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| | Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves: LA Film Fest! | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out for a fun-filled evening, Matthew McConaughey was spotted at Film Independent?s Los Angeles Film Festival opening night last night (June 16).
Joined by his lovely lady Camila Alves, the ?Fool?s Gold? guy checked out the premiere of his new flick ?Bernie.?
The film is based in small-town Texas, where the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when he kills her, he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she's alive.
Also in the house for the shindig were stars like Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and writer/producer/director Richard Linklater.
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| | Matthew McConaughey's new mustache: porny or hot' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I can’t help it, I have a thing for Matthew McConaughey and his T-Rex arms and body odor masked by heavy cologne. That’s probably why his Brazilian baby-mama bugs me, I’m gel-ous, but I have to admit they look like two peas in a pod here. Look at how they’re slouched over, heavy-lidded, looking at the press line like they’d rather be anywhere else. Then when Matt straightens up and looks a little defiant, she does too - they’re sympatico.
This really endears them to me, that and Matt’s new thin 70s porn mustache. That scraggly thing over his lip is not hot, so it kind of releases all my pent up feelings of competition with a woman who is younger and hotter than I am. It’s ok, she’s in tune with Matt and his facial hair. They’re raising two adorable kids together and they probably spend their time exercising outdoors, getting stoned and looking through fabric swatches for various projects in their mansion. Their job consists of looking good and showing up to stuff, and they find it mildly annoying despite how well they fit the bill.
Matt and Camila were at the LA film festival last night at the premiere of Bernie, a Linklater film starring McConaughey, Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. Jack and Shirley were both there, and so was True Blood’s Carrie Preston (she’s not in it as far as I can find, I just love her), and also John Lithgow (he’s also not listed as in it, but he might be). The movie is about a mortician who kills a local widow and tries to make it seem like she’s alive. I sounds like Weekend at Bernies, but it’s probably much more interesting considering that it’s written and directed by Linklater. Is this the first project he’s done with McConaughey since Dazed and Confused… no there was 1998’s Newton Boys, which I haven’t seen yet.
So did he grow that mustache for a role? I hope so, but I guess in the scheme of things it doesn’t matter. He’s also wearing those light brown boots, so that’s really a double whammy.
I love this picture.
Photo credit: WENN.com and Fame
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| | Matthew McConaughey on the paparazzi: 'that check's already been written' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This story is from the April issue of Cigar Aficionado magazine with Matthew McConaughey on the cover. It’s been on newsstands for a while, but I picked it up in my local CVS and was pleased to see some new quotes I had read yet from McConaughey, who was recently unnecessarily bashed in Esquire by a journalist with a chip on his shoulder. (Thanks to all of you who pointed out that this was the same guy who made Brooklyn Decker look like an idiot, which she very well may be, but still.) The story in Cigar Aficionado is the one that McConaughey deserved in Esquire, because he comes across as thoughtful, introspective and grateful for his success in life. They quote people close to him who praise his career moves and talk about what a great guy he is. This is the impression I get of him in every interview and while I understand that he can be up his own ass sometimes, he’s a harmless stoner and they have that tendency. There’s no reason to paint a skewed picture of the guy because of it.
There are a lot of gems in this interview and it’s a shame they haven’t been more publicized. I love McConaughey’s take on the paparazzi particularly. He sees it as part of his job, and he’ll work out deals with them to leave him alone after they get their shots. Here are some of my favorite quotes from this article, and I would recommend you pick up the March/April issue of Cigar Aficionado if you’re a fan. It’s a very interesting and well written piece.
On public opinion making the law
“Public opinion is the tail wagging the dog, which is the law. It should be inverted. We elect these people because they supposedly know the law. Experts supposedly make the law. Judges are judges because they’re supposed to know the law. But when the public shouts first, public opinion creates a verdict before something even gets to court.
