Fascinating: Matthew McConaughey on What Excites Him About America
The famous actor also talked about faith and why his mother wouldn’t allow him to answer to the nickname "Matt."
(Hollywood, CA) — [The Gospel Herald] – Throughout his acting career, McConaughey, 46, mostly has kept his personal views private, however, his idiosyncratic characters have been opinionated, reports TWC Central. Ever since his early career-defining role in Dazed and Confused, the actor often chose oddball characters for his roles.
As Fenton Meiks in Bill Paxton's 2001 thriller Frailty, McConaughey's character's father becomes infused with religious fervor, which makes him a "righteous killer" of sorts, prompting allegorical connections to killer saints and Biblical vengeance.
McConaughey also likes metaphysically challenging roles, such as Mud in 2012's Mud, his skeptical prosecutor in Bernie, or his time-hopping astronaut in Interstellar.
McConaughey's latest movie, The Free State of Jones, explores a controversial figure in U.S. History. Newton Knight generally is thought of in morally ambiguous terms. The Confederate Army defector, who turned pro-Union booster, led an armed rebellion of Southern Unionists and freed men from the swamps of Mississippi. Once led merely by libertarianism, Knight found inspiration in the Bible. Equally stirred by the eye-for-an-eye approach as the love-thy-neighbor concept, the rebellious man's most powerful legacy seems to be in stirring others to stand up for human equality.
McConaughey's character remained true to the literal roots of the Biblical spirit, which he ..
Click here to continue reading.
The Gospel Herald
