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After starting at Richard Linklater (Rebel generation, The Newton Gang), Joel Schumacher (The Right to Kill?), Robert Zemeckis (Contact) or Steven Spielberg (Amistad), Matthew McConaughey quickly became the essential seductive brunette of y2k rom-coms, a bit like Hugh Grant before him, and on the other side of the Atlantic.
In A Marriage Too Perfect, How to get dumped in ten lessons, Playboy up for grabs, The Love of GoldAnd Haunted by his exeshe shares the bill with the most popular girl hits or young premieres of the time, from Jennifer Lopez has Jennifer Garner Passing by Kate Hudson And Sarah Jessica Parker.
That the American media Interview Magazine decided to organize a face to face between Matthew McConaughey and Glen Powell, is therefore not a coincidence. A Texan too and also passed through the Linklater box, he has not escaped the rose water either, notably with the enormous Everything but you, which had a tidal wave effect at the start of the year by becoming the first rom-com to exceed the $200 million mark. A genre of which Glen Powell has become a fervent defender.
However, if Glen Powell experienced a resurgence in popularity thanks to the film he co-starred with Sydney SweeneyMatthew McConaughey's experience was not the same, he explains that this genre, in which the studios locked him at one time, was almost a hindrance to his career.
“I always did zigs when Hollywood wanted me to zaghe confides to his colleague. During my romantic comedy years, I didn't have all the availability in the world and these films brought me a lot of success. But I wanted to try other things. Of course, I wasn’t offered anything else, so I had to leave Hollywood for two years.”
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A hiatus that the actor did not take lightly, the risk being of becoming one of these “ghost stories” as Glen Powell calls them, those who slammed the door of Hollywood without ever being able to set foot there again.
“I had long discussions with my wife about the need to find a new vocationreveals McConaughey. I told him: 'I think I'm going to become a high school teacher'. I think I'm going to study to become a conductor. I think I'm going to become a wildlife guide.' At one point, I told myself that I had left Hollywood, that I had deviated from my path; the path Hollywood told me to stay on. I imagined Hollywood saying to me: 'Well, fuck you, man. You should have stayed in your lane. For ever'.”
“It was scaryhe adds. The days are long – the feeling of insignificance. But I decided it was what I had to do, so I wasn't going to pull the parachute and abandon the mission. But it scared me, because I didn’t know if I was ever going to get out of the desert.”
Since then, Matthew McConaughey has become one of the key players in the same Hollywood system that he feared would turn its back on him. He made his return with the start of the 2010s, which saw the releases of Magic Mike, Mud, The wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers Club (which won him the Golden Globes and the Oscar for Best Actor in 2014) and Interstellar. He also made a notable appearance on the small screen, in the highly acclaimed first season of True Detective.
In fifteen years, the actor has multiplied the projects and does not intend to stop there. He will soon be showing in three films: Dallas Sting of Kari Skogland, The Rivals of Amziah of Andrew PattersonAnd The Lost Bus of Paul Greengrass. He could also play the main role in a spin-off of Yellowstonetitled 2024.
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