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With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history, travelling beyond this galaxy to discover what is beyond.
- news.com.au
- 26 Oct 2014
- Entertainment
McConaughey and wife Camila Alves at the LA premiere of his latest film, Interstellar. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images
AS Hollywood superstar Matthew McConaughey readies the release of his latest film, the Christopher Nolan-directed sci-fi blockbuster Interstellar, Michele Manelis caught up with the Texan to talk fame, films and family.
Despite this new ‘re-imagined’ Matthew McConaughey, the actor who plays serious roles in thought-provoking films (as well as the lead in the award-winning TV drama True Detective), in person, he’s much the same as he was when he was promoting all those rom-coms from 2000 to 2010; such gems as The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, Failure to Launch, or Fool’s Gold in which little more than his six pack abs was required.
And although of late he’s widely regarded as an actor of formidable talents, it’s comforting to know he doesn’t take himself any more seriously than he did when he struggled to keep a straight face throughout the interviews he did with Jennifer Lopez for The Wedding Planner, in 2001. As they say, you can take the boy out of Texas…..
Q.You always give the impression that money doesn’t mean a lot to you but here you after in one big budget film after another.
A. I like money! [laughs]
Q. As far as I’m concerned, the seriousness of Interstellar notwithstanding, you’ll always be the guy from Texas beating the bongos in the nude.
A. That guy liked money too! And he still likes money [laughs].
Matthew McConaughey, still dashing at 44. Picture: AFP PHOTO Source: AFP
Q. Playing an emotionally gruelling role like this, particularly saying goodbye to your children — how did your real life experience as a dad impact your performance?
A. I didn’t really think of how me being a father and my relationship to family and my children impacted my performance, although I am sure it did. This is about fatherhood, this is about being a parent, this is about being a child, it’s about family.
McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and David Gyasi in Interstellar. Source: Supplied
Q. You’ve had such a tremendous change in your career and in your personal life in the last few years. You were living in your trailer and camping on the beach not so long ago.
A. Well, we still have the trailer. When we were this in Calgary, I had the whole family in the trailer for about a month and a half, two months, so we still have the trailer. And the family. That’s a good thing right? And the family is growing.
Q. Growing? Are you making an announcement?
A. No. I have a two-year-old almost, so I don’t know if the last time we talked it was expanding, but no, there’s no hidden innuendo into seeing into my future.
Q. Speaking of the future, the movie shows a grim future. Would you like to see yours?
A. I am going to try to be brave and say no. I know that’s the best answer I can give and the one that will be best for me, but sometimes yeah, I would love to see it.
McConaughey with wife Camila Alves. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
Q. Christmas is only a few weeks away — what family traditions does the McConaughey clan keep?
A. The routine is that we get our families together, that’s the main routine. Where that is going to be, we never know. But the routine is that I always do the Christmas card a month before and I have done nothing about it yet. So it’s up to me to get them ready so if we don’t send them off and people will get them for Valentine’s Day. It’s basically a time where we decide whose place is it going to be the easiest to get to and we end up taking about 10 days, two weeks, sometimes more, to go there and spend time with family. That’s what that time is really about for me.
Interstellar is released in Australia on November 6.
