A recent poll showed that 45 percent of voters in Texas are willing to support Matthew McConaughey as the new governor of Texas.
Matthew McConaughey here is the Oscar-winning movie emperor that everyone is familiar with, and he starred in familiar film and television dramas such as "Interstellar", "Dallas Buyers Club" and "True Detective".
Star governors, though there are precedents in the United States, are surprisingly popular, especially when Matthew McConaughey hasn't decided whether to go into politics.
The love of the Texan people for him is hardly to say that it is not covered with "stars" and "hometown" filters.
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Yes, Matthew McConaughey is a native of Texans, but for many more people, he may still know and know him from his various works.
He has had moments of explosion and has been sung down countless times, but he always seems to be able to transform perfectly at the low point, giving Hollywood and the world more surprises.
If you take every ten years as a node, you can basically clearly see his staged transformation
Matthew McConaughey's acting career began in the early 1990s, shooting television commercials, MV, and making cameo appearances in film and television.
In 1993, he was a film student at the University of Texas at Austin, and although he had some acting experience, he was still an unknown young man.
At that time, he and his girlfriend were dating at a bar, and they happened to meet the casting director of the movie "Young and Crazy".
In fact, the casting director didn't like him at first, because "he was so handsome." But Matthew quickly seized the opportunity and played a small role.
The other casts of this film are also remarkable, including Big Ben, Mira jovovich and other future Hollywood celebrities.
It turned out that Matthew was positive, the film received universal acclaim, and his acting career officially began.
Just two or three years later, he came across the work that exploded in his own right— Joe Schumacher's Killing Hour.
He played a young lawyer who did justice, and the film really gave him a taste of success.
Not only did the film critics recognize the performances in the film, but most importantly, the film was very powerful at the box office, and it was the top box office in the United States just two weeks before its release. Domestic box office revenue exceeded $108 million.
Matthew also won that year's MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.
After "Killing Moment", it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a popular fried chicken in Hollywood, and there is a big guide for talking and laughing, and there is no small coffee in exchange.
Notable directors include Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump), Spielberg (Schindler's List), Richard Linklater (Love at Dawn), Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)...
Big names include Judy Foster, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Ethan Hawke...
These films with famous directors and actors are not bad, but it seems that there is always something wrong, and it can't better highlight Matthew McConaughey himself.
Hollywood is very sophisticated, if you can't create considerable value, you can only stop or even go backwards.
But Matthew McConaughey obviously did not stop here, because this man who was "disliked" by the casting director as soon as he debuted was too handsome, or actively or passively found a new position.
Make a "vase" in a romantic comedy and make money lying down.
Beginning in 2000, he starred in several romantic comedies, including "Wedding Planner" with Jennifer Lopez and "The Ten Day Tow Manual" with Kate Hudson.
Romantic comedy, everyone understands, the plot can basically be summarized as "After all kinds of misunderstandings, coincidences and conflicts, Ah Zhen fell in love with Ah Qiang." ”
Although there is not much deep connotation, film critics are saying that "the plot design is too deliberate", sprinkling artificial sugar, but it can't stand this type of movie, it has less investment and high returns.
The Wedding Planner grossed more than $10 million in its opening weekend, and nearly $100 million.
"Ten Days to Shoot the Manual" was also a success at the box office, and after two consecutive such impressive box offices, the producers wanted to replicate this profit model, and it was normal for all the scripts of Hollywood romantic comedies to begin to flock to Matthew McConaughey.
To tell the truth, filming is easy, the cycle is short, the money is fast and more, often millions, tens of millions, let's ask who can stand it?
Matthew McConaughey: I can't stand it anyway.
So in those years, he became the romantic comedy "male vase" in the hearts of film critics and fans. But Matthew didn't really care much about the urges from the outside world to "be self-motivated," and after the success of Wedding Planner, he "gave himself the right to enjoy it." ”
He said to himself, "Let's immerse ourselves in your present life, McConaughey, with all the luxuries and riches and fame." When it's time to leave, you'll know. ”
With this mentality, he enjoys the benefits of romantic comedy to the fullest, lives carefree in the big house by the sea, strolls on the beach bare-chested, dates and plays with different beautiful women, and is a drunken fan.
To some extent, he is accustomed to romantic comedies, and he has become the protagonist of romantic comedies, and even for the outside world, especially female fans, he is a hormone-filled, handsome and charming man in romantic comedies.
In 2005, People magazine named him "the sexiest man" of the year.
There's nothing wrong with being a "vase," but after years of immersion in romantic comedy, Matthew McConaughey gradually realized that his "lifestyle of living on the beach, taking off his shirt and running, and acting in romantic comedy" had led him to be stereotyped in specific roles.
So he began to seek opportunities to star in other types of works.
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That's when it comes to what comes to be known as the "McConaissance."
Why is it called the Renaissance? Because McConaughey finally decided to abandon romantic comedies and make far less expensive, but more profound independent films.
But when you've been stereotyped as a romantic vase, it's hard to find another reliable script.
So around 2008, he left Hollywood for almost two years.
2008 was also the time when he and his wife Camilla Camilla Alves were born.
This period of time was almost a turning point in his life, whether it was career or family, he made very different choices than before.
He bid farewell to the life of a drunken fan and returned to his family.
Also waved goodbye to the romantic comedy of lying down to make money, and began to dormant.
"Hmm... I know where I want to go, what roleS I want to play, but those roles don't come to me.
That's when I met my current wife, Camilla, and fell in love with her, welcoming our first child. So when I chose to leave work for a long vacation, they were the two anchors in my life that really settled me down. ”
When he says "no" to romantic comedies, he knows his work is going to stop for a while.