On Michael Vick
“Look at the Michael Vick thing. The NFL didn’t go hard on him, until public opinion said, ‘Hang him.’ Then the feds and the NFL stepped in. I don’t think the penalty would have been what it was until the public’s outrage was expressed. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have served time. But look at all the high profile people who’ve been allowed to stay free while doing heinous things to other people. But you create any kind of smoke and a team or an institution is going to say, ‘We don’t like this attention,’ and they’ll fire him.”
On how he deals with the paparazzi
“I was tired of getting pissed off. It was legitimate but I was tired of it. I though, well, am I ready to move to a place where they weren’t? No, not for good. Was I ready to build fences or tall walls around my house? No. So I just shook hands with it and dealt with it.
“So, say I’m taking my kids to the beach. And the photographers are there. I just talk to them and say, ‘OK, go ahead and take your picture. And then move on.’ How many pictures do they need of me running on the beach? So far, they’ve mostly respected that. But you’ve got to have a relationship with that kind of thing if you go out in public because that check’s already been written. Sure, I feel intruded upon. But I don’t feel it’s unfair. I can’t do anything about it unless I move on or imprison myself, and I don’t want to live like that.”
On whether he’ll marry Camilla
“Marriage isn’t something I’m against. My parents married each other three times - and divorced twice. I know a few older couples who have been married a long time and are happy; I’ve been around healthy marriages. I knew I wanted a family and I found a woman I love and felt was right for me. I thought, ‘That’s the woman I want to make a family with.’ But marriage - it’s not something we feel we need to be complete. It doesn’t mean we won’t do it.
“It doesn’t make my mom that happy that we’re not married. But it doesn’t make her mad either. Of course, I was raised to believe that you don’t have sex until you’re married. So there you are.”
[From Cigar Aficionado, print edition, April 2011]
There’s a lot more in there about how McConaughey got his start in Hollywood. He was discovered by a producer on Dazed and Confused in a bar in Austin, Texas. Then he went out to LA and started auditioning, earning his first leading role in Grisham’s A Time To Kill when he was up for a part of a Klansman and told the director he thought he should be the lead. They let him audition and then Grisham picked him personally for the role. McConaughey described the moment when Grisham called him personally with the news. “After I hung up, I went out and howled at the moon. That was big. I understood what that meant.”
I’ll be a Matthew McConaughey fan until he makes a dick move. Considering that he hasn’t done that in his 15 years of fame and has been nothing but low key, mellow and gracious with the press and even to the paparazzi that hound him, that probably won’t happen.
Above photos are scans from Cigar Aficionado magazine, where there are more. Photos of McConaughey running below are just from the month of March. Credit: Fame Pictures
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| | Matthew McConaughey in Esquire: is he a poser or is the journalist a jerk? | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I love some Matthew McConaughey, and I usually find him kind of fascinating, like he has this real joy for life and talks in parables. In the latest issue of Esquire, for which Matt is the cover boy, he comes across like a poser, though. He’s like one of those guys in college who thinks he’s the first dude to backpack around Europe and you just have to try it, or you haven’t lived. Only Europe is too good for Matty, he had to go to South American to challenge himself since they have modern conveniences in Europe. It became clear to me after reading a few paragraphs that this wasn’t the McConaughey I loved, though, it was some insecure journalist’s opinion of him.
In this Esquire story, McConaughey is so hospitable and accommodating. He invites the journalist to his spend a couple days with him, to go golfing, to attend a party at his house and to stay overnight on the property in one of his Airstream trailers. Only the journalist kind of sh*ts all over everything and comes across as insecure and out of his element. He portrays McConaughey as a caricature of himself and kind of mocks him. It’s hard to portray in a few segments, because it’s the overall tone of the piece.
Here are some excerpts, and I would encourage you to read the whole thing to get a better picture of what’s going on if you’re interested:
The journalist on McConaughey’s vernacular
Over the weekend he refers to six things as “nectar” ? a steak, the wine, the company of his older dog, a hat he found for his two-year-old son, the arrival of his final set of friends, and that one golf shot. Broadly speaking, nectar is good.
