Fox chose acting over Wall Street

Matthew Fox has admitted he was heading for a career as a Wall Street banker before choosing to go into acting.

Lost star Fox majored in economics at Columbia University but had a change of heart after he was laughed at for wearing a cheap pair of shoes.

"I went to this interview and I'd had economics all going on in my head - which to be honest was largely to do with seeing Oliver Stone's Wall Street.

"I borrowed a suit that was two inches too short... borrowed some penny loafers also. I was so broke. There's four or five guys all in their mid to late 20s there. We get through the interview and we're all standing around in a circle ready to go and they're saying, 'Yeah you gotta join us, it's all gonna be great'.

"Then one guy looked around to the others and, I'll never forget this, said, 'Yeah, but we're gonna have to do something about those shoes. Ha, ha, ha!'. I looked down and they were all wearing exactly the same pair of Oxford business shoes, and I had my penny loafers with my borrowed pants that were too high.

"It was that moment I realised, 'no way'."

Fox's latest film Vantage Point opens on Friday.