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A great relationship, a newborn son, and a successful career as an actor. In 2008, Matthew McConaughey was feeling pretty good about his life in California. Then an unexpected family health emergency took him back to his home state of Texas.
Of all places, McConaughey and his young family ended up renting a home in a retirement community to be closer to his mother. There he found a motley group of retirees who lived life without pretence and offered plenty of unsolicited advice about good living. The family emergency, the newborn and the experience with the seniors had him reconsidering one part of his life. Namely his career.
McConaughey was mostly known for being an actor in romantic comedies or roles where he got his shirt off at the beach. It paid well, but he was starting to find the whole experience boring. He needed a challenge and the acting roles he thought would challenge him weren’t coming his way. It was time to hatch a plan to change his career. This meant turning down all those lucrative romantic comedies. Not only did it mean forgoing a lot of money. Sitting out of acting in Hollywood could end up being career suicide. There are plenty of other hungry actors ready to step into those roles.
For a year, McConaughey continued to reject offers to act in romantic comedies, but they kept coming. Then one lobbed in for $5 million, only two months work. He declined again and explains in his book Greenlights what happened next:
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