Because I have achieved or am in the middle of achieving most of those goals.īRITTANY JONES-COOPER: You talk about you always wanted to be a father, and now you have three beautiful children. But evidently, I didn't forget when I look at it. I'd forgotten I'd written any of that down. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: I found that when I was writing this book and my diaries. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: I wrote that down in 1992.īRITTANY JONES-COOPER: That was- I loved that. So I unbranded, said no and unbranded, to end up fortunately where I was able to rebrand and do the work that I wanted to do.īRITTANY JONES-COOPER: Yeah, and reach something that had been on your bucket list, which was to win the Academy Award. The dramatic fare that I was looking for. Where's McConaughey? And in the where's McConaughey, all of a sudden I became a new, novel, and good idea for certain things like Lincoln Lawyer, Killer Joe, Paperboy, Magic Mike, True Detective, Dallas Buyers Club. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: I was kind of forgotten. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: I don't think it got made. You know? So I read it again, but ultimately said no.īRITTANY JONES-COOPER: I'm curious, did that rom-com go on to be very successful? And I said, you better let me read that again. I had a rom-com come in that started off with a $5 million offer that worked its way up to an $8 million offer. So because I couldn't do what I wanted to do, I quit doing what I was doing. But those roles were not getting offered me. I'm not sure I'm going to do with this, but I want to try. I wanna read the script and a character that scares me and goes, ooh man. I was the shirtless guy on the beach, you know those rom-coms paid for the house on the beaches that I went shirtless on. I liked doing them, they paid me handsomely.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: I was the go to rom-com guy. What did you learn about the power of saying no during that time? And without that arrogance, I don't know if I would have had the confidence to put myself in some of those positions where I learned a better lesson.īRITTANY JONES-COOPER: You talk about that shift from rom-coms to films that you felt really passionate about, and to do that you had to take a break. I was like, oh jeez, you thought you knew it all. And I went back and read it and I saw all those things.īut most of the times that I looked at, that I thought I would be embarrassed about, I actually laughed at. I was embarrassed about seeing and reading about when I was- the times when I was sure I was going to be an arrogant little P-R-I-C-K, a Mr. I'm curious, what was it like for you to go back and just unpack those different versions of Matthew? Make something of it.īRITTANY JONES-COOPER: I've kept a diary since I was 14. Sometimes good fortune lands in our lap, and we've got to recognize it if we have the chance to and then do something with it. Sometimes I engineered green lights in my life by the choices I made. I found consistent approaches that I've had to life that have given me more green lights in life. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: It is more of an approach book.
You talk about the art of living, and you see this isn't quite a memoir, It's more of a playbook. Shows us a very spiritual and insightful side of himself in his new book, Greenlights. Hey guys, I'm Brittany Jones-Cooper, and I'm so excited to be chatting with Matthew McConaughey, the Academy Award-winning actor. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: Ah, it's just of those words that brings a smile to anyone's face. I was trying to act real serious about asking you about wet dreams, and it's just like not even. Wait, let me start that again, because I just started laughing on the question. “I found consistent approaches that I've had to live that have given me more green lights in life.” Video TranscriptīRITTANY JONES-COOPER: You talk about wet dreams.
“It is more of an approach book,” he told Yahoo Life. McConaughey, 51, simply refers to it as a playbook. In his new book Greenlights, Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey shares the defining and sometimes outrageous stories that shaped him as a man.