Matthew McConaughey ditched Hollywood for Texas, turned down $14.5M offer after being dubbed ‘rom-com dude’

Devilishly handsome and people charming, Matthew McConaughey was erstwhile the paradigm of a starring antheral successful a romanticist comedy.

However, the Academy Award-winning actor, present 55, chose to virtually and figuratively determination connected to greener pastures astir 2 decades ago, leaving his curated "rom-com dude" individuality down successful Hollywood and moving to his ranch successful Texas, wherever helium could beryllium much selective astir roles.

"Look, man, the devil’s successful the infinite yeses, not the nos," helium told Australian tennis subordinate Nick Kyrgios connected his podcast, "Good Trouble."

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Although helium excelled successful romanticist comedies, Matthew McConaughey says helium was acceptable to instrumentality connected much melodramatic roles. (John Nacion/Getty Images)

"'No' is conscionable arsenic important, if not much important. Especially if you person immoderate level of occurrence and access. ‘No’ becomes much important than ‘yes.’ Because, I mean, we tin each look astir and spot we’ve overleveraged our beingness with yeses and going, ‘Geez, ohio man. I’m making C-minuses and each this s--- successful my beingness due to the fact that I said yes to excessively galore things.'"

Over a span of 5 years, McConaughey starred successful "The Wedding Planner" other Jennifer Lopez, "How to Lose a Guy successful 10 Days" with Kate Hudson and "Failure to Launch" alongside Sarah Jessica Parker. 

Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Lopez successful a country from "The Wedding Planner," released successful 2001. (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)

"When I was rolling with the rom-coms, and I was the ‘rom-com dude,' that was my lane and I liked that lane. That lane paid well, and it was working," helium admitted. However, helium felt similar helium was connected "autopilot."

"I was truthful beardown successful that lane that thing extracurricular that lane - dramas and worldly that I want[ed] to bash - were like, ‘No, no, no. No, McConaughey.' Hollywood said, ’No, no, no. You should enactment there,'" helium shared. "So, since I couldn't bash what I wanted to do, I stopped doing what I was doing, and I moved down to the ranch successful Texas," helium said.

Matthew McConaughey smiles connected the acceptable of "How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days." (James Devaney/WireImage)

"I made a pact with my woman and said, ‘I’m not going backmost to enactment unless I get offered roles I privation to do.'"

However, McConaughey said not exercising his originative juices for 2 years took its toll. "That vessel of my favourite foodstuff started looking bully earlier successful the day," helium shared. "Luckily, Camila got pregnant with our archetypal kid [Levi], truthful determination was intent coming to look guardant to, but I was inactive like, 'Man's got to work.'" The mates present person 3 children together.

He joked that "making chimes and moving successful the plot wasn't cutting it."

Matthew McConaughey and his woman Camila Alves McConaughey reside successful Texas with their 2 sons, Levi and Livingston, and girl Vida. (Stephanie Augello/Variety via Getty Images)

However, 2 years into his impasse with Hollywood, McConaughey said helium got an connection to bash an action-comedy movie for $8 million. "I said, ‘No convey you.’ They came backmost with a $10 cardinal offer. I said, ‘No convey you.’ They came backmost with a $12 cardinal offer. I said, ’No convey you.' Came backmost with a $14.5 million…I said, ‘Let maine work that again.’ Same script, arsenic the 1 that was offered for 8, but it was better. I mean $6.5 cardinal much dollars. It was better," helium said. "It was funnier. I could spot myself successful this."

Matthew McConaughey says helium astir returned to Hollywood aft being offered $14.5 cardinal for an enactment comedy. (Gary Miller/Getty Images)

McConaughey remembered reasoning to himself, "'This mightiness enactment for you, McConaughey. This 1 mightiness beryllium 1 to travel backmost and do.' But I said no…That was astir apt seen arsenic the astir rebellious determination successful Hollywood by maine due to the fact that it truly sent the signal, ‘He ain't f---ing bluffing.' And erstwhile you got idiosyncratic who's not bluffing, there's thing charismatic astir that."

"I deliberation that's what made Hollywood go, ‘You cognize what? He’s present a caller caller idea. He's a caller agleam idea.'"

Matthew McConaughey starred arsenic Ron Woodroof, a antheral battling AIDS, successful "Dallas Buyers Club." (Maximum Film/Alamy Stock Photo)

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McConaughey would spell connected to database immoderate of the projects wherever helium went connected to flourish, from television's "True Detective" to the movies "Mud" and "Dallas Buyers Club," for which helium took location the Academy Award for champion actor.

Matthew McConaughey says Hollywood realized helium was not bluffing astir what projects helium was and was not consenting to do. (Dan MacMedan/WireImage/Getty Images)

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"And boy, erstwhile they came, erstwhile those offers came, I was salivating, man. And I conscionable spot connected into it, and went backmost to backmost to backmost and worked arsenic overmuch arsenic I could and loved it and felt each spot of it."

According to his IMDb page, McConaughey has 2 films successful post-production, neither of which are romanticist comedies.

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