Matthew McConaughey may be the king of romantic comedies, but not everything was, well, okay at one point in his acting career.
While talking with Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios on his phone Good problem podcast, How to lose a guy in 10 days The star recalls a time in his career when he felt like he was on “autopilot” and wasn't making offers that resonated with him.
“The devil is in the infinite yeses, not the infinite nos,” he began. “The word 'no' is just as important, if not more important. Especially if you have a certain level of success and reach. 'No' becomes more important than 'yes.' Because we can all look around and see that we've over-utilized our lives.” Yes and we're like, oh man, I'm creating negatives and all of this in my life because I've said yes to too many things.
the Interstellar The actor continued, “When I was playing around with rom-coms, and I was 'rom-com dude,' that was my lane and I loved that lane. This lane was paying well, and it was working. I was so strong in that lane that Anything outside of that path — dramas and things I wanted to do — was like, 'No, no, no, McConaughey.' And Hollywood said, 'No, no, no, you can stay there.' What I wanted to do, I stopped doing what I was doing, and moved on The farm is in Texas.
Making the move in the late 2000s, Wedding planner The star said he made a pact with his wife not to return “unless I'm offered roles I want to do,” which included neither his previous staple genre nor the action-comedy part for which he was initially offered $8 million and later $14.5 million. – And they both refused.
“This was probably what I considered to be the most rebellious move in Hollywood by me, because it really sent a signal that he wasn’t bluffing,” he said of the 2010 case, which he previously discussed in his 2020 memoir. . “And when you have someone who's not bluffing, there's something attractive about that. I think that's what made Hollywood go, 'You know what?' It's now the idea of a new novel. It's a bright new idea.”
This is what eventually led to later films like Killer Joe, True Detective, Dallas Buyers Club and ClayHe said. “When those offers came, I was salivating. “I just started working and going back and working as much as I could and loving it and feeling every bit of it,” he concluded.
McConaughey has previously spoken openly about the risky move (literally), telling Glen Powell during a conversation with him interview magazine earlier this summer that it was “usually a zig-zag when I felt like Hollywood wanted me to make a move. When I spent my years in the world of romantic comedies, there was only so much bandwidth I could give to those, and those were some of the successes.” Strong for me.
“Dude, it was scary,” the Oscar winner continued at the time. I've had long conversations with my wife about needing to find a new career. I think I will be teaching high school classes. I think I will study to be a conductor. I think I'm going to go be a wildlife guide. I honestly thought: I'm out of Hollywood. I'm out of my lane. The lane that Hollywood said I should stay in, and Hollywood says, “Okay, you, dude.” You should have stayed in your lane. 'Later.'”
