Party of Five alum Matthew Fox was a natural fit to play Dr. Jack Shepard, the head of a proverbial household of plane crash survivors.
But while his leading-man presence led to big-screen opportunities in the likes of We Are Marshall, Speed Racer, Alex Cross and World War Z, Fox didn’t feel the need to go back after making Bone Tomahawk in 2014.
“I wanted to do a Western,” he told TV Line in 2022, explaining his long hiatus from acting. “It’s a very odd Western, but it’s a Western. And so that sort of completed the bucket list.”
More importantly, he added, around that time his daughter Kyle and son Byron with wife Margherita Ronchi “were at an age where I felt like I needed to really reengage. I had been focused on work for some time, and 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.”
Fox returned to action as a star and producer of the Peacock series Last Light in 2022, and he has booked roles in the upcoming Yellowstone spin-off The Madison and the Max series The Assassin.