Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Got a truly great one for you, not that they're not all great, but a truly great one this

week with Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, who does not love McConaughey.

We first fell in love with a guy back in 1993 when he played Wooderson in the movie Days

in Confused.

Remember, he was the 20-something guy who's still hanging out with the high school kids

in town, kind of a local legend who uttered the phrase, all right, all right, all right.

Did you know those three words were the first line ever delivered by Matthew McConaughey

in a movie.

It was his first acting job and that was his first line.

From there, he went on three years later to start a time to kill opposite Sandra Bullock.

That's when he really became a movie star.

Then he went through the 2000s as this bankable romantic comedy guy doing movies with Kate

Hudson and J. Loan at long list of romantic comedies.

Then 2008, just goes dark.

He was offered at one point, you'll hear him talk about it, $14.5 million to do another

romantic comedy and he said no.

That's how serious he was about kind of turning things in a new direction in his career.

He goes away for 20 months, almost two years, comes back and just takes dramatic roles, culminating

in Dallas Byers Club for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor.

Of course, he did true detective, which an amazing HBO series and so much more since then.

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