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The Big Picture

Matthew McConaughey | Career Arc

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.35.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

With Harmony Korine’s latest film ‘The Beach Bum’ now in theaters, Sean, Amanda, and Rob take a look back through Matthew McConaughey’s mercurial career—including his breakthrough moments, peaks and valleys, and where his stardom stands today. Host: Sean Fennessey Guests: Amanda Dobbins, Rob Harvilla Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Sean Fennancy, Editor-in-Chief of The Ringer, and this is the big picture a conversation

0:09.6

show about some of our most fascinating movie stars.

0:12.8

I am joined as I have been recently on these career arc episodes by a pair of thoughtful,

0:17.6

deep and possibly very high career archaeologists, Amanda Dobbins and Rob Harvilla.

0:22.4

Hello, guys.

0:23.4

Hi, Sean.

0:24.4

All right, all right, all right.

0:26.4

Yes.

0:27.4

There we go.

0:28.4

Thank you, Rob.

0:29.4

We're 30 seconds.

0:30.4

In case you couldn't tell from Rob's beautiful impersonation, this is an episode about the

0:37.1

life and the career and the essence of Matthew McConaughey, who is of course starring in

0:41.6

a new movie, Harmony Currents, new movie, The Beach Bum, which is out in theaters right

0:45.7

now.

0:46.7

And we're going to be talking about that movie quite a bit.

0:47.9

But before we do that, we're going to do what we always do on this show.

0:50.1

This is only the second time we've done it.

0:51.9

We're going to analyze different stages of an actor or actress or director's career.

0:57.1

And we're going to talk about the breakthrough moment and the personal pinnacle for each

1:00.0

of the three of us.

1:01.3

And then we'll talk about the big movie that's out right now.

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