Esquire: I woefully underestimated Matthew McConaughey

I didn’t want to write about Matthew McConaughey. By the time the assignment came to me, somewhere in 2011, I thought we were too late. In the previous decade, I’d given irreplaceable hours of my life to sitting through McConaughey’s shit movies (Failure to Launch, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, The Wedding Planner, Sahara, Two for the Money, and so on). And while I’d always liked him, from Dazed and Confused right through to the obsequious agent he played in Tropic Thunder, I had pretty much decided that he was done, that he’d blown his chance. More…