“But I always told [director] Jeff Nichols this, look in Mud, the whole trailer for Mud could be Sam Shepard sitting in that green chair telling the boy about who Mud is.
The AP reporter didn’t know (it was complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease) but somewhat cruelly pressed him for a reaction anyway.
McConaughey asked, putting a hand to his forehead, “gosh damnit, from what?”