Interview with Matthew Fox!

Thanks to my occasionally super-cool day job, I was able to attend a press junket two weeks ago for Vantage Point and meet Matthew Fox. He mentioned at one point that he had been promoting the film nonstop around the world for the past three and a half weeks, which made sense because he looked exhausted, but...Matthew Fox! So much for pretending I don't get starstruck.

The conversation, of course, eventually turned to Lost. He doesn't say anything particularly earth-shattering, but I've excerpted it below. (Here's the full article.)

"I thought it was very possible that we would have to sort of scrap the rest of the year, and the [season's final] eight episodes would be moved on to next season's sixteen," he says. "So it was good news to hear that we were going to get back and get some of them done. I'm not sure exactly when I'm starting yet, I think it’s going to be around the middle of March, and probably shooting through the first week of May. I think we'll get maybe five or six of the eight that we owe, and then the remaining ones will be pushed onto next year."
It's pointed out that both Vantage Point and Lost deal with many characters and lots of different perspectives. "I have been getting that one a bit: 'You seem to be attracted to projects that flummox people.'" He laughs. "Personally, as an audience member, I like the types of things that challenge you to participate in them more than being a passive audience member. I think that's the best type of storytelling...and certainly, there is that parallel between the two."

Despite enjoying the challenge, however, Fox is weary of diving too far into the world of Lost that exists on message boards and blogs. "I'm a fan of the show in a big way, but I don’t participate in the life outside it. I mean, people say that [they do] all the time, and I think it's a real tribute to the show. It’s a show that makes people think, and hypothesize, and use their own imaginations to spin out the story the way they predict it's going to go, and I think that's a real tribute to really quality series television. But I've never personally looked at, like, any website – but I don’t do that with anything I’m connected with. I’d be afraid to."

With only two more years of Lost, is Fox planning on moving back to the mainland from Hawaii, where the show is filmed? That's a yes. "It's been a beautiful stay so far, and I enjoy it, but I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person. I grew up in Wyoming."

TAGS: Matthew Fox, Season4, Vantage Point
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