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After over a decade away from the small screen,Matthew Foxis opening up about his big return to television.
“I kind of had a bucket list in my mind of things that I wanted to accomplish in the business, and after I didBone Tomahawkin 2014 that had kind of completed the bucket list,” Fox said at the Monte-Carlo Film Festival over the weekend,Varietyreported. “I wanted to do a Western. It’s a very odd Western, but it’s a Western. And so that sort of completed the bucket list.”
“At that time in my life, our kids were at an age where I felt like I needed to really reengage,” he continued. “I had been focused on work for some time, and [my wife] Margherita had been running the family so beautifully, but I felt like it was time to be home, and I really felt like I was retiring from the business, and working on other creative elements that are really personal to me – some music and writing.”
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However, Fox told reporters that things changed when he got the opportunity to be both the executive producer and star ofLast Light.
“I kind of got to a point where I thought that maybe the bucket list included executive producing,” he said. “I’d never done that before. The opportunity to be involved in ‘Last Light’ came along, and so I wanted to give it a shot. And it felt like the right time.”
“So it just all kind of came together. It felt like it was the moment to jump back in, and see how it felt to be in front of a camera again, and to act again,” Fox added. “And it was surprisingly rewarding. And I felt really good doing it, and with this incredible group of people, and the collaborative aspect of it, and how well we all bonded, how much we believed in the project. And it turned out to be a fantastic experience.”
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“Last Lightis the perfect combination of an action-packed limited series with a compelling family drama at its heart,” Lisa Katz, president scripted content, NBCUniversal television and streaming, said in a statement.
source: people.com
