“Lost” returns tonight on ABC at a new time (10/9c) with six new hours that climax with the two-part finale (5/15 and 5/29). ComingSoon.net got a chance to talk to Matthew Fox, who plays Jack, during the press day for Speed Racer.

Asked about whether the flash forwards and knowing the end date of the series has changed how he approaches work, Fox said, “Not really. Not that much. No. You know we’re going to catch up with the flash forwards here in this year and then we’ll be back and it’s going to be really interesting to see how time is structured in season five. But we will have closed those two points – the finale of last year where you had that juxtaposition of him on the island feeling like he’d finally accomplished rescue and this future where he’s desperate and at the pit of despair and feels like he has to go back and we don’t know why and what’s transpired in between. We will have closed that thing and so we will have gotten back into a situation where we’ll be in the present.”

How much gets resolved in the finale?

“Huge, huge stuff. We’re shooting pretty much three episodes. It’s really like a three-episode finale that we’re shooting simultaneously. It’s huge.”

And will more questions be answered? “There will be huge things answered. Yes.”

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Lost actor Matthew Fox has wrecked his clean-cut image by confessing his drug-taking past. Speaking to British movie magazine Empire, Fox admits he has taken “plenty of illegal narcotics,” regularly breaks the law, and is a secret naturist.

He says, “I break the law all the time! I’ve done plenty of illegal narcotics, but I think everyone knowingly breaks the law pretty often, don’t they? I can’t imagine living my life abiding by the law completely. That’d be tough to do.

“My wife and I traveled to Jamaica 15 years ago. Oh God, it was a crazy trip! We stayed in this little bungalow out on the water, baked out of our minds for the first three days. We were just so stoned! And then we got sick and proceeded to continue to get stoned because that makes you feel better.”

Fox adds of his love of being naked: “I’m naked outdoors a lot – I live in Hawaii – if naked outdoors means walking out to the pool naked and jumping in and walking back inside.”

Matthew Fox has apparently confessed he breaks the law all the time.

The Lost star claims he is always taking illegal narcotics, but insists everyone breaks the law.

Matthew told Empire magazine: “I break the law all the time! I’ve done plenty of illegal narcotics, but I think everyone knowingly breaks the law pretty often, don’t they? I can’t imagine living my life abiding by the law completely. That’d be tough to do.

“My wife and I travelled to Jamaica 15 years ago. Oh God, it was a crazy trip! We stayed in this little bungalow out on the water, baked out of our minds for the first three days. We were just so stoned! And then we got sick and proceeded to continue to get stoned because that makes you feel better.”

Matthew and his wife, former Italian runway model Margherita Ronchi met at Colombia University. They married in 1991 and have two children, nine-year-old daughter Kyle and six-year-old son Byron. They all live in Hawaii while Matthew films the hit TV series, and he revealed he enjoys a very laid-back lifestyle.

He said: “I’m naked outdoors a lot — I live in Hawaii — if naked outdoors means walking out to the pool naked and jumping in and walking back inside.”

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Seven and a half months later, we’re still picking brain matter off the wall. There we were, innocently watching Lost’s season 3 finale on May 23, trying to figure out the direction of the flashback sequence in which Dr. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) had become an oxycodone addict/Grizzly Adams look-alike, when suddenly…WTF?! This is a flash-forward?! He and Kate (Evangeline Lilly) are both off the island?! Wait…now he wants to go back? This stunning episode — in which Jack led the castaways to near rescue (or not, depending on those freighter folks), and Dominic Monaghan’s Charlie embraced his watery fate — represented a return to glory for ABC’s acclaimed island drama, which had left critics and fans disgruntled earlier in the season. It also marked another potent acting performance by Fox, 41, who’s served as a Lost leader, on screen and off, ever since Flight 815 crashed in 2004. ”I felt, and heard many other cast members say, that the show had hit a new plateau — and that Matthew in particular had gone there with it,” says Michael Emerson, who plays Jack’s eerie nemesis, Ben.

During a strike-created break from shooting season 4 — eight episodes were completed before the shutdown — we caught up with Fox (who also stars in next month’s political thriller Vantage Point) near his Manhattan Beach, Calif., home. He looked back at the finale as well as the producers’ decision to end Lost for good after 48 more episodes, and even offered us a peek into the future before the series returns on Jan. 31 (now on Thursdays at 9 p.m. — set those DVRs!). ”I think the show’s going to be better in its last three seasons than it was in the first three,” he notes, adding, ”There’s going to be some huge mind-blowing s—.” You heard the man: Helmets on. (And for more clues about how Lost will play out from here, don’t miss EW.com’s video interview with Matthew Fox, including behind-the-scenes footage from his on-the-beach photo shoot for Entertainment Weekly.)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was your first reaction to the big twist in the season finale?
MATTHEW FOX: Something like ”Holy s—!” It really caught me off guard. I’m not sure I ever thought that people were going to get off the island…. Damon [Lindelof, who co-wrote the finale with fellow exec producer Carlton Cuse] did such an amazing job of orchestrating something that when you’re looking at it for the first time it feels like a flashback, but there’d be little things that are a little odd — like why Jack seems so ridiculously messed up. You think it’s in relationship to his marriage falling apart, and then boom, you go, ”Oh, my God, this is a leap forward in time. What does that mean? Why is he suicidal?” I just think that’s great.

