{"id":133865,"date":"2024-11-20T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/matthew-mcconaughey-grew-tired-of-being-the-rom-com-dude\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:02:51","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-grew-tired-of-being-the-rom-com-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/matthew-mcconaughey-grew-tired-of-being-the-rom-com-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey grew tired of being &#8216;the rom-com dude&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-11-20\" datetime=\"1732118571\" pubdate=\"\">20 November 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/matthew-mcconaughey\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,matthew-mcconaughey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a> moved to Texas because he became tired of being Hollywood&#8217;s &#8220;rom-com dude&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Matthew McConaughey has explained his move to Texas<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old actor enjoyed a huge amount of success with a series of rom-com movies, such as &#8216;The Wedding Planner&#8217; and &#8216;How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days&#8217;, but Matthew ultimately wanted to take his career in another direction.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew said on the &#8216;Good Trouble&#8217; podcast: &#8220;I was the rom-com dude, man, that was my lane, and I liked that lane. That lane paid well and it was working.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the lane was \u2026 I was so strong in that lane that anything outside of that lane, dramas and stuff that I wanted to do, were like, &#8216;no, no, no, no, no McConaughey.&#8217; Hollywood said, &#8216;no, no, no, no, you should stay there, stay there.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matthew made a conscious decision to stop making rom-coms and he&#8217;s now happy to remain in Texas until the right on-screen roles come his way.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe award-winning actor &#8211; who was born and raised in Texas &#8211; said: &#8220;So, since I couldn\u2019t do what I wanted to do, I stopped doing what I was doing. And I moved down to the ranch in Texas, and I went down there and I made a pact with my wife and said, \u2018I\u2019m not going back to work unless I get offered roles I want to do.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBy contrast, Matthew acknowledged that he &#8220;said yes to too many things&#8221; earlier in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe explained: &#8220;I mean, we all look around and see we\u2019ve over-leveraged our life with yeses and gone, &#8216;geez, oh, man, I\u2019m making C-minuses and all that s*** in my life because I said yes to too many things.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/matthew-mcconaughey-grew-tired-rom-com-dude-1409402.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 November 2024 Matthew McConaughey moved to Texas because he became tired of being Hollywood&#8217;s &#8220;rom-com dude&#8221;. Matthew McConaughey has explained his move to Texas The 55-year-old actor enjoyed a huge amount of success with a series of rom-com movies, such as &#8216;The Wedding Planner&#8217; and &#8216;How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days&#8217;, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1517],"class_list":{"0":"post-133865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-matthew-mcconaughey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}