There’s dumpsters, fallen power lines, and there’s a white van down there flashing his lights at us as soon as we arrive. He pulls off the highway about eight exits before the K-Mart we were headed to, and into this abandoned single-story strip mall. Stockings stuffers are big in the McConaughey household, whether it’s cotton balls to nail clippers to whatever. Those are stocking stuffers? Q-Tips? That’s stocking stuffers. My dad says, “Let’s go get some stocking stuffers,” which means we’re gonna go to K-Mart and get a bunch of nailclippers and, you know, Q-Tips and stuff. It’s Christmas Day, I’m about 16 years old. This story I’m about to tell you is really the one that encapsulated who Kenny Wells was for me. Really? … and took my mom to Ecuador, and has this with the machete coming out of the jungle. I mean, he would invest in diamond mines in Ecuador… The whole family said he would much rather do a shady deal with some fun people than do a good deal with a bunch of straight asses. My dad’s taking me to go see these people so we could shame them into paying him, right? But my dad loved shady deals. But we’d go try to collect money from people that owed him money, and he’d take me with him. Everyone was going Chapter 11, Chapter 13, and my dad wouldn’t go bankrupt. And I remember there was a time in the mid-’80s when the bottom had dropped out of the oil business and a lot of people owed my dad money. And this was an impression of my dad, but also people that he’d worked with back in the ’80s. And the only other two like that were Magic Mike and Dazed and Confused.īecause it reminded you of your dad? I’ve been getting off to the idea that more truth can come out of an impression than what really happened. I don’t think anybody else can do this.” I saw him from the inside out and knew his spirit with the first read. Anyway, I got Gold and it’s one of the three scripts that immediately when I read the character I was like, “I’ve got to play this guy. I think four years ago, right after Dallas. Oh, really? Before Dallas Buyers Club? I guess I’m exaggerating. How did Gold come to you? It was sent my way about five, six, seven years ago. Here, he tells some of his favorite tales about Dad, and explains why Mom prefers the pre-McConaissance McConaughey. In fact, he found inspiration for the character in his own father. For Gold, his new biopic of Kenny Wells, a paunchy, hapless mine owner searching for the big score, he packed on the pounds with pizza every night and milkshakes for breakfast, while maintaining the roguishness that has buoyed many of his characters. His career has blossomed since what has become known, perhaps regrettably, as “the McConaissance.” But that hasn’t dampened his newfound dedication. He won his Best Actor Oscar for 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club, a role for which he dropped nearly 50 pounds from his famously buff body to play the part of a heroic outlaw with HIV. But it was only when he married it with pathos and a deep commitment to his craft that he suddenly reinvented himself as a leading man who could ride that charm deep into awards season. Charisma has never been in short supply with Matthew McConaughey.
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