Matthew McConaughey revealed on the “No Magic Pill” podcast (through People) that he as soon as exiled himself from Hollywood and lived with out electrical energy for 22 days in Peru when the pressures of early fame grew to become an excessive amount of for him to deal with. He completely glided by Mateo throughout this era as to additional disassociate himself from his superstar standing.
“I needed to get my feet on the ground,” McConaughey mentioned. “So I click out. Boom. Go to Peru. I needed to find it, to check the validation. I knew I had it, I just had to go prove it again. But I did question, now that I just got famous, I’ve got all this affiliation for this and that and the other. And I’m trying to decipher which part’s real, which part’s bullshit.”
The primary 12 days of McConaughey’s pilgrimage had been “wonky” however the again half proved enlightening for him, he defined: “I was now at the place long enough to go, ‘I could live this. This could be my existence.’ As soon as you go, ‘I could do this,’ then you’re like, ‘Well, I can return home.’”
“I needed to meet people who knew me as Mateo,” McConaughey added. “And at the end of 22 days, the tears in their eyes and the tears in my eyes and the hugs we had on the sadness and happiness of saying goodbye were all based off of the man they met named Mateo, who had nothing to do with the celebrity. It reaffirmed my own identity that, ‘Oh, I still got it. This is based on me.’”
McConaughey’s Peru exodus was within the early days of his stardom. He would exile himself from Hollywood once more years later by shifting his household to Texas after he grew pissed off with the city for limiting his performing profession to rom-coms after turning into a family identify in hits like “The Wedding Planner,” “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” and extra.
The Oscar winner mentioned in an Interview magazine discussion final yr that “it was scary” to depart Hollywood whereas his profession was so profitable. He even thought that shifting to Texas would imply he would wish to discover a new job.
“I think I’m going to teach high school classes. I think I’m going to study to be a conductor. I think I’m going to go be a wildlife guide,” the actor mentioned, including that his choice to then flip down a $14.5 million rom-com supply is what advised Hollywood he was not messing round. “That was probably seen as the most rebellious move in Hollywood by me because it really sent the signal, ‘He ain’t fucking bluffing.’”
