Lost boy Matthew Fox heads for bigscreen stardom in Vantage Point
March 2nd, 2008, 1:04 am Hobbies Ideas
What is reality? asks Matthew Fox, with typical simmering intensity. I think
we would all benefit if we walked around in the world a little bit more
conscious of the fact that we define our own reality, and that my reality is
not the only one.
Fox, the hunky 41-year-old star of Lost, is discussing the philosophical
implications of his latest film, a multiperspective assassination thriller
called Vantage Point. In it, Fox stars as a secret serviceman caught up in
an assassination attempt on the US President in Spain, an event that unfolds
cinematically from the different vantage points of eight key characters -
others include a tourist (Forest Whitaker) and a news producer (Sigourney
Weaver). It’s a pulpy, streamlined thriller full of popcorn pleasures, but
here, in a chic London hotel, it has provoked in Fox the deepest of
ruminations.
There are moments in my life when I feel very strongly that there’s an
absolute reality to what I’ve just experienced, he says, running a hand
over his smooth trademark crew-cut. But then somebody right at that point
will go, %26lsquo;No, that’s not the way I see it.’
It’s worth noting that Fox says all this with a cool, laconic gravitas and a
certain Marlboro Man chic. He wears scuffed black cowboy boots underneath a
rumpled black suit, has huge hands and a light smattering of stubble and, as
a native of Crowheart, Wyoming, is impossibly manly in that Midwestern John
Wayne way. Worse still, he knows it. I always had the sense that my time
would come when I was playing men, he says, reflecting on his current
white-hot leading man status - as well as Vantage Point he has snagged a
starring role as the sinister Racer X in the biggest blockbuster of this
year, the Wachowski brothers’ long-awaited Matrix trilogy follow-up, Speed
Racer. These are not young men I’m playing, they are not soft and
ill-prepared men. They are men.
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