How hard was it to keep the big twist a secret?
I was walking around with the cat-that-ate-the-canary look on my face. And when I would get questioned on it, I would say, ”I can’t say anything, but, man, I can’t wait for you to find out.” Even a lot of the crew didn’t know. When the scripts went out, the last scene of the episode was missing. So when we started shooting, the crew was just like, ”Oh my God!”

Did you guys shoot any decoy endings?
We didn’t, for that. But that has been done, which I just recently discovered.

Do you mean for last season or this one?
This one coming up. I wasn’t part of that particular scene. I thought I knew what was going on in the scene, and then found out that I didn’t.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Fans have been analyzing this Jack line from the flash-forward: ”You get my father down here…. And if I’m drunker than he is, you can fire me.” Given that his dad is dead, what was your take on that?
MATTHEW FOX: He was so loaded and emotionally distraught that he talks about his father as if he’s still alive. I called Damon on it, and he gave me a couple stories — actual accounts of people whose very close relative [died], and in a moment of being really f—ed up, talked about them as if they did not know they were not alive. In that moment, Jack is losing track of any concept of time. I knew that there was a way to look at it and go, ”Well, that’s kind of manipulative.” But when you [realize], ”Oh, it’s in the future,” you can believe that the man — years after his father has actually passed away — says that about his father in that moment. I totally buy it.

What is Jack referring to when he says to Kate: ”I’m sick of lying. We made a mistake”?
Jack and the other people, upon getting back to the world, are not being honest with the world. They are covering up [something]. That’s an agreement that they’ve all reached. And it’s a weird, gross little bond that they have with each other. They don’t see each other much, but when they see each other, it’s incredibly awkward. And this lie — you can cut it with a knife amongst them.

LOTS MORE (INCLUDING PICTURES) AFTER THE JUMP!! (more…)

Spoiler? Looks like someone else parachutes onto the island!  I CAN’T WAIT!!

The 40-year-old star, who is currently appearing in the big screen flick We Are Marshall, loves to strip down and swim naked, he tells Men’s Journal in its February issue.

“As for the skinny-dipping,” the Wyoming-reared Fox says, “when I was a kid there wasn’t a huge delineation in our family between having clothes on or not having clothes on. And the reason I have so much fun doing it now is people are so shocked by it, and, like, ‘Oh, my God, Fox just took his clothes off!’ ”

Expanding on the topic, he says, “But, I mean, just how long ago was it that we were all wandering around in loincloths? I don’t know, dude, but I grew up, all the way until I was 22 years old, fricking in locker rooms showering with f—in’ 40 other dudes and you’re not checking each other’s c— sizes out, you’re just walking around like it’s no big deal.”

For the record, he adds, “And no, I don’t take my clothes off all the time because I think I have a huge unit and want to show it off. I do it because it’s frickin’ funny!”

Besides going au natural, Fox, happily married for the past 14 years, to a former Italian model named Margherita, also spends his time restoring antique cars, betting on horses, fly fishing – and getting rip-roaring drunk, he tells the magazine.

“I really enjoy social boozing, and what I enjoy about it is when people I know and care about say and do things they normally wouldn’t say or do,” he says. “To make that happen I’ll instigate anything.”

To that end, he admits, “I’m absolutely an instigator. And I definitely know a lot of people who have woken up the next day and gone, ‘I can’t believe that happened, and it’s f—ing Fox’s fault.’ Well, it’s probably the most honest you’ve been in a while, man.”

Though honesty isn’t Fox’s personal strong suit: “I’m a liar and a cheat and a thief and the ultimate manipulator,” he tells the magazine. “You can never believe a f—-ing word that comes out of my mouth. I tell lies every day, man.”

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Okay then.

From Elka: Any definite word yet on whether Matthew Fox is getting killed off of Lost?
I hope you’re sitting down for this, because I have a direct quote from Matthew Fox himself, who (during press for We Are Marshall) told our very own E! cameras: “I’m not on Lost anymore. I’m done with that. I’m not going back. And it has nothing to do with my movie career. They killed me off.” Beep, beep, BEEP, BEEP!!! Do you hear that? It’s the sound of our B.S. meter going off the charts! To put it plainly, if Matthew Fox says he’s getting killed off, assuredly he is not actually getting killed. Unless…crap…Could he be doing a double-flip mind trip on us? Argh. This show is gonna be the end of me!

From Amy: Got anything on Lost?
Matthew also said, “The most exciting 16 episodes of television are coming up in the spring. And there are going to be so many things that happen. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you any of it.” I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Argh.

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