Matthew McConaughey Recalls “Shirtless Rom-Coms” Phase and How Turning Down $14.5M Offer Led to Career Renaissance – Hollywood Reporter
Back in the day — before he won an Academy Award or was rumored to be eyeing a bid to be governor of Texas — Matthew McConaughey was known as one of Hollywood’s most bankable male stars of a certain genre. He remembers it well.
“I’m the go-to guy at rom-coms. I’m living in a pad in Malibu surfing on the beach shirtless. I’m shirtless rom-com McConaughey and I’m like, ‘You damn right I am, those rom-coms are paying for these houses that I’m renting on the beach, baby. Guilty. Come on.’ I’m fully happy with that,” the 51-year-old, newly minted New York Times best-selling author recalled during a conversation with Tim McGraw on the latter’s Beyond the Influence Radio show on Apple Music Country. “At the same time, I started to feel like every rom-com script I did, I go,...