Matthew McConaughey turned down rom-com roles and moved to Texas with Camila, then faced six months without work. His agent backed the decision, but McConaughey spiraled with anxiety that he'd left Hollywood for good.
No matter how big of a pay cut I would say I'd take, they weren't offering them. So I said, well, if I can't do what I want to do, I'm going to quit doing what I've been doing, which was the rom-coms. Packed up, moved to Texas. All right, here we go. Camila's on board, I'm on board, my agent's on board. We'll show them. You guys know where to find me. But they weren't looking for him. They didn't— they weren't trying to find McConaughey. It was just fine that McConaughey had left town, right? So a few romantic comedy offers came in early. I was like, immediately like, nope, nope, nope, nope. Then nothing started to come in. We get to about 6 months, no work. I'm still feeling strong, but I'm feeling like, huh, I might have just written my ass a one-way ticket out of Hollywood.
