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The Mosquito Coast Star Justin Theroux Plucked Elements of His Antihero from Family, Including the Book s Author
Theroux s character, brilliant but exhausting contrarian Allie Fox, resembles members of his family, the actor says. He is “an amalgam of several people, including, more than he d like to admit, probably elements of my uncle Paul.”
Author Paul Theroux’s 1981 novel
The Mosquito Coast was meant to be an attack on Reagan-era economics and its views toward consumerism and the environment.
Told from the viewpoint of a 14-year-old boy trying to understand his father, we find the frequently failing, yet brilliant, inventor Allie Fox leading his family of four away from modern civilization and deeper into Central America. Then things get complicated. The 1986 film adaptation, which was directed by Peter Weir, written by Paul Schrader and starred a grimy, stubbly Harrison Ford in horn-rimmed glasses, came away with mostly favorable reviews and has 76% Toma
Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and âThe Mosquito Coastâ
Ahead of the new Apple TV+ series, the author and actor talked about their collaboration and the shared history behind it.
In the Apple TV+ series âMosquito Coast,â based on the 1981 novel by Paul Theroux, left, his nephew Justin Theroux plays a disillusioned, egomaniacal patriarch with a mysterious past.  Credit.Michelle Mishina Kunz for The New York Times, Victor Llorente for The New York Times
By Chris Vognar
April 23, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET
Allie Fox, the escapee from society at the heart of âThe Mosquito Coast,â is no fan of any technology he didnât invent. So itâs kind of a kick to talk to Paul and Justin Theroux on Zoom, a video chatting app that Allie would abhor as intrusive.
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