Vincent Orange, fighting Kwame Brown for Gray’s seat, went with a smaller Cadillac SUV than his competitor. What, he couldn’t afford an orange paint job?

We couldn’t help but ask ourselves a few questions after hearing that Matthew Fox would be in D.C. to promote his new movie, We Are Marshall. Did he finally get off the island for the interview, or were we just going to be in another one of his flashbacks? How would we get answers out of a man who spent days refusing to cooperate with “the others” in an old empty shark tank? Would it actually be him or just another illusion from the pesky smoke monster?

The real Matthew Fox stepped into the room at the Four Seasons Hotel a week ago in Georgetown dressed for the cold weather wearing a long black jacket and fedora, quite unlike the sun scorched character we are used to seeing. His latest film is based on the heart wrenching true story of a 1970 plane crash that killed most of the players of the Marshall University football team from West Virginia. Fox plays assistant coach Red Dawson, who chose to drive back on that fateful day, and prior to filming the movie the real life Dawson got on a plane after years of avoiding air travel to visit him in Hawaii. We sat down with Fox at a press roundtable where he discussed his relationship with Red, his experience hosting SNL, some parallels in his characters, and of course he answered a few questions about that other show. You know, the one with the island…and the stuff that happens?

We Are Marshall hits theaters December 22nd.

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