Leading Man who got Lost

MATTHEW FOX is the archetype of the all-American leading man.

He has the looks (he is tall at 6ft 2’, dark with a hint of salt and pepper in his tightly cut hair and designer stubble, and undeniably handsome). He grew up poor on a ranch in Wyoming, went to an Ivy League school where he played college football, before turning to modelling and then acting.

It sounds like the American Dream, but there is a lot about Fox that doesn’t fit the Hollywood mould. For one, he has been married to his Italian wife, Margherita for over 20 years. He starts by telling me about a trip they both took to Ireland in the summer of 1996. He recalls with great clarity flying to Dublin, driving to Galway and visiting The Aran Islands, which he read about in National Geographic. “It was so isolated and beautiful,” he says in his slow American drawl.