Once the actor got the ball rolling, he had a string of flops (Bernie, Killer Joe and The Paperboy) before some of his best movies to this day such as Magic Mike, Dallas Buyers Club and Interstellar, as well as HBO’s True Detective, brought about a new age for him.
It was a risk on the actor’s end too.
By deciding to forgo his ‘alright, alright, alright’ slogan to the typical type of movie he’d become especially famous for, he didn’t find another job for over a year after making Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.