Matthew Fox on Why He Returned to TV After 12 Years for Peacock's 'Last Light' (Exclusive)
etonline.comMatthew Fox makes his return to television 12 years after the end of in the new Peacock apocalyptic miniseries, . The 56-year-old actor acknowledged his time away from the spotlight and why he chose this project, which co-stars s Joanne Froggatt, to be the one that marked his TV return.«There’s a lot of reasons.
It really came down to I had done a bucket list of things that I wanted to accomplish in the business and the one thing that I hadn’t done is I hadn’t done any executive producing and I really wanted to try that,» Fox, who serves as an EP on the series, tells ET's Matt Cohen. «I wanted to try my hand at it and and have my hand in more elements of the story than just the role that I was portraying.»«Obviously the story itself, the macro backdrop of the story [is] this oil crisis and this family at the core of it that is separated through this crisis and striving to get back together again and be reunited.
All those elements are things that I’m drawn to and I thought was a really interesting story to be a part of. There were many elements that brought me to it,» he says.
The five-episode series is based on Alex Scarrow's best-selling 2007 novel, and kicks off when the world's oil ceases to function correctly and all means of power and communication begin to fail.
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