Jim ran an oil pipe supply business. The two older McConaughey brothers worked for their dad, and Matthew originally planned to become a lawyer; that changed after an epiphany that led him to film school at the University of Texas, with the surprising support of his parents.
When he tells the story of how he got cast in his first movie, he makes it seem like a matter of randomness and good fortune. But pretending that he just got lucky is a good way to disguise his own cunning and resolve. The more you learn about how McConaughey ended up in Dazed , and how he developed the character of Wooderson, the more it seems like his path was not only intentional, it was the result of savvy choices. When he first auditioned, he seemed wrong for the role.
Matthew McConaughey: Everyone has a different story about how they got into this business. What I did, I went into the right bar at the right time and met the right guy. Sam Lawrence: You gotta put yourself back a long time ago.
That was the Hyatt in He just immediately makes you feel not attractive because of how attractive he is. I was totally ignoring him and somehow I mentioned something at the bar about Raising Arizona , and her boyfriend just immediately launches into this thing. He had memorized most of the fucking movie! We just hit it off. We started hanging out that summer like a shit ton. It was that kind of relationship. Sam Lawrence: One night, a guy comes up to the bar and sits down. He was a drinker.
He got really wasted the first night he was there. Wherever I went, I always went to the best hotels and flew first class. I really felt like I deserved it! I had already been to Austin to interview a lot of the local talent, but we still had small parts that needed to be cast locally. Matthew McConaughey: No. I think Toni and I just went to the bar because we could get free drinks there.
Don Phillips: In walks McConaughey with this absolutely drop-dead gorgeous girlfriend. I like women. Then about 15 minutes later, Matthew saunters down to the bar.
He asks me how old I am. I have more people that come and want me to share my experiences now than I did before. Oh yeah, I do have some experience under my belt. McConaughey, a media studies graduate from Austin, Texas, was 23 when he got his breakthrough: he was spotted by Richard Linklater in a TV ad for the local paper.
The director cast him in Dazed and Confused in — a hugely significant and splashy first role — and an enduring cult film. But the road was rocky: his father died during filming and four years of ropy horror and crime procedural TV followed before a followup breakthrough, in the John Grisham adaptation A Time to Kill.
While his first film showcased a knack for playing the slacker, his second allowed him to demonstrate a more refined southern charm and courtroom command. Suddenly, there came a flood of scripts — but again, he found himself at sea. There were unusual, often ill-advised choices. The McConaissance, too, has not been without its blips. Gold, the crime drama, was pure distilled Oscarbait that never saw even the glimmer of an award. The American civil war epic Free State of Jones, from the same year, was a project close to his heart that few audiences cared for; last year, the reviled franchise non-starter The Dark Tower came and went.
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