And the role he wants to play may still not stay for him.
"Maybe they'll never call back. Maybe Hollywood never calls back. Maybe that's the end of my career. Maybe I'll be a high school football coach. ”
Half a year, a year, a year and a half, or nothing.
Eventually, however, Hollywood called him and gave him a series of new roles.
"Lincoln Lawyer", "Killer Joe", "Sludge", "Magic Mike"...
Some of these characters are honest and intelligent, some are cold and evil, the personalities are very contrasting, and there is no doubt that they have broken the impression of playing romantic comedies for many years without depth.
His acting skills were recognized by the industry and the public in the first film "Lincoln Lawyer" two years after leaving the film world.
only... Much like the infuriating learning god, doing anything, handsome, when the vase has earned a lot of money for nearly ten years, the transformation can also be a blockbuster with strength, washing away all doubts about his ability.
2013's "Dallas Buyers Club" is even better, a low-budget literary film that costs only 5.5 million yuan, and this is even more costly by Matthew McConaughey.
He not only pays for it, but also produces "meat", a former Hollywood vase who once ate by the face, because the role played was a cowboy with AIDS and trying to receive treatment, and he had to be skinny.
He lost nearly 50 pounds (44 pounds) of weight before filming, and the appearance was completely unrecognizable to the extent that he himself was.
This kind of dedication, coupled with Zhang's relaxed acting skills, portrays a sick cowboy who strives to survive and benefits others but is not perfect.
This role also won him the Oscar crown.
Later, he switched from the big screen to the television circle and took over HBO's "True Detective", which seemed to be an adventurous action, but it really made the audience put him on the "altar".
The story, texture and production of the drama "True Detective" are impeccable, but the acting skills of the two leading actors are more praised.
Matthew McConaughey has become the husband of countless people because of this drama,
This attractive quality is not in the slightest from his previous Romeo-style external attraction, but a more restrained, silent temperament, like a black hole, full of danger but also unbearable to explore.
At this time, few people may have remembered that he was once a famous vase in Hollywood.
But in fact, he himself is not exclusive to participating in romantic comedies for many years, and even very grateful.
"The other stuff (romantic comedies and the like) is me too, I always say that, I love romantic comedy.
People always think, 'The present is the present, the past is the past.' The past you are not the real you, you are not the buddy who is always naked, nor is it a romantic comedy vase, you are now showing us your true self. ’
It's all nonsense. I was who I was in the past, and what I am now is still me. ”
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From Matthew McConaughey's debut to the present, his life seems to have been perfect beyond being more perfect.
I've had enough money, I've had a successful career, I've married someone I want to spend my life with, and I've had three lovely kids.
It is hard to imagine that behind such a smooth and successful life, there have been shadows, and perhaps even a shadow that cannot be overcome in a lifetime.
But in Matthew McConaughey's autobiography, Green Lantern, published last year, we get a glimpse into his gloomy past.
He grew up in a not-so-stable family of origin, and the father and mother were in love and killing each other.
Divorced, married, remarried, they had divorced twice, married three times.
The family is rife with fierce quarrels between parents, often mixed with violence and bloody, but it will end with parents starting to snap.
Matthew's father even died while sleeping with his mother...
In Green Lantern, Matthew reveals the incident, "He always said to me and my brothers, 'Kids, when I die, I'll have sex with your mother.'" And that's how it happened, he had a heart attack when he had an orgasm. In a word. ”
Ah this...
Most outrageously, Matthew and his mother also described the situation when her husband died when she appeared on the show last year.
"My husband died while snapping with me.
I remember when he fell, I said, 'What's wrong, big boy?' Did I hollow you out? There was no response, no response, and I thought, 'Oh my God, something went wrong.'" ”
Matthew McConaughey and mother
From these descriptions alone, one can vaguely think of what kind of parents the pair was, and in Matthew's recollection, some of his parents' behavior towards him may have been considered abusive, but he himself did not think so.
"The stories I tell are bloody, ugly, and sometimes violent."
"I think I told these stories because although our love was challenging, it didn't need to be questioned and was never defeated."
Even though he grew up in such an environment, he still loved his family deeply, and he did not copy that environment to his own children.
"The way I raise children is different from the way my parents raise their children... But I don't dare to judge my parents' ways, because every time I get into trouble or get a belt or something, I deserve it. ”
"In my own home, I choose to have more conversations than the previous generation or the previous generation. My wife and I did more to explain to the children.
Like, 'Okay, let's talk about this...'
To this day, my mom says, 'Oh my God, you're talking too much.' ’”
Compared with the "belt plus body" education method, there is no doubt that The education of Matthew McConaughey and his wife is more gentle and reasonable.
In addition to the problem of his original family, Matthew McConaughey also revealed in his autobiography that he had been sexually assaulted.
He had sex for the first time at the age of 15 while being "blackmailed", and at the age of 18 he was knocked unconscious by a man and harassed.
The sexual abuse he suffered when he was young, as well as the problems in his original family, did not make him stagnate and prevent him from becoming a better person, but took the road of life step by step.
From his childhood to his oscar-
And he not only overcame all this, but also worked hard to become a better actor, a better parent, a better person.
In his memoirs, he defines the moments of his life as green, yellow, or red lights that move him forward, pause, or stop.
And he named the book "Green Light", and the meaning is self-evident.
Although there are all kinds of pains in life that make you pause, or even stop for a while, more often, it is the green light.
"I have a lot of evidence that I've been plotting this century to make me happy."