Matthew McConaughey is more than alright, alright, alright about his decision.
Before the Oscar winner earned awards for projects like True Detective and Dallas Buyers Club, he made his name in a slew of romantic comedies during the earlier aughts. And while films like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days paid the bills, the genre ultimately led to his departure from Hollywood in 2010.
“I was the rom–com dude and that was my lane,” Matthew shared on the Good Trouble with Nick Kyrgios podcast Nov. 20. “It was working. But I was so strong in that lane that anything outside of that lane that I wanted to do, Hollywood said, ‘No, no, no. You stay right there.'”
“Since I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, I stopped doing what I was doing and I moved down to the ranch in Texas,” the Magic Mike actor—who married Camila Alves in 2012—continued. “I went there and made a pact with my wife and said, ‘I’m not going back to work unless I get offered roles I want to do.'”
