From The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Matthew Fox, who plays the heroic Dr. Jack Shephard on ABC’s castaway drama “Lost,” has a dark side.

“I’m a liar and a cheat and a thief and the ultimate manipulator. ... I tell lies every day, man,” the 40-year-old actor says in the February issue of Men’s Journal magazine. “And when I say I’m phenomenally manipulative, I am.”

Fox, who is now starring opposite Matthew McConaughey in “We Are Marshall,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release, says he “can be unapologetically vicious” and is “absolutely an instigator.”

“I really enjoy social boozing, and what I enjoy about it is when people I know and care about say and do things they normally wouldn’t say or do,” he tells the magazine. “To make that happen I’ll instigate anything.”

Fox also enjoys skinny-dipping, something he does, he says, because he’s comfortable in the nude.

“As for the skinny-dipping, when I was a kid there wasn’t a huge delineation in our family between having clothes on or not having clothes on,” he says.

“And the reason I have so much fun doing it now is people are so shocked by it, and, like, ‘Oh, my God, Fox just took his clothes off!’ But, I mean, just how long ago was it that we were all wandering around in loincloths?”

“Lost” is on hiatus until February. When it resumes it will continue without a break through May.

NEW YORK — Marcia Cross, who is expecting twins in April with her stockbroker-husband, Tom Mahoney, has been put on bed rest, her spokeswoman said Wednesday.

“This is a precautionary measure only,” publicist Heidi Slan said in an e-mail to the Associated Press. She declined to give further details.

Producers of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” in which Cross, 44, stars as the persnickety Bree, have decided to move production at the end of this week to the actress’ Los Angeles home for two days, according to a story posted on TV Guide’s Web site.

A call to a spokesman for “Desperate Housewives” wasn’t immediately returned.

Cross, whose character isn’t pregnant, had planned to film two more shows following the Feb. 11 episode because it was becoming too difficult to hide her pregnancy, TV Guide reported Wednesday.

Cross and Mahoney married in June 2006. The couple dated for more than a year and became engaged in August 2005.