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 Matthew Fox
Interview By: Michael Dance To some people, Matthew Fox is simply another recognizable name, perhaps from his days on Party of Five or from recent films like We Are Marshall. To fans of the TV series Lost, Matthew Fox is one of the biggest stars in the world. Since 2004, Fox has been best known as Oceanic Flight 815 survivor Jack Shephard - and while Lost is an ensemble show at heart, if there was one main character, it would be him. Now in its fourth season of a planned six, Lost is still as strong as ever - but during the hiatuses, Fox is smartly using his newfound fame to transition to big-screen work. It seems to be working - his action thriller Vantage Point, co-starring Dennis Quaid, opened at #1 last weekend. He's even got a big summer blockbuster under his belt: Speed Racer, from The Matrix's Wachowski brothers, in which he plays the enigmatic Racer X. We had the chance to talk with Fox about the two movies, and of course his famous, perplexing, fantastic television show. (If you haven't picked up on it, I'm a bit of a fan.) "I didn't get to do as much research as Dennis because I was shooting another film right before Vantage Point and I had less than 24 hours between those two films," Fox says of his role as a C.I.A. agent. "It was kind of a mad schedule for me that summer working on Lost then doing these two films in the same hiatus. They had to compress my schedule because I was doing 6 days a week." Still, he was able to get something of a crash course on secret service agents. "I was talking to [director] Pete Travis and it was very important for me to get the logistics of these guys. The way they would choreograph this entrance. Where weapons were carried. The way communications were conducted, the positional reference around the President at any given time. So we got the mechanics, on an outward level, of the secret service guys as best we could." The film tells the story of eight different people who each witness a terrorist attack – a presidential assassination attempt followed by two separate bombings – from different, uh, vantage points. The structure provided some tricky moments during filming. "I think we all knew going into the movie that telling these twenty minutes of time from eight different perspectives was going to require certain sequences to be done over and over again. That podium sequence [in which the president gets shot] we did so many times." Despite the tedium, however, the repetition gave Fox new respect for his co-stars. "I remember running over William Hurt as the President being shot and falling, and every single take, no matter where the perspective was coming from, no matter where the cameras were, no matter how deep in the background we were, he was in it and alive in ... |
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