Matthew McConaughey recently said in an interview with The Guardian that he called him when his brother made the decision to stop acting in romantic comedies and take a break from Hollywood until he began to acquire more dramatic roles. The Oscar winner has been long outspoken about his desire to leave the Rom-Com genre behind, and even revealed in his 2020 memoir that he turned down a $14.5 million offer to return to the genre he became a star.
“I was good at not loving,” McConaughey now told the Guardian about his decision. “I wasn’t looking in the mirror. “My life is more important than my work. Oh, I hope my work is as essential as my life.” “Good luck. If it has to be in some way, it’s good for you to feel that your life is more important than your work and not the other way around.” But I want to go for it. I want to see if my work is a very important and living experience to me.
“My brother said, ‘Brother, what is your main unfair feature? What are you thinking?” he continued. “And I was like, ‘No, this isn’t clear to me (My wife Camila Alves), we’re trying to do this. We’re not going to pull a parachute. We’re going to ride this.” And 20 months later, the embankment broke and the offer I wanted appeared. ”
McConaughey has surpassed the $100 million mark at the box office in the early 2000s with films like The Wedding Planner, How To Lish AA To Guy, Lasin of Launing, Fool’s Gold, and The Ghost of Past Girlfriends. He said last year on a “Good Trouble” podcast that he physically abandoned Hollywood and moved his family to Texas when the industry refused to diverge from the genre.
“When I was rolling with the ROM-COMS, I was ‘Rom-Com Dude’. It was my lane and I liked that lane. “I was so strong in that lane, anything outside of that lane – the drama and what I want to do – was like, ‘No, no, McConaughey’. Hollywood said, “No, no, we should stay there.” So I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, so I stopped doing what I was doing and moved to a ranch in Texas. ”
After McConaughey moved to Texas with his family, he signed an agreement with his wife, saying, “I’m not going to go back to work unless I’m given the role I want to do.”
McConaughey said in a magazine discussion in the interview that he was “scary” to leave Hollywood while his career was extremely successful. He even thought that moving to Texas would mean he would need to find a new job.
“I think I’m going to teach high school classes. I think I’m going to study to be a conductor. I think I’m going to be a wildlife guide,” the actor said. “It was viewed by me as the most rebellious move in Hollywood, probably because I signaled it.
Fortunately, Hollywood listened and offered film roles such as “Mud,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Interstellar,” and “True Detective,” which ultimately changed the course of his career. He won the Best Actor Oscar for the “Dallas Buyers Club.”
Check out the full interview with McConaughey’s Guardian here.
