For a few years, we thought it was going to take over Hollywood. After all, He was the protagonist of the series that had revolutionized everything, ‘Lost’. From 2004 to 2010, Matthew Fox (better known as Jack Shepard) appeared on magazine covers, became the protagonist of theories and was pointed out by a thousand and one rumors. But then he vanished as if nothing had happened. And now, 14 years after the end of his series, we wonder… What happened to Matthew Fox?
A party of five
Matthew Chandler Fox was born on July 14, 1966 (that is, he is already 57 years old) in Abington, a small municipality in Pennsylvania that at that time did not have 60,000 inhabitants. His parents weren’t exactly famous: They were a teacher and an oil company consultant. In fact, Fox didn’t even dream of becoming an actor and graduated in economics at Columbia University while playing on its American football team.
His idea was to end up as a broker on Wall Street, but the magic happened: a friend of his mother was a talent agent which convinced him to act as a model in a couple of photographic reports. From there she went on to do a couple of ads. And finally, in 1992, at the age of 26, He got his first episodic role in the series ‘Dos en el aire’, a sitcom created by the same team that made ‘Cheers’ (and with different fortune, it must be said). An actor was born.
Fox toured different sets at the beginning of his career, participating in films such as ‘What a Dead Boyfriend!’ until finally, in 1994, He got a role that was going to change his life., that of Charlie Salinger in ‘Five in the Family’, the series that also discovered Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt. He appeared in every episode of the series, all 142, and It gained recognition among the public until its end, back in 2000.. Little did I know that four years later, and after going through the ‘Haunted’ series, he was going to make a big splash, completely losing himself.
Lost, lost
On September 22, 2004, the pilot of a series was broadcast on ABC that, without knowing it, was destined to change the way we all consume television: ‘Lost’. And Fox became the protagonist of an ensemble cast that had us hooked for years: He wanted the role of Sawyer, but he certainly wasn’t going to say no to Jack.
He is the actor who appeared in the most episodes (109 out of a total of 120) and along the way He was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe., won several Saturn awards and even a SAG. What’s more: he took advantage of the breaks in filming to appear, meanwhile, in films like ‘Hot Aces’, ‘In the Spotlight’ or ‘Speed Racer’. The future looked good until, At the end of the series, his personal problems and reputation crisis began.
In May 2012, and after a problem with a bus driver in Cleveland (a man hit Fox on a bus and he hit him back, something the driver took advantage of to blackmail the actor, apparently), Dominic Monaghan, who did of Charlie in ‘Lost’, he tweeted out of nowhere “He hits women. Not in isolated moments. Often”. Fox denied several times that he had hit a woman once, but it was too late. That he was arrested shortly after driving completely drugged did not help the popular trial.
Retreat
Matthew Fox, who, by the way, He has been married to the same woman since 1992Margherita Ronchi, with whom he has two children, participated in three more films (‘World War Z’, ‘Extinction’ and ‘Bone Tomahawk’) before making the decision to momentarily withdraw from the continuous buzz of Hollywood and dedicate himself to his other passions: painting and writing. In fact, he claims that he only accepted the role in ‘Bone Tomahawk’ because making a Western was on his bucket list.
Furthermore, as we read on ScreenRant, at that time I needed, yes or yes, become an important presence in your children’s lives again after focusing on his work for decades. He retired, dedicated himself to living life and doing the things he wanted until the opportunity came to work as an executive producer on the miniseries ‘Last Light’, which It also helped him, seven years after his retirement, to return to acting.
Evil tongues say that he desperately needed money (logical, on the other hand, after years without working) and that is perhaps why he got the bug and He was recently seen in the series ‘C*A*U*G*H*T’, which we don’t know here in Spain but where Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn also dropped in as themselves. Is this the return of Matthew Fox or We will see him again at intervals while he rests? I don’t blame him: it’s everyone’s dream, right?
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