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The Speed Racer world premiere will be Saturday, April 26th, at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. If you live in California or plan on making the trip to the premiere, you can find more info at PR Inside.
Matthew Fox finds he’s ready for a break from his hectic TV and film career LOS ANGELES — Somebody book Matthew Fox an Oceanic Airlines flight. After multiple movies and four seasons of Lost, the 41-year-old actor sounds ready to drop off the radar. Exhaustion? Well, there is that — on this day, he’s admittedly “dragging,” having just flown in from Hawaii where he’s shooting his hit drama about stranded plane crash survivors. But there’s also self-preservation and the dangers of overexposure to consider. “I think I’ve been in a lot of things and I’m really high in people’s consciousness right now,” he says during a sit-down with Sun Media. “With the success of (this year’s thriller) Vantage Point, I have the opportunity to put things in development right now so I can prepare for next year’s hiatus. But I’ll be taking a break this summer to let things settle.” LOS 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.” 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… Episode: 2008/05/09 about: Jimmy Kimmel Live: 2008/05/09 |
