Matthew McConaughey continues to be raking in residuals from one in every of his most well-known motion pictures.
The “True Detective” actor admitted that “How one can Lose a Man in 10 Days,” his hit 2003 film co-starring Kate Hudson, is “the present that retains on giving.”
McConaughey mentioned on the “Blissful Unhappy Confused” podcast on Thursday it’s “most likely my favourite rom-com that I’ve ever completed and lots of people love that rom-com.”
“And it nonetheless pays the most effective mailbox cash of any movie I’ve ever completed,” he shared. “By far. By lengths.”
He even clarified that there’s a selected time of yr when his checks was better than common.
“When it was simply DVDs or cable, each March I’d get a giant verify as a result of Valentine’s Day,” McConaughey mentioned.
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And whereas the actor definitely appreciates cash, he as soon as revealed that he turned down an eye-watering sum as a way to give attention to extra severe roles.
“I used to be getting amount, however I wasn’t getting the standard,” he mentioned on the “Diary of a CEO” podcast final yr, referencing the roles he was being provided after a string of profitable rom-coms. “What I wish to do is dramas, however Hollywood received’t provide me one, regardless of how large a pay reduce I take.”
When the trade wasn’t taking him critically, he mentioned he determined “to give up doing what I’ve been doing.”
“Informed my agent, ‘No extra rom-coms,’” McConaughey mentioned.
However after a interval of no performing, an unimaginable provide got here his method for an motion comedy and a suggestion of $8 million.
“I learn it. I mentioned, ‘No, thanks, that’s the stuff I’m not doing,’” he recalled. “They arrive again with a $10 million provide, ‘I’m not studying that once more, no thanks.’ They arrive again with a $12 million provide. ‘Guys, inform them I mentioned no thanks.’”
“They arrive again with a $14.5 million provide. I mentioned, ‘Let me learn that once more,’” McConaughey mentioned with amusing.
He “in the end mentioned no,” and later carved a path as a dramatic actor.
“I feel that me saying no to that $14.5 million provide, a yr into me leaving and saying ‘no extra rom-coms,’ I feel me doing that despatched the message by way of Hollywood, ‘Oh ― McConaughey just isn’t bluffing,’” he mentioned.
