Lost star Mathew Fox gets candid on why he doesn’t want to do TV any more and how playing a villain was fun.
Lost star Mathew Fox gets candid on why he doesn’t want to do TV any more and how playing a villain was fun
Do you think about what you’d like to do after Lost?
Mathew Fox: We’re doing two more seasons of Lost. I don’t say this because right now I’m doing both Lost and films. I have been working really hard nonstop for like two years. And after Lost, I won’t do television anymore.
Did you know the show was going to be such a big hit?
MF: I always believed in Lost, always, from day one, the first time I read the script and met JJ and Damon, I believed in Lost being something very special. But that does not translate to commercial success. What’s happened with the show globally has been incredibly rewarding, but was a surprise, yes, absolutely.
How have you coped with that level of exposure?
MF: For me, it’s that kind of global success is what’s creating these opportunities for me now, being in movies like Vantage Point and Speed Racer and the movies that I’ve done. But at the same time, there’s a certain loss of privacy that comes with that kind of attention.
Do you have viewing parties at your house?
MF: That was true for the first year. Now, we don’t talk to each other. When you’re all transplanted to a new place it’s all about making those connections. You don’t have any pre-existing relationships there, so you socialise together. Certainly my wife and I have made a lot of friends, if you have children, a lot of the times the people you’re hanging out with are people that you meet through your kids. It’s all about playdates and then you end up hanging out with those people, so everybody gets a life outside of the show. And suddenly you’re not hanging out together as a cast anymore. So, that’s the natural progression of things.
Did playing a villain attract you to this role in Vantage Point?
MF: There was an element of that. But that came secondary to me just really believing in the film. I’m fascinated by perspective in my own life. The human species’ ability for two people to look at one event and them both to perceive what actually happened differently.
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