My choices going forward are going to be different. "If there are Lost fans out there expecting to see any version of Jack Shephard ever again - that was that.
But going to these other places, this is where he can really shine over time.''Īs for Fox, he just wants the great parts that are coming his way. " Lost shows a Matthew Fox he can easily access. "He's a definitely a little unhinged."Ĭohen believes this dark side will truly highlight Fox's acting potential. He doesn't know where he fits anymore," says Fox of his Z character. "What has happened in the world has sort of fractured him. He will, however, continue to explore the dark side on-screen, playing a Navy SEAL during a zombie apocalypse alongside Brad Pitt in World War Z, out next summer. Though former Lost co-star Dominic Monaghan kept the controversy alive with a tweet disputing that assertion, Fox says he's moving on personally. After five months of progression of changing my appearance, I never said, 'You have to be careful because you look like a Nazi skinhead.' "I know I looked scary, and that was something I underestimated at the time. He concedes that the incident might have been caused by his strange physical appearance. (Prosecutors did not charge Fox, and a civil lawsuit was later withdrawn.)
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However, Fox says his mental state had nothing to do with a real-life altercation with a Cleveland bus driver who said Fox assaulted her in August 2011. I would get back to the hotel room after a scene and do everything possible to take a break, to check out of it." He was very intensely internal."įox admits that his Picasso character stayed with him even after he stopped shooting each day. "There was no joking around, no relaxing between them," says Cohen, adding that Fox "stayed by himself on set. We didn't have moments where he was like, 'Dude, you look like a freak.' " "Those two guys essentially want to kill each other (on-screen). "We didn't really interact much, " says Fox. Fox and Perry even kept their relationship chilly to ensure their tense performances. That included a mental readjustment as well. Jack.' We were going where he hadn't gone before." When I saw him and how ripped he had gotten, I thought, 'This is no Dr. "I'm probably really pushing the limit of an actor with tattoos."Ĭohen says Fox wouldn't allow pictures to preview his initial visit. "I've been getting tattoos for a lot of years, and like a lot of people into it, it keeps building on itself," says Fox. As for the spooky and extensive tattoos seen on-screen? Those were already inked in. Many times I felt like throwing up."įor the final step in his transformation, Fox shaved his hair "pretty much to the bone" to present himself to director Rob Cohen. "Either I was wrong, or things have changed drastically.
I thought I knew my way around exercise," Fox says with a sigh. "I played college football (at Columbia). "I was craving all the things I love - pasta, steak, my mother's pie."įox worked on mixed martial arts training along with the intense workouts. "Some of the meals were very, very leafy," he says. He's not as thin today as he appears on-screen, and he enjoys the odd fry again, but he still focuses on his salad and healthy club sandwich. "There were no French fries, man," Fox says, moments after placing two fries in his mouth during a recent lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel. Perry finds a formidable on-screen opponent in Fox, who dug deep to find darkness.įox guesses he lost close to 40 pounds from his 200-pound frame during a five-month physical regimen before filming, incorporating weight loss as well as body sculpting. Neither is Tyler Perry, who plays homicide detective/psychologist Alex Cross in his first dramatic role - a film reboot of the best-selling novels by James Patterson. "They are so attached to the idea of that ( Lost) character and his ultimate goodness that to show up and see me doing this, well, they might not be happy." "There are people that are going to be horrified by this," Fox, 46, says with a chuckle. The baddie is Matthew Fox, who played noble Dr.
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Watch Video: Five questions with Matthew FoxīEVERLY HILLS - It will take a moment for even the most die-hard fan of ABC's Lost to recognize the scary-thin, massively ripped and totally insane serial killer in Alex Cross.īut when it kicks in, the realization hits harder than the mixed martial arts blow that the crazed hit man called Picasso delivers in a brutal early scene of the thriller, opening Friday.
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