Come on.’ I’m fully happy with that,” the 51-year-old, newly minted New York Times best-selling author recalled during a conversation with Tim McGraw on the latter’s Beyond the Influence Radio show on Apple Music Country.
Though he didn’t single out specific titles, McConaughey’s rom-com run included 2001’s The Wedding Planner opposite Jennifer Lopez, 2003’s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days opposite Kate Hudson, 2006’s Failure to Launch opposite Sarah Jessica Parker, 2008’s Fool’s Gold opposite Hudson and 2009’s Ghosts of Girlfriends Past opposite Jennifer Garner.
They go to $12.5, I said, ‘No, thank you.’ They go to $14.5, I said, ‘Let me read that script again.’ Let me tell you, at $14.5 million, it was the same words as the $8 million offer, but it was a more well-written script, sir.
“As soon as I was spiritually sound with ‘I may not go back to Hollywood, I’m going to do something else maybe in my life, I didn’t need it.’ I wasn’t looking a new good idea for Lincoln Lawyer, for Killer Joe, for Magic Mike, for Mud, for True Detective, for Dallas Buyer’s Club?” he explained.