Matthew Mcconaughey

Matthew Mcconaughey Makes Obnoxious Gold

... mumbles incomprehensibly. Kenny is meant to be crass and annoying, and on those terms, Mc Conaughey’s performance is a triumph. He is so successful at being obnoxious that sitting through Gold about as enjoyable as having a toxic-smelling stranger breathe down your neck while he tries to chat you up at the bar. Ramírez’s Michael Acosta is infinitely more interesting, a man who actually knows something about gold and how to find it. But for plot purposes, he must remain the secondary character, so we mostly follow Mc Conaughey around as he shocks Wall Street fat cats with his boorish ways. Bryce Dallas Howard is in the perfunctory role of the unfortunate girlfriend, and I wish there was something—anything—interesting to say about her character or performance. There’s a halfway-decent plot twist about 20 minutes from the end, but even still, more than three-quarters of Gold is a deeply unpleasant experience—an unfunny, lite version of Wolf of Wall Street that depicts churlish men in bad ’80 ...

My Agent Said No To Romcoms. And Then There Was Nothing

... time, his public image was closely identified with his first movie role, as Wooderson, a good-natured stoner in Richard Linklater’s Dazed And Confused. In the early to mid-2000 s, he made a slew of romantic comedies in which he bounced around on the beach or trailed young ladies through the streets of Manhattan, with an easy charm that both enhanced and circumscribed his appeal. Then Mc Conaughey entered a third phase, widely characterised as his big gamble to be taken seriously, but which he says was a “life vest” at a time when acting had become deeply uninteresting. After a few small, dark films it culminated in his 2014 Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club. For the making of Gold, Mc Conaughey gained 45 lb, wore a bald cap to make his hair appear thinner and put in a set of unflattering dentures, a radical transformation typical of his third act. (He most famously shed almost the same amount of weight for Dallas Buyers Club, and in 2012 piled on the muscle to play a stripper in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic ...

Sing Star Matthew Mcconaughey On His Worst Audition

... caption Buster Moon and his devoted employee Miss Crawly (voiced by Garth Jennings). You've done two animated films in the the past year - Sing and Kubo and the Two Strings. What have you enjoyed about your move into voice work. "Now I have something that the kids can see. If you look at my films over the last 10 years I haven't made many that eight, seven and four-year-olds can see. "It's really fun to do. With both of these I was thinking like an eight-year-old. There's something really unpretentious about it and I hope to do more.". Image copyright Paramount Pictures. Image caption The Sing voice cast includes Reese Witherspoon, Seth Mac Farlane and Scarlett Johansson. Can you be more relaxed behind the microphone. "Let's sing this line, let's say this line, let's yell this line, let's whisper this line - let's try it every way possible. And if you screw up so what? Plus, you can come to work in your pyjamas or a three-piece suit if you like.". Buster Moon and Gold's Kenny Wells share an ability bounce back when they are at rock bottom. How much did you appreciate those parallels. "They are vastly different characters but both of them are salesmen and both of ...

Beer Belly! Matthew Mcconaughey Talks 20kg Weight Gain For New Role

... get as lethargic as I thought I would.'. Matthew, who was voted People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 2005, completely transformed for his role as criminal Kenny Wells in Gold, which he claims is a film about 'American greed.'. With thinning hair in the film, the handsome star sports a rotund beer belly, a far cry from his previous looks. In 2012, Matthew starred as a stripper in Magic Mike, setting hearts racing as he showed off his washboard abs while performing racy routines on screen. Changing figure: Matthew showed off his ripped body as a stripper in 2012's Magic Mike (left), before dramatically dropping 21 kilograms later in the year (right). A year later, he shocked the world with his emaciated appearance, losing a staggering 21 kg to play an AIDS victim in The Dallas Buyer's ...

Phil Mickelson, Matthew Mcconaughey & Condoleezza Rice Headline 'feherty' 7th Season

... banner year in 2016, highlighted by Season 6 of Feherty being the most-watched season ever (Live Same Day, Live +3); sitting down with nowfour Presidents: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump; serving as an NBC Olympic correspondent in Rio; appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; being profiled on the Emmy award-winning HBO original series, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel; and playing a key role in NBC Sports’ unprecedented 12-week stretch of premier golf events beginning with The Open and concluding with the Ryder Cup. Feherty has gone one-on-one with celebrities across golf, sports, entertainment, politics and business, including sports legends Bill Russell and Charles Barkley ; Hollywood icons Samuel L. Jackson and Larry David; coaches Nick Saban and Bob Knight; as well a list of golfing greats spanning Jack Nicklaus , Lee Trevino , Tom Watson , Annika Sorenstam , and many ...

Why Matthew Mcconaughey Walked Away From Romantic Comedies

... up in the middle, boy chases her down at the end and meets her on a bridge or a moped.". It was seemingly the widely-panned 2009 film Ghosts Of Girlfriend's Past - which Mc Conaughey starred in alongside Jennifer Garner - that finally tipped him over the edge. Jennifer Garner and Matthew Mc Conaughey in a scene from the movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. "The ceiling and the basement of your emotions - how much pain can I feel, how happy can I be, how loud can I laugh? - that's designed to be a very thin wavelength, much closer together," he said. But it was hard to walk away, because "that same script, same words, with a $US 5 million offer, is so much better than the one with the $1 million offer.". To thoroughly rebrand, the father-of-three explained he had to clean his slate for a while and turn ...

