He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film Contact , the historical drama Amistad , and the war film U In , after a two-year hiatus from film acting, McConaughey began to appear in more dramatic roles, beginning with the legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer.
In , he gained wider praise for his roles as a stripper in Magic Mike and a fugitive in Mud. His subsequent film roles include starring in Interstellar and The Gentlemen , as well as voice work in Kubo and the Two Strings , Sing , and Sing 2 He was released before the season began and never played an official league game in the NFL.
He is a relative of Confederate brigadier general Dandridge McRae. In , he went to Australia thinking he would be attending a high school in Sydney. His original plan changed as he had wanted to attend Southern Methodist University until one of his brothers told him that private-school tuition would have been a burden on the family's finances.
He had planned to attend law school after graduation from college [ 18 ] but discovered he did not have any interest in becoming a lawyer. In the early s, McConaughey began working in television commercials. He was not originally cast in the film, as the role of Wooderson was originally small and meant to be cast locally for budget purposes.
That's Don Phillips. He cast Sean Penn in Fast Times. During production, another character named Pickford was meant to be a larger role. Due to the behavior of the actor playing Pickford with other cast members, his screen time was cut in favor of McConaughey's character, Wooderson.
