Matthew McConaughey mirrored on his days as “the rom-com man” and the way turning down one film provide modified his profession.
“I used to be getting amount, however I wasn't getting the standard,” McConaughey, 55, recalled throughout a Thursday, September 18, episode of “The Diary of a CEO” podcast, noting that he wished to do one thing “that scares me” relatively than what he was used to.
“What I wish to do is dramas, however Hollywood received't provide me one irrespective of how massive of a pay minimize I take,” McConaughey continued. “If I can't do what I wish to do, I'm going to give up doing what I've been doing. [I] Selected to, growth, go to the ranch in Texas. … Instructed my agent, ‘No extra rom-coms.'”
After making this determination with spouse Camila Alves' help, the effectively was dry. (McConaughey famous that Alves was pregnant with their first baby at this level of their relationship.)
“Nothing is available in for months,” McConaughey stated, noting that he began trying into alternate careers. “This provide is available in for this motion comedy. $8 million provide. I learn it and I stated, ‘No, thanks. That's the stuff I'm not doing.'”
He continued, “They arrive again with a $10 million provide. I'm not studying that once more, no thanks. Come again at a $12 million provide. Guys, inform him I stated no thanks. They arrive again at a $14.5 million provide. I stated, ‘Let me learn that once more.'”
Matthew McConaughey in ‘Dallas Consumers Membership' Courtesy Everett Assortment
McConaughey finally turned it down.
“I don't have any proof of it, however I believe that me saying no to that $14.5 million provide a 12 months into me leaving and saying no extra rom-coms,” he stated. “I believe me doing that despatched the message by way of Hollywood. Oh, McConaughey shouldn't be bluffing. What the f***'s he as much as?”
McConaughey joked his brothers even questioned if he had a “main malfunction” by turning down that a lot cash. (The actor has two older brothers, Rooster and Pat McConaughey.)
Twenty months after his break from Hollywood, the drama film presents began rolling in. Whereas he didn't reveal which title particularly made the change, McConaughey referenced True Detective, Dallas Consumers Membership (for which he received an Oscar), The Lincoln Lawyer, Killer Joe, Mud and Magic Mike.
“I used to be off and I grabbed a maintain of all of them I may and did them and love doing them,” he continued. “Would these have come if I'd by no means stepped out? … No, they wouldn't have.”