Comedy’s Matthew Mcconaughey

... bit about street harassment and catcallers. You didn’t totally condemn it. You came from another angle where you basically said, “Here’s why it might happen,” and then to the catcallers you provided some options on how they might be able to get that urge out of their system without making women feel unsafe in public. I have guys that I’ve discussed these things with. Sometimes they’re like, “It’s a compliment. When you’re an old woman I bet you’ll miss it.” I’m like, “No.” Do I really believe that people should shout compliments about our outfits? Not really. That also makes us feel weird. I’ve had moments where somebody has said, “Nice coat,” and when I didn’t answer and they called me a cunt and started following me down the street. So I don’t really mean compliment our clothes, but I thought it was a funny solution. It was my way of saying that nobody is telling men they can’t talk to women, but just understand what we go through all the time and that you’re not the first person to talk to us in our lifetime and we’re scared of ...

Matthew Mcconaughey Loves To Work

... was an impasse of nothing. And there was nothing for about eight months.". And the 47-year-old actor admits it was hard to give up at first because of the money he was being offered. He added: "The ceiling and the basement of your emotions - how much pain can I feel, how happy can I be, how loud can I laugh? - that's designed to be a very thin wavelength, much closer together. That same script, same words, with a $5 million offer, is so much better written than the one with the $1 million offer.". Get breaking news sent instantly to your inbox. Sign Up. I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site consitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy. Meanwhile, Matthew also admitted he prefers dramas as he is able to explore "what a character would humanly do". He told The Guardian newspaper: "They are thin, by design. You come in on a cloud and you skip from cloud to cloud, and if you drop anchor in a romantic comedy, you will sink the ship. If it's a scene where boy meets girl and I get really mad for a second, uh-uh, cut. 'You ...

Matthew Mcconaughey’s Top 10 Performances

... in the first season of True Detective shows he can craft revolutionary performances on the small screen as well, all while remaining on Hollywood’s A-list. There’s certainly a gossipy level of surprise that comes with our undue fascination with this recent run of amazing work, informed entirely by his previous reputation as a Keanu Reeves-type dumb hunk. After all, how could a guy who looked like the glassy-eyed clerk who wouldn’t leave you alone at Sunglass Hut become one of the most intriguing actors of his generation. With the impending release of Mc Conaughey’s latest film, an odd-couple treasure hunt into the Indonesian jungle, we decided to revisit some of the actor’s finest roles. Sure, most of them take place during the Mc Conaissance, but we found a few genre gems that stretched the romcom actor’s capabilities further than could be expected. Now, without further ado, let’s get listin’, man, ...

Mcconaughey Told Us Where That Wolf Of Wall Street Chest Thumping Came From

... up being part of the scene. “We were done for the day - we’d done five takes, Martin Scorsese was happy, I was happy, Leonardo was happy and we were moving on and it was Leonardo’s idea, he goes. “Hang on a second.” and he asked me, “what were you doing before the take?”. “I explained what I just explained to you and he goes “Well you wanna try that in the scene?” and I said “sure.” So the next take I just did it at the beginning of the scene, but I remember thinking, ‘well, now do it at the end of the conversation to see if the young turk - who you just taught what Wall Street is all about  - see if he’s on the same frequency, see if he gets it,’ and so we ended up bookending the scene with it and that was the take we used.”. Matthew Mc Conaughey is unrecognisable in exclusive Gold trailer. Thus Matthew’s personal relaxation technique became a piece of pop culture. But does he still do it now it’s not so secret. “Oh I still do it!” he assured me. “But it’s a different tune that I’m humming or beating on my chest for each character.”. And where do they come from. “They come from the soundtrack of my mind on what ...

Matthew Mcconaughey Won’t Back Away From His Drumming Past

... “ alright, alright, alright ” to that bizarre chest-beating chant from Wolf of Wall Street —were either improvised or actual Mc Conaughey-isms. Despite having achieved enormous success, the actor has never let go of the off-the-wall behavior that inspired director Richard Linklater to pluck him out of the crowd decades ago. So when the Mc Conaughey has a chance to share some of his quirkier tendencies, you know it’s going to be good. And for old-school fans of the actor, this latest interview holds a delightful hidden gem. In addition to confessions about cheeseburgers and the usual hand-wringing about gaining weight for a role, Mc Conaughey, tongue potentially in cheek, tells Us Weekly : “I’m not a bad drummer.” Here’s why 90 s kids are currently cracking up. If you’re a recent convert and have only been following the Texas-born Mc Conaughey since his 2011 return to the A-list , you might have missed one of the most eccentric chapters in his 24-year career. Back in ...

Matthew Mcconaughey Is Insufferably Hammy

... smug hero makes an unearned claim on our sentimental affections; he is the roistering entrepreneur who wants to be both the victim of a fraud yet somehow also its lovably cheeky beneficiary. Moreover, Mc Conaughey has zero bromantic chemistry with his co-star, Edgar Ramírez, who phones in a dull, blank performance. Matthew Mc Conaughey: ‘My agent said no to romcoms. And then there was nothing’. Read more. The story is based on a 1990 s mining scandal: a phoney claim to have found gold in Indonesia created a stock-market tulip fever based on nothing. Mc Conaughey plays Kenny Welsh, a veteran mining engineer who is staring failure and poverty in the face; then a visionary dream tells Kenny to look for gold in Indonesia, where he bankrolls an exploratory drill by geologist Michael Acosta ...