After playing the eldest brother in the Salinger family on Party of Five, actor Matthew Fox went through a four year journey that saw him take a role on the short-lived UPN series Haunted before landing the part that propelled onto the world stage. Having played Jack Shepard on J.J. Abrams' gargantuan hit Lost for the past four seasons, Fox has been able to make the leap to the big screen as a film star during the breaks in between the series. After roles in Joe Carnahan's Smokin Aces, We Are Marshall next to Matthew McConaughey, and most recently Vantage Point with Forest Whitaker and Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox is now stepping into the world of Hollywood blockbusters after being cast as Racer-X in the Wachowskis' big screen translation of the classic animated TV series Speed Racer.

While doing press for Speed Racer, Matthew Fox filled journalists in on Racer-X, his love for cars, whether he hit the open road on Germany's Autobahn, doing sequels to Speed Racer, and his plans to leave the TV world behind after Lost has run its course.

Matthew Fox on his character Racer-X:

"I'm a masked driver. There are many rumors around him. He's very mysterious. Half the population thinks that he's a bad guy and causes accidents and is dangerous, and half the population thinks he's actually working for a secret organization that is combating corruption. Also, there are rumors that he's protecting Speed Racer on the track, and that he might be Speed Racer's brother who is supposed to have died years before in a fiery car-crash. So, in this film, we're not really sure who he is."

Fox on his degree of interest in motorsports:

"Pretty interested. I pay attention to racing. I've always really loved to drive fast, and I've always really liked cars. I've done a couple of projects where I've taken '60s vintage cars and modernized them into Hot Rods, not me personally but conceptualizing it and then having someone else do all the work. Right now I'm working on a 1950 Mercury Coupe, which is really going to be cool."

On whether he got a chance to speed down the Autobahn while you were filming in Germany:

"No, I didn't actually. I really wanted to. I looked into renting something I could take out but it got complicated because Warner Bros didn't really want me going out driving 150mph on the Autobahn. I did recently get a chance to ride a Porsche on the Willard Springs racetrack outside of Los Angeles with a professional driver who drives on the Porsche Le Mans team. It was absolutely a blast."

On whether he's always been infatuated with cars:

"I don't know. I've certainly always been that way. One of the first things that I wanted to be as a young boy was a race car driver, and I look at my own little boy whose six and he's very much into it too. He cannot wait for this movie to come out. Every single day he asks me when this movie is coming out. He's dying to see it, and he watches a lot of the original Speed Racer’s now. He's really into it."

Matthew Fox and what he drives in real life:

"Acura TSX. It's a nice sporty little sedan."

Fox on the challenges of working with green screen for so many months:

"There were challenges to it for sure, and the Wachowski Brothers, the first time I met them, outlined the challenges specifically - the process of this movie sometimes required doing scenes with an actor who wasn't actually there with me. Also, the technical challenge of playing a role that was going to be wrapped in leather and in disguise; doing fight sequences in that - which was incredibly difficult and I got very dehydrated. It was tough, but really rewarding."

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