Matthew McConaughey on Acting: “You look at the character and I go: ‘Well, who is that?’”
Matthew McConaughey speaks about the roles he’s played and why he has never been completely satisfied with any of his films.
Matthew McConaughey Reveals How He Came Up With His Catchphrase, ‘Alright, alright, alright!’
“My character, David Wooderson, he has three lines in the entire film. Alright, but one of those lines is what I like to call a launch pad line.” – Matthew McConaughey
Watch: Matthew McConaughey’s ‘Dazed and Confused’ Audition is Exactly as Cool as You Think It Is
As one of the best high school films of the 1990s, Dazed and Confused features plenty of stars in their earliest roles. However, the most memorable actor in the film is undoubtedly Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey Talks Losing the Lead Role in ‘Bernie’ to Jack Black
Though Matthew McConaughey has increased his earned plenty of respect since he started taking on more substantive movie roles in the last few years (with Dallas Buyers Club even earning him an Oscar for Best Actor), one director that always has been a fan of McConaughey is Richard Linklater. Linklater
Watch: Matthew McConaughey On How He Finds His Characters and His Approach to Acting
Matthew McConaughey talks about finding his characters inner monologue, being in the moment, entrances and exits in a scene, tapping into a characters obsessions and more. Every minute of this is terrific.
Why Jake Gyllenhaal is Okay with Not Being Nominated for His Work in ‘Prisoners’
With the Oscars less than two weeks away, Hollywood is focused on will walk away with that statuette on March 2. In this strong acting year though, there were many snubs on the Oscar nominations list. Jake Gyllenhaal was one of those actors. His work as Detective Loki in Prisoners
Matthew McConaughey on His Approach to Acting: “Don’t worry about the result, get your head down as an actor”
Despite writing for a website called Daily Actor, I usually don’t put much stake into acting awards (especially since they are so many of them). However, I have found it hard not to enjoy Matthew McConaughey‘s award season success, not only because it is well-deserved but because his speeches have
Matthew McConaughey on His Decision to Star in HBO’s ‘True Detective’ and Why He Requested a Different Character
Just a few years ago it would sound like insanity for a film actor on the hottest streak of his career to decide to do television, but with shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad changing the way television is perceived, it’s no surprise anymore when a major film actor
Review: ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
McConaughey and Leto are wonderful and watching their performances should forget the films shortcomings
‘Dallas Buyers Club’ star Jared Leto on His Character, Rayon: “It was the role of a lifetime”
Jared Leto is making waves for his transgender performance as Rayon in the fall film offering Dallas Buyers Club. Much has been made about his transformation into the character and the fact that he stayed in the role for the entire 25-day shoot. One of the highlights of the film is
Matthew McConaughey on the Possibility of an Oscar Nomination for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’: “If that happened that’s wonderful”
There was a time when I would point to Matthew McConaughey‘s first movie role — David Wooderson in Dazed and Confused — as his best role in an inconsistent career overshadowed by performances in silly romantic comedies. But over the past two years McConaughey has constantly challenged himself as an
‘Dallas Buyers Club’ Star Jared Leto Stayed in Character for 25 Days Both On and Off Set
The media has been talking all year about Matthew McConaughey‘s weight loss for the upcoming film Dallas Buyers Club, but fans of Jared Leto might not even recognize the actor in the movie. Leto plays a transsexual who is suffering from both a drug addiction and AIDS. The actor lost
Matthew McConaughey Called Tom Hanks for Weight Loss Tips for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
Forget diet and exercise. The real secret to weight loss is… Tom Hanks. Well, at least according to fellow actor Matthew McConaughey. McConaughey had to lose a sizable amount of his normal bulk — forty pounds — in order to portray Ron Woodroof, an HIV-positive man, in Dallas Buyers Club.Â
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto Discuss ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ and Their Characters (video)
Here’s a couple videos featuring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto talking about their new film, Dallas Buyers Club. I am really looking forward to this. McConaughey is on a spectacular roll the past couple of years and this will only add to it. In the first video, McConaughey, Leto and
Matthew McConaughey Decided to Read Every Negative Review Ever Written About Him
Although Matthew McConaughey recently claimed that his recent decision to pursue better quality roles in acclaimed movies wasn’t a conscious decision, he admits
Matthew McConaughey: “I want to be able to hang my hat on the humanity of the character every day”
But it’s clear that after a short break in acting McConaughey is determined to make up for lost time in a series of jaw-dropping performances.
Matthew McConaughey on His Recent Acclaimed Roles: “I want to do something that I look at, that I’m excited about, that I’m actually scared of”
If any of the approximately seventy-nine hundred film societies gave out an annual award for “Most Risky Actor,” Matthew McConaughey would easily take the top prize.
Matthew McConaughey on ‘Killer Joe’: “I remember throwing the script in the trash and saying I don’t want to be any part of that world”
Those that know me well know that my all-time most hated movie is The Wedding Planner. I was stuck seeing that movie on two separate dates before I learned it’s perfectly acceptable to tell a girl “no, I’d prefer not to see a Jennifer Lopez movie.” As much as I dislike the movie, I hold no ire toward Lopez’s co-star Matthew McConaughey, although I never thought much of him as an actor because of his tendency to star in romantic comedies and awful action movies (though he is awesome in Dazed & Confused, one of my favorite films).
Biography: Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after leading men whose films have grossed more than a billion dollars at the box office.
Biography: Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey is one of Hollywood’s most sought after leading men whose films have grossed over a billion dollars at the box office. He is a Texas native who, while attending the University of Texas in Austin, planned to be a lawyer. When he discovered an inspirational Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World before one of his final exams, he suddenly knew that he had to change his major from law to film.