nprfreshair: Matthew McConaughey on the serious turn his career…
Matthew McConaughey on the serious turn his career has taken in the past few years:
These roles — these last six films I’ve done — they came to me; I didn’t go out and chase them,” he says. “[W]hat I had in my life at that time was something really special, which allowed me to take a pause and back away and not do the romantic comedies, or not do the other scripts that were coming in. I had a son.
So I said, ‘I’m going to be a father for a while. I’m not going to rush into work. Let the work come find me.’ … So I was able to be very patient and, what happened is, I got the call from Billy Friedkin [about the part of a cop moonlighting as a murderer in Killer Joe], and then Richard Linklater came to me with the Bernie script. And I got the call from Soderbergh [for the strip-club-emcee role in Magic Mike], and then Lee Daniels gave me a call on Paperboy and then Jeff Nichols came. So they came to me — and that was just really one of those wonderful ways the world works.
Image of Matthew McConaughey in Bernie via Theiapolis
I enjoyed Bernie a fair amount. It wasn’t at all what I was expecting. But it had some really interesting moments.
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