahamas? Did they make it? What happened?”
—Harold Perrineau, after his character Michael left the show in the second season

“I was on Sunset and La Cienega [in L.A.], and my manager called me and said that there was a pilot audition in my fax machine and I needed to go look at it immediately. I went upstairs, and she said, ‘Look at the director, look at the location, and call me back.’ I ran up there and looked, and it said J.J. Abrams and Hawaii. I went, ‘Sign me up.’ ”
—Ian Somerhalder, on being cast as faithful brother Boone

Source: Backstage Magazine

Matthew recently partisipated in a roundtable discussion with some fellow drama actors for The Hollywood Reporter. The video clips are below: