Matthew McConaughey - 'White Boy Rick'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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One of Hollywood's most colorful characters — he has morphed from bit player to leading man to matinee idol to Oscar winner over the last 25 years — shares the backstories of "Alright, alright, alright," his big break, his rom-com/shirtless era and one of Hollywood's most remarkable career-reboots, 'the McConnaisance.' Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 5 years and an Oscar winning actor as well. Famous for his work in a wide variety of films
0:26.0	including 1993's Dazed and Confused, 1996's Lone Star, and A Time to Kill,
0:32.2	1997's Contact and Amestad, 1999's Ed TV, 2001's The Wedding Planner,
0:38.6	2003's How to Lose a Guy in 10 days, 2006's Failure to launch, 2011's the Lincoln Lawyer, Bernie, and Killer Joe,
0:47.5	2012's Mud, Magic Mike, and The Paper Boy, 2013's Dallas Buyers Club, 2014's Interstellar, and The Wolf of Wall Street, 2016's
0:57.1	Gold, and most recently, 2018's White Boy Rick, a film in which McConaughey plays a single father trying his best to raise his kids in 1980s Detroit.
1:08.0	The film, which is based on a true story, had its first screenings at September's Telluride and Toronto film festivals
1:14.1	en route to being released by Sony on September 14th and no aspect of it has been
1:19.7	more heralded by critics and audiences than McConaughey's supporting turn.
1:24.6	Over the course of an in-depth conversation at the Fairmont-Miramar Hotel and Bungalows in Santa Monica,
1:30.0	the 48-year-old and I discussed a wide range of topics, including how he was discovered in a hotel bar in Austin and then acquired his catchphrase
1:38.6	all right all right and his philosophy just keep living on the set of his first movie D Days and Confused,
1:45.0	what led to his first leading role in a time to kill,
1:48.5	which literally turned him into a movie star overnight?
1:51.5	How he then became someone best known for romcoms and for paparazzi photos of him running shirtless
1:57.4	on beaches and why he decided to do something about it that ultimately led to one of the most
2:02.0	remarkable career
2:03.0	reboots in Hollywood history, also known as the MacConesance, which
2:07.4	included a best actor Oscar Wynne for Dallas Byers Club and a best actor in a
2:11.4	drama series Emmy nomination for the groundbreaking first installment of True Detective, both in 2014.
2:18.0	What more recently motivated him as someone with a spot firmly on Hollywood's A lists to take on a
2:24.4	supporting part in white boy Rick plus much more so without further ado let's go
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