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The first guy that popped into my head was (serial killer) Ted Bundy, mainly because Bundy looked like the last person on earth that would be a serial killer. I remember the first time Rob and I talked, he kind of described the guy to me. Q: Was the character you created totally from the script, or did you do some research into real life psychopaths?įox: I did watch a lot of stuff. But when you’re playing that stuff, it’s not like you stop and ask how’s the family.įox: He really brought a lot of good stuff into this film, and the interaction I had with him, the small bit, was really good and very positive and then we went about doing our work. We did have our moments to just have a quiet conversation. The few moments where it was the mano a mano fight to the death took several days to do and was really exhausting. In the movie, it’s just two guys trying to kill each other so there was never an opportunity for us to have an interaction beyond scenes where we were trying to kill each other. That was really driven by the nature of the film. Q: You and Tyler didn’t hang out much together off screen.įox: We never really made a decision to not communicate with each other. I really regretted it, but Rob’s really good at that kind of thing and gave (Tyler) what he needed. So I missed a few scenes where it was Tyler’s on-camera stuff of a phone conversation. I was working on (Marc Forster’s post-apocalyptic zombie movie)“World War Z” in London and traveling back and forth (to the “Alex Cross” set in Ohio).

Why?įox: All of that was driven by the fact that I was shooting another film at the same time. Q: You weren’t always together on set with Tyler for some scenes. It was a real challenge and I enjoyed that.

Q: Did it take a long time to prepare for this role?įox: It took about five months to get there, and then the shooting was just sort of maintaining where I got and there were a couple sequences in the film, like on the houseboat, in his sort of lair, and the cage fighting sequence, where the physical dieting and stuff like that gets ratcheted up a little bit right before those sequences. Rob and I talked about it and then I went to work. So that was the image that I had and I felt like I had to go for that. It would be more of this sort of intensity level in which his mind is working. I just felt like this guy’s-his philosophical construct that he builds for himself to rationalize his obsessions-would require an enormous amount of energy and would sort of look like that naturally. Q: What made you want to play this very dark, villainous character?įox: When Rob (Cohen) called to offer me the role I was in London doing a play there, and after I read the script, that was the image that jumped into my head.

That was sort of the way into the role for me. I was always curious about whether I could do something like that, and I proved to myself that I could. The physical weight loss was really challenging. (I spent) a lot of time in the gym and (had) just real commitment to it, and I didn’t cheat. It required five months of not eating the things I like to eat, and not having a glass of wine with dinner. Q: How did you prepare for such a dark role?įox: It was a lot of work.

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He also had the added challenge of filming the movie at the same time he was making another film in Europe. The 46-year-old lost a considerable amount of weight for the gritty role and shaved his head. The suspense thriller teamed him with action filmmaker Rob Cohen (“The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” “The Fast and the Furious”), who he had long wanted to work.

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He plays a psychopathic killer simply known as Picasso in the reimagining of James Patterson’s bestselling detective series “Alex Cross.” Taking over the role from Morgan Freeman, who portrayed the doctor-turned-detective in two screen adaptations, is Tyler Perry, who like Fox is portraying a character a far cry from his best-known role, the sassy and brassy Madea.Īfter reading the adapted script by Mark Moss and Kerry Williamson, Fox couldn’t pass up the opportunity to play the ruthless killer. The handsome actor is now on the big screen playing a decidedly darker role. (He has two children with his wife Margherita.) For a year he went home to Oregon and was simply a husband and father. HOLLYWOOD-When “Lost” went off the air, Matthew Fox, who played the heroic doctor Jack Shephard, decided to stay out of the limelight for a while. TYLER PERRY corners MATTHEW FOX in “ALEX CROSS.” ©Summit Entertainment.

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