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Matthew McConaughey Made a Pact With His Wife After Leaving Hollywood for Texas: ‘I’m Not Going Back Unless I Get Offered Roles’ That Aren’t Rom-Coms
Matthew McConaughey left Hollywood and moved to Texas when the only offers he was getting was to star in romantic comedy movies.
Matthew McConaughey recently told Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios on the latter’s “Good Trouble” podcast that he abandoned Hollywood and moved his family to Texas when the industry refused to let him branch out of romantic comedies. The Oscar winner was a titan of the genre at the time, with films like “The Wedding Planner,” “How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days,” “Failure To Launch,” “Fool’s Gold,” and “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” all surpassing or coming close to the $100 million mark at the worldwide box office. He revealed in his 2020 memoir that he was offered $14.5 million to return to the rom-com genre in a new movie, but he turned the money down because he didn’t want to go back to being pigeonholed.
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