Matthew McConaughey Interview - Fool's Gold Movie Premiere
Matthew McConaughey reunites with Kate Hudson for Fool's Gold, their second romantic comedy together. On the red carpet at the film's world premiere, McConaughey talked about teaming up again with Hudson and life on the very interesting set.
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Transcript: Matthew McConaughey Interview - Fool's Gold Movie Premiere
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the World Premiere of Fool's Gold.
Matthew McConaughey ('Finn')
Why is your shirt on in that poster?
Matthew McConaughey: "You can see a little bit."
And Kate has a bikini.
Matthew McConaughey: "You don't want to advertise everything up front."
But it's a movie for women.
Matthew McConaughey: "No, I wear a T-shirt throughout this thing. I had to steal that one T-shirt though."
Did you?
Matthew McConaughey: "Yeah, because my boat blows up at the beginning and everything I have is on it. And I steal the next T-shirt, too. And then the suit is given to me."
Yes, but this is a movie for women so why aren't you naked or practically naked?
Matthew McConaughey: "Come and check it out! Come and have a look! What do you want me, up there in a Speedo so you can laugh? No."
That would be fine.
Matthew McConaughey: "No. Come and see it. She looks good in a bikini, doesn't she?"
How was working with Kate again?
Matthew McConaughey: "We had a ball."
It's been a couple of years, right?
Matthew McConaughey: "It's been four years, yeah."
Has she changed much?
Matthew McConaughey: "Not really. Things have changed in her life. She's a mother now and stuff but she didn't change that much. No."
Was it easy to reconnect?
Matthew McConaughey: "You know, we didn't have to work at it. Part of what works for her and I is you feel us connected, but then we're very disconnected. You feel us get together, but then we're in a fight. You feel us, you know, love each other and then we can't stand each other. And that works the same way with her and I in real life. It's great. We come [together] and then we're a pain in each other's backside, but then we come back together. There's a brother and sister thing that we kind of…I don't know. It kind of works."
And then she hits you with a cane.
Matthew McConaughey: "And then she hits me with a cane. But then she wants to divorce. I've just got to get her head right. I've got to get her head right. She's off in Neptune. I don't know where she is."
And this whole diving thing is comfortable for you?
Matthew McConaughey: "Yeah, I've done that before. But I got over 100 dives in this one, on the show. On the show."
Wow. How do you keep in shape to do that?
Matthew McConaughey: "Want some of these M&Ms?"
Why did someone give you M&Ms?
Matthew McConaughey: "I got handed these very early. Want some? Diving, no, you don't have to be in that good a shape to dive. No, not to dive you don't."
Were you afraid of the jellyfish and the sharks? That's a very dangerous place.
Matthew McConaughey: "Irukandji, sharks… I had two pythons in my tree where I was living. Two pythons – 8 ½ foot amethystine pythons living in a coconut tree right out in front of my spot. Everything's cool when I see he's in the tree everyday, but then I come home after a month and he's gone. Now you don't sleep so well. Checking under the bed, under the mattress, in every single closet and I couldn't find that SOB. So, it was a wild shoot. We had sharks. I'm diving and I see bull sharks coming by. Thankfully we weren't on the menu. The one thing that ran us out was this little jellyfish called the Irukandji. It's this little thing the size of your pinkie nail. It came in these waters; it spawns at this certain time of year when the water is a certain temperature. It attacks the central nervous system and you have to go, the pain is so much you have to go to the hospital and get on a morphine drip for 72 hours. Well, that doesn't sound like too much fun so we moved locations twice. But that was part of the fun of it is that it was a pretty good adventure in the making of it, you know?"
You knew that's what you were signing on for.
Matthew McConaughey: "Yeah, yeah."
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