In his new memoir Greenlights, McConaughey defends his decision to devote a decade of his career to the romance genre’s pop-corn flicks.
Younger fans might have trouble remembering this, but there was a time when Matthew McConaughey was Hollywood’s go-to guy for generic rom-com male lead roles.
“The romantic comedies remained my only consistent box office hits, which made them my only consistent incoming offers.
If I couldn’t do what I wanted, I wasn’t going to do what I didn’t, no matter the price.”