McConaughey on his trip to Peru
When things are going right in a golf cart, familiarity builds. And so I ask him the question that is sometimes awkward: why he took time off from making movies. I’m inquiring about the previous two years, before this most recent comeback, but McConaughey goes straight to his own question. The last two years don’t seem to be any of my business.
“I’ve done that before,” he says. “I went to Peru after A Time to Kill. I had a lot to think about. Just grabbed a bag and left. And I went up and further in, until I was about as uncomfortable and unfamiliar with things as I could be. You know why I don’t go to Europe for these trips? Because in Europe everything pretty much works, or it almost works. I mean, it’s almost what I’m used to. But Peru, Mali, Morocco? Nothing works. Nothing. So you have to give up on what you know. At least I do. And for a while it’s very uncomfortable. Extremely. I mean you’re faking the language as best you can, nodding at things you probably shouldn’t be, and you start to miss the things you know. And you need to eat.”
For the first time since we met, the truths pile themselves, emblematic but also pragmatic, hard-earned or maybe stolen from the lyrics of a pop song. I can’t tell yet. But he persists. “And I started to strip things down. I took off my hat and my ring, just this big old gold ring. I’d made it, melted down one of my dad’s old rings and mixed in some gold from I don’t know ? one of my mother’s teeth I think. And this ring ? big old M on it ? I took it off. One morning I get up ? Count of Montezuma, the whole bit, threw up, diarrhea, puked. It was a purge, man” ? this word he enunciates precise as a birdcall ? “and it was sick, but it was a spiritual cleanse, and after that I was high as a kite. I was able to look at all the stuff I’d stripped away and ask questions: What does that ring mean? What does my name mean? What do I make of that old American flag that’s sewn onto the hat I’ve been wearing for eighteen years? All these things that give me pride, what did they add up to?”
He was standing over a putt then, or he’d walked up onto the apron of the green, or he’d reached down to pull his ball from the hole ? some golf gesture. I don’t remember; I was listening. “It all comes into balance between day nine and day thirteen,” he said.
“What happens then?”
“That’s about the point where I start to see I can survive. And all my discomfort just disappears and then I pretty much feel free to go home. I try to let the place own me. Then I can go home.”
On his partner, Camila Alves, and their new home
“Before this, I had a super home in the Hollywood Hills that I did by myself ? landscaping, detailing pretty much everything. But that house was mine. And yeah, we coulda gone in there right away. Camila would have said, Fine, don’t change a thing. But I thought, I found the woman I wanna do it with, the woman I wanna make a family with, hopefully live our life out together. She needs to have 50 percent of that. I mean, it’s a lot easier for me to be at 100 percent. I’d always been 100 percent. It’s braver for me at 50 percent.”
McConaughey calls himself religious
“A friend of mine who’s a lawyer said something about me a couple of weeks ago, and it’s true. You know how that is? When a friend you’ve known a long time declares something about you and wham!” Here Matthew McConaughey snaps his fingers so loud it sounds like the cracking of a Lincoln Log. “I mean, you think, Hey, that’s true!” His voice drops. “Good friend,” he says. He speaks in many directions at once. “He said to me, Matthew, you’re into commas. Every time you think you’ve stopped, you always come out of it. Every time you think you’ve reached the end of that long dead-end street, you slip around the edge, past that stopping point, past the right angles. And I thought: Yes.” This is a word he hisses, almost every time, stretching it right into an invitation. “It’s all continuation! Even if you’re dying, that’s a kind of continuation, because you move on. And you have to change. Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it…”
McConaughey takes that fifth bite of rib eye, then sighs. “Listen,” he says, “I was thinking. Earlier, when I was talking about the commas, and the continuation? You might be tempted to call that ’spiritual.’ ” He tilts his head, as if weighing the word. “But I think that description would be a dodge. I’m religious. I like that word. You can use it.”
