KILLEEN: Matthew McConaughey’s upcoming film about a journey beyond the stars may as well be about the Texas actor's own stratospheric career these days.
From winning his best actor Oscar in March for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ to his lead role in the highly anticipated space-exploration drama ‘Interstellar’ set to become one of the year's biggest movies, McConaughey has rocketed to a level of stardom unlike anything he said he has ever experienced before and he loves it, the actor told Reuters.
“I’m enjoying my career now more than ever,” he said during a preview screening for military families at Fort Hood Army base.
McConaughey, 44, takes the lead in ‘Interstellar’, out in theaters on Nov. 7, the latest film by ‘Dark Knight’ director Christopher Nolan.
McConaughey plays Cooper, a widowed father and former pilot grounded by his own circumstances, the defunding of space exploration, and other grim developments leading to Earth's fast-approaching demise. Then Cooper is called upon to head deep into outer space to find a new galaxy for humanity to call home, but he faces leaving his family to pursue mankind's salvation.
Playing homophobic AIDS sufferer Ron Woodroof in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ earned the actor a ‘Golden Globe’ and Screen ‘Actor’s Guild award’.
McConaughey is being drawn back to his lighter roots, saying he is currently conceptualizing his own comedy. The actor betrays nothing else but a sly grin about the ‘comedy up my sleeve’. The actor said his most exciting and challenging role is being a father to his three young children with his Brazilian model wife, Camila Alves.
“It's a brand new movie every day,” he added with a laugh. His decision to star in ‘Interstellar’ was inspired by his oldest, 6-year-old Levi, who wants to invent a spacesuit that will let him walk on the sun. “I'm really turned on with what I'm doing day to day, in work and personally,” he said. “I'm happy to be able to say that. It's not guaranteed, for sure.”
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