Matthew McConaughey reveals the real reason he moved back to Texas at height of his acting career

Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey officially bid farewell to Southern California and moved backmost to his location state of Texas with his family in 2014.

And present the actor, 55, is opening up astir the information down the determination and however it's impacted his Hollywood vocation implicit the past decade.

Before taking location an Academy Award and starring successful acclaimed dramas similar Dallas Buyers Club and Interstellar, McConaughey was considered the 'rom-com dude.'

He was truthful hopeless to nary longer beryllium typecast that helium 'stopped' taking roles — adjacent turning down an unnamed enactment drama movie with a $14.5 cardinal wage — and relocated from Los Angeles to a ranch successful Austin successful the aboriginal 2010s.

'When I was rolling disconnected the rom-coms. And I was the rom-com dude, man. That was my lane, and I liked that lane. That lane paid good and it was working,' helium explained connected this week's occurrence of the Good Trouble with Nick Kyrgios podcast, arsenic per EW.

Starring other chap rom-com favorites Jennifer Lopez and Kate Hudson successful deed films similar The Wedding Planner (2001) and How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (2003) helped make McConaughey a household name.

But his unthinkable occurrence successful the genre became limiting to him arsenic an actor.

'But the lane was... I was truthful beardown successful that lane that thing extracurricular of that lane, dramas and worldly that I wanted to do, were like, no, no, no, no, nary McConaughey. Hollywood said no, no, no, no, you should enactment there, enactment there,' helium continued.

'I didn't privation to. So, since I couldn't bash what I wanted to do, I stopped doing what I was doing.'

McConaughey enactment his ft down successful a large mode by packing up and leaving Los Angeles for a simpler beingness connected a ranch successful Austin, Texas.

He told Kyrgios that he made a pact with his wife Camila Alves, 41 — with whom helium shares 3 kids — astatine the clip of the move.

'I went down determination and 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."'

After informing his cause of his caller program of action, McConaughey instantly began turning down lucrative movie roles, including the $14.5M enactment drama that helium wouldn't uncover to host Kyrgios.

He said it felt 'rebellious' to crook down specified a immense connection and that it proved to Hollywood that helium meant business.

'I deliberation that was the 1 that was astir apt what was seen arsenic the astir rebellious determination successful Hollywood by me, due to the fact that it truly sent the signal, helium ain't f***ing bluffing,' helium recalled. 

'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."'

After what helium described arsenic a fewer 'wobbly' years, McConaughey's large vocation determination yet paid disconnected and helium won his archetypal Academy Award for Dallas Buyers Club successful 2014.

He besides received captious acclaim arsenic a melodramatic histrion for his roles successful Mud (2013), Interstellar (2014) and the HBO constricted bid True Detective (2014).

'Look, man, the devil's successful the infinite yeses, not the no's. No, it's conscionable arsenic important, if not much important. Especially if you person immoderate level of occurrence and access,' McConaughey told Kyrgios of what the travel taught him.

'No becomes much important than yes. Because, I mean, we each look astir and spot we've overleveraged our beingness with yeses and gone, geez, oh, man, I'm making C minuses and each that s*** successful my beingness due to the fact that I said yes to excessively galore things.'

McConaughey has often spoken astir his Texas move and wherefore helium felt it was indispensable not conscionable for his vocation but for his household beingness with wife Camila.

The Lone Star State autochthonal and his spouse exchanged vows astatine their location successful Austin, Texas connected June 9, 2012, and officially moved backmost determination (from Malibu, California) 2 years later.

Last month, McConaughey shared connected TODAY with Hoda & Jenna that beingness successful Austin offers his household a consciousness of 'security' and that ever intended to instrumentality to Texas erstwhile helium welcomed children with Alves.

The mates stock 3 kids: Levi, 16, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11. 

'This has ever been home, I mean, there's aggregate reasons for [the move]. I mean, this is wherever I person a large narration with clip - meaning 60 seconds feels similar a minute, a mile feels similar a mile,' helium explained to the hosts.  

He added, 'I similar to unrecorded successful a spot and for a location to beryllium a spot wherever I person a bully narration with time.'

The Dallas Buyers Club prima noted that his household is based retired of Texas, including his mother, 92, and brothers who unrecorded successful Houston and Midland.

'Our household portion is present - we person resources and a backbone of information here,' The Lincoln Lawyer histrion added.

'I wanted them to person what I grew up around,' McConaughey said. 'There's a coagulated … magnitude of communal consciousness that runs done it, it's untalked about, but we recognize it here.'

He hailed Austin arsenic a 'very originative metropolis successful a authorities that is precise structured,' and 1 wherever radical are accepted for who they are.

McConaughey, who was calved successful Uvalde, Texas and raised successful Longview, Texas, went to assemblage astatine the University of Texas astatine Austin anterior to entering amusement business.

He remains an ardent instrumentality of the school's shot team, the Texas Longhorns, often appearing connected sidelines astatine games.

'The regularisation successful Austin is "Be You" - that's ever been the regularisation successful this metropolis - and we should marque definite that that remains the regularisation - conscionable "Be You,"' helium said.

In a associated interrogation for Southern Living earlier this year, McConaughey and Alves shared that though they were surviving a 'happy life' successful Malibu, Texas offered them a manner with nary 'drama' and much 'hospitality.'

Alves said that she knew heavy down that McConaughey wanted to determination backmost to Texas aft she witnessed firsthand however 'peaceful' helium was portion helium was there.

McConaughey said that surviving successful Texas has brought 'ritual' backmost to their household life. 

'Ritual came back, whether that was Sunday church, sports, meal unneurotic arsenic a household each night, oregon staying up aft that telling stories successful the kitchen, sitting astatine the land pouring drinks and nibbling portion retelling them each successful antithetic ways than we told them before,' helium explained.