So he’s hunched, quartered toward me, speaking softly, cheek full of rib eye, and he pretty much whispers, “Yes, you can look at the table and say you see spirituality. Fine. Friendship, love, reverence for one another” ? he’s darting his eyes in various directions, so I get eye-blink camera shots: heads thrown back in laughter, glasses clinking, women striking a harmony, children climbing into the laps of their fathers. “And I can shake hands with that. Spiritual. It’s perfectly good. But what I see here is ligare.”
“Ligare.” I repeat the word to be sure I got it. I was taught by Jesuits. We’re in for some Latin here.
“It’s the root word of religion. It’s the Latin. Ligare. ‘To bind.’ ”
“So, re-ligare?”
McConaughey starts nodding. “To bind us together again,” he says. He gently pushes away his plate. “That’s how I read it, anyway,” he says. “That’s what I’m after. I’m religious. We are religious. You can say that.”
[From Esquire via Huffington Post]
Not everyone gets McConaughey, and not everyone thinks his way of talking isn’t some kind of affectation. That’s why McConaughey went out of his way to be accommodating, so that he would be portrayed well. Only he got someone who had already made up his mind about him. All the golf and hospitality in the world wouldn’t have made this guy write a positive profile.
Photos from Esquire
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| | Matthew McConaughey's Beach Bod Workout | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Working up a sweat, Matthew McConaughey was spotted exercising along Zuma Beach earlier today (March 28).
Known for being a fitness enthusiast, the 41-year-old stretched, jogged, and worked his abs in a blue pullover, gray and yellow shorts, and gray running shoes.
Meanwhile, the always in-shape "Lincoln Lawyer" stud stripped down for the April edition of Esquire magazine - in which he dished on his love for the Texas Longhorns, breaking his look-alike movie streak, and life in Malibu with girlfriend Camila Alves and their two children.
It seems no topic was off limits for Matthew during the Esquire interview except why he and Camila have not tied the knot, as he told, "Are there still things that I've got that our mine? That are nobody's business? Sure. Speculate all you want. Why didn't Camila and I get married? Nobody's business."
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| | Matthew McConaughey says Matt Damon does a good impression of him | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The lovely Matthew McConaughey was on Piers Morgan on Friday making me swoon with his sexy drawl. He’s promoting The Lincoln Lawyer, which is still fourth at the box office in its second week. It hasn’t yet recouped its production budget, but is hanging in there. It’s a shame because it’s said to be a solid legal thriller.
McConaughey gave a lot of great quotes, as is typical for him, and my favorite was when he checked out a clip of Matt Damon doing an impression of him on The Late Show in 2006. He smiled and said that it was a good job, but added that he didn’t know Damon that well. He also said he’d sent him a bunch of t-shirts from his J.K. Livin Foundation with a note that he didn’t need them, (since Damon joked that McConaughey is always taking off his shirt) but that Damon never sent him a thank you note.
In this web extra, McConaughey tells Piers Morgan about his first ? and arguably most iconic ? movie role in “Dazed and Confused.” “That was my first job and I could not have been handed a more fortunate working experience,” he said. McConaughey said the role came about because he was “in the right bar at the right time.”
There are a lot of McConaughey impressions ? what does he think of Matt Damon’s?
“That’s pretty good,” he said after watching it. “He did a good job on that, it sounds a lot like me.” McConaughey said he recently sent Damon some t-shirts, with a note: “obviously I don’t need these…. I never got a thank you.”
[From CNN.com]
Aw, Damon should have at least sent a note back! Especially because McConaughey is his go-to impression.
McConaughey also talked about the first time he met his partner, Camila Alves, and how it felt so natural because they were so open and honest with each other. As for whether he’s ever going to make it official by marrying her, he said that not being married “doesn’t make me any less committed. It doesn’t make me love her any less.” That was really sweet.
