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Boston Herald Inteview iwth Matthew Fox
LOST without Jack!?
After spending last week in New York City to host Saturday Night Live, Fox flew into Boston on Monday night to begin his promotional efforts for his Dec. 22 movie, the moving true story We Are Marshall. His first interview was with the Herald.
The movie gave Fox a chance not only to star in a major motion picture, but also know exactly what happens to his character, something he’s never really known with Lost.
FOX: “(Executive producers) Damon Lindelof and J.J. (Abrams), Bryan Burk and Carlton (Cuse). Those guys are doing a phenomenal job with Lost I think, and if you had asked me 2½ years ago when I had done the pilot, ‘Would we be telling the types of stories that we are right now?’ I would’ve said, ‘Thematically? Absolutely.’ I saw in the pilot the possibility for really, really cool philosophical questions and dealing with those questions on the show. But would I have told you the specifics of where we would be right now? I wouldn’t have known the foggiest idea of the specifics.”
HERALD: I don’t think any of us would have known, though.
FOX: “Except for them.”
HERALD: The Others?
FOX: “No, the elevator. That was the idea of the elevator (a sketch on SNL in which fans bombard Fox with theories about the show)…’You guys got no idea where it’s going!’ I love Fred Armisen. He is freaking awesome…I laughed more this last week. I had a ball. Was cracking up all the time.”
HERALD: When do you go back to Hawaii?
FOX: “Actually the show is shooting. I can’t tell you why, but I have had a little reprieve from the show. I hear there’s rumors out there that I’ve been killed off the show. Which I love that. I love the fact that anytime, they’ll take the tiniest little kernel of, Matthew Fox shows up in New York and ‘He’s been killed off Lost!’
HERALD: Well, Ben did offer Jack a chance to leave the island(s) and return to the rest of the world.
FOX: “Oh, well, yes, I think that Jack is still, he’s still very, he’s adamantly going to try to get Ben to keep that promise, although I think that Jack also feels that death is right around the corner for him. I feel like he doesn’t trust any of these people very far, and so he’s really in this weird world of being completely isolated and not knowing what’s next for him.”
HERALD: So when do you go back?
FOX: “I get back to Hawaii, on the 15th, after the (movie) premiere. I’ll have a nice long Christmas break and get back to working on the show after the first of the year.”
Fox also offered a defense of ABC’s decision to have a “Fall Finale” for the show, with a complete break until February.
FOX: “I think it gives the audience more traction. I mean, yeah, I think the audience was a little bummed when they saw that sixth episode and they were like (hearing the voiceover) ‘The show won’t be back until February.’ I think they were a little upset about that. But I think when they realize that the tradeoff is, when the show is on, they get a new episode every week. And they’re not going to have to do that thing they did last year, which was ‘We get one and then we wait two weeks. Oh my God, there was a new one on last night? I didn’t even know!’ You know, that whole thing. So I think it gives the show a lot more traction and momentum. I think it was a good choice by (ABC Entertainment President) Steve McPherson.”
HERALD: But we’ll still have to wait until February.
FOX: “It’s going to be a good year. There’s some really cool stuff coming up.”
Chew on that, why don’t you. Certainly, the show’s third season has devoted all of its energy on The Others, and viewers still aren’t entirely sure what happened when the hatch imploded and what’s happening at the beach where the series began. So it could be as simple as that. Then again, nothing about Lost has been quite that simple.
The movie gave Fox a chance not only to star in a major motion picture, but also know exactly what happens to his character, something he’s never really known with Lost.
FOX: “(Executive producers) Damon Lindelof and J.J. (Abrams), Bryan Burk and Carlton (Cuse). Those guys are doing a phenomenal job with Lost I think, and if you had asked me 2½ years ago when I had done the pilot, ‘Would we be telling the types of stories that we are right now?’ I would’ve said, ‘Thematically? Absolutely.’ I saw in the pilot the possibility for really, really cool philosophical questions and dealing with those questions on the show. But would I have told you the specifics of where we would be right now? I wouldn’t have known the foggiest idea of the specifics.”
HERALD: I don’t think any of us would have known, though.
FOX: “Except for them.”
HERALD: The Others?
FOX: “No, the elevator. That was the idea of the elevator (a sketch on SNL in which fans bombard Fox with theories about the show)…’You guys got no idea where it’s going!’ I love Fred Armisen. He is freaking awesome…I laughed more this last week. I had a ball. Was cracking up all the time.”
HERALD: When do you go back to Hawaii?
FOX: “Actually the show is shooting. I can’t tell you why, but I have had a little reprieve from the show. I hear there’s rumors out there that I’ve been killed off the show. Which I love that. I love the fact that anytime, they’ll take the tiniest little kernel of, Matthew Fox shows up in New York and ‘He’s been killed off Lost!’
HERALD: Well, Ben did offer Jack a chance to leave the island(s) and return to the rest of the world.
FOX: “Oh, well, yes, I think that Jack is still, he’s still very, he’s adamantly going to try to get Ben to keep that promise, although I think that Jack also feels that death is right around the corner for him. I feel like he doesn’t trust any of these people very far, and so he’s really in this weird world of being completely isolated and not knowing what’s next for him.”
HERALD: So when do you go back?
FOX: “I get back to Hawaii, on the 15th, after the (movie) premiere. I’ll have a nice long Christmas break and get back to working on the show after the first of the year.”
Fox also offered a defense of ABC’s decision to have a “Fall Finale” for the show, with a complete break until February.
FOX: “I think it gives the audience more traction. I mean, yeah, I think the audience was a little bummed when they saw that sixth episode and they were like (hearing the voiceover) ‘The show won’t be back until February.’ I think they were a little upset about that. But I think when they realize that the tradeoff is, when the show is on, they get a new episode every week. And they’re not going to have to do that thing they did last year, which was ‘We get one and then we wait two weeks. Oh my God, there was a new one on last night? I didn’t even know!’ You know, that whole thing. So I think it gives the show a lot more traction and momentum. I think it was a good choice by (ABC Entertainment President) Steve McPherson.”
HERALD: But we’ll still have to wait until February.
FOX: “It’s going to be a good year. There’s some really cool stuff coming up.”
Chew on that, why don’t you. Certainly, the show’s third season has devoted all of its energy on The Others, and viewers still aren’t entirely sure what happened when the hatch imploded and what’s happening at the beach where the series began. So it could be as simple as that. Then again, nothing about Lost has been quite that simple.
SOURCE: Boston Herald - December 6, 2006
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