Stars often speak humbly about their projects, but True Detectiveseason 1 was so good that Matthew McConaughey couldn't help but sing its praises. Premiering in 2014, the first season of True Detectivestars McConaughey as Rustin "Rust" Cohle, an introspective loner detective who teams up with the hotheaded Detective Martin "Marty" Hart (Woody Harrelson) to investigate the murder of a 28-year-old woman in Louisiana. True Detective season 1 was widely considered to be one of the best shows of 2014, and McConaughey and Harrelson both picked up Emmy nominations for their work. 4h5s1z

Matthew McConaughey is now set to star in a new movie from Paul Greengrass. Greengrass is a talented director who has been previously nominated for an Oscar for Best Director for his work helming the 9/11 docudrama United 93. Even if he was not individually recognized, his subsequent films have also received nominations, including Captain Phillips, which was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture. McConaughey is also no stranger to award-winning work; he won Best Actor in 2014 for his leading role in Dallas Buyers Club.

Interstellar actors Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet reunited at a college football game ten years after the movie released in theaters. Interstellar is a critically-acclaimed science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, and follows McConaughey's Cooper, a former astronaut, who sets out on a mission to find a habitable planet for humankind to move to. To do so, Cooper must leave his daughter and son, played by Chalamet, behind. In addition to McConaughey and Chalamet, the cast of Interstellarincludes Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Mackenzie Foy, John Lithgow, and Michael Caine.

Matthew McConaughey's first major villain role was in The Dark Tower, and it will soon be remade by horror writer and director Mike Flanagan. Most of Matthew McConaughey's best movies put him in heroic roles: Dallas Buyers Club's Ron Woodroof became a hero by the film's ending, and Interstellar's Cooper is the definition of a tragic hero. It's rare that the actor plays a villain, but he got a chance to play his first major antagonist when he ed the cast of The Dark Tower in 2017.

Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba's 2017 sci-fi Western adaptation of a Stephen King novel is now streaming on Netflix, which is a great sign for the franchise's future. Some of Matthew McConaughey's best movies are the ones that cast him against type. For instance, in 2013, no one expected much out of McConaughey in of dramatic acting, yet Dallas Buyers' Club won him an Oscar and the following year Interstellar became one of his most beloved roles. While not every experiment has been a success for McConaughey, they all do bring something exciting.

Matthew McConaughey explains why he once turned down a big action-comedy. McConaughey has been in Hollywood for over three decades now, getting his start playing David Wooderson in the 1993 Richard Linklater comedy Dazed and Confused. From there, McConaughey's early career was defined by a combination of his goofy intonations on words as well as his status as a romantic lead in films like The Wedding Planner and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Since then, the actor has gone on to make a wide variety of films, even winning an Oscar in 2014.

Matthew McConaughey'smovies have cemented him as one of the most versatile actors working in Hollywood, maintaining a good balance between comedies and profound dramas. McConaughey has been a major presence in movies since the early '90s, following his breakout performance in the cult classic Dazed and Confused. He became a leading man and then fell into an era of forgettable rom-coms before staging one of the best Hollywood comebacks, leading to his Oscar win in 2014.

Netflix now offers one of Matthew McConaughey's best and most lucrative movie performances. It s a handful of titles provided by the streaming service that collectively express the range and longevity of McConaughey's film catalog, including the 2000 submarine action thriller U-571 and the more recent 2020 irreverent dark comedy The Gentleman. The Wedding Planner, a throwback to McConaughey's rom-com era, and the relatively new adult animation Agent Elvis, one of the rare times the big-name film actor took part in a TV series, are also available for Netflix streamers.

Matthew McConaughey has a long and extensive movie career, and after looking back on his filmography, I find it shocking that one of the actor's best movies is so criminally underrated. McConaughey's breakthrough came in the early 1990s when he appeared in one of his first feature films — Dazed and Confused. The 1993 coming-of-age comedy, directed by Richard Linklater, featured McConaughey as David Wooderson, a ing but memorable character. One of McConaughey's most unforgettable movie moments even came in Dazed and Confused. He uttered the line, "Alright, alright, alright," and the rest is history.

Matthew McConaughey started his career in the rom-com genre, which could have prevented him from snagging some of his now iconic roles.