As for how he’s stayed grounded after making a mint in movies, McConaughey said that he has money saved but that doesn’t mean he’s wasteful with it or forgets the lessons he’s learned about hard work:
I got a nice egg… I’m going, OK, I’m going to be fine, my lady is going to be fine, my kids are going to be fine. And we can go on living our lifestyle.
We’re not that indulgent. We don’t do that much stuff. But sometimes, you know, there are months when we get around the holidays and stuff where I look at the monthly bill and go, oh, yes, we spent some. That was a good one.
Don’t have to worry about [bills] but we’re pretty thrifty. And I think that comes from, you know, value of a dollar whether you’ve got — you know, and when you’re — I grew up, raised value of a dollar, you work for what you get. You want to go out Friday night? We’ll do the chores of the house.
[From Transcripts.CNN.com]
I love watching this guy’s interviews because he seems like such a genuine person. You know what you’re getting with McConaughey, and he seems to like that trait in his women too.
Here’s a segment where he talks about if he’s ever paid to see a romantic comedy. The answer is “no”!
McConaughey is shown on 3/10/11 at the Lincoln Lawyer premiere. He’s also shown with Camila, his mom and brother, Rooster. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Matthew McConaughey Drops By 'Lopez Tonight' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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He?s been working overtime to promote his new flick ?The Lincoln Lawyer,? and last night (March 23) Matthew McConaughey paid a visit to ?Lopez Tonight.?
The ?How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days? hunk chatted with host George Lopez in both English and Spanish, showing off his linguistic skills.
Matthew explained that he grew up in Uvalde, Texas, which is 82 percent Mexican- ?That?s where I learned a little bit of Spanish.?
Lopez replied, "Lemme tell you something, if I wasn't high, I could've sworn I was -- seeing Matthew McConaughey talk Spanish!"
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| | Matthew McConaughey Drops By 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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He?s been busy on the promotional trail for his new movie ?The Lincoln Lawyer? and last night (March 17) Matthew McConaughey was spotted at the ?Jimmy Kimmel Live? studios.
The ?How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days? actor looked handsome in a pair of aviator sunglasses as he chatted with fans and signed autographs.
During his interview, Kimmel pulled out a picture of Matthew?s mother Kay McCabe (80) flashing her legs at the ?Lincoln Lawyer? premiere last week.
Jimmy quipped, "I see where you get it from: She doesn't wear pants. You don't wear shirts. It's like a nudist colony."
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| | Matthew McConaughey Premieres 'Lincoln Lawyer' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out for a swanky evening, Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves were spotted at the Hollywood premiere of ?The Lincoln Lawyer.?
The ?Fool?s Gold? stud and his beautiful babymama turned up at the ArcLight Cinemas, both dressed to impress. Also in the house was Ryan Phillippe.
During a recent interview, Matthew revealed that rather than acting, he was once set on becoming a lawyer himself.
?I woke up when I was in college - I think I was 21, and I said, 'Wait a minute - a couple more years of this, four more years of law school, I get out and I will be 28 before I actually have a job and am practicing what I want to do? I don't want to miss my 20s.' I wanted to get out in my 20s and try and make some sort of imprint in society. I didn't have the patience or the want to go for another six years of just education before I wanted to try out and get my own experience. So I switched over to film production and I am happy I did.?
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| | Matthew McConaughey Drops By the 'Today' Show | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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He?s been busy promoting his new movie ?The Lincoln Lawyer? and earlier today (March 7) Matthew McConaughey paid a visit to the ?Today? show to talk about how he almost became an attorney himself.
Chatting with Matt Lauer, the ?Fool?s Gold? actor explained that his father saw in him an uncanny ability to argue.
?That?s what I thought I was going to do, growing up I loved to debate,? said McConaughey. ?I always ended up on the defense.?
He continued, ?So my parents were like- my dad was like, you need to be a lawyer to come defend me if I get in trouble. I took it on from there. I went to college and that?s where I was headed.?
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