Matthew McConaughey

Now, when do I think about him?

I thought about him yesterday, working through a script I'm working on right now, working on scene work.

And I just had that quick little reaction of wanting to show him, hey, check this scene.

That's right.

And then I don't get sad.

I go, he would have loved this.

Whereas my mom,

wants to be on the stage, my dad would have been on the front row.

Yeah.

And he would have, you know, as what he would, we would have, he was a character.

He knew characters.

I've based parts of all kinds of,

characters I've played and the man that I am on people that he introduced me to and who he was.

He would have loved the creative process of working on a script or talking about, hey, movie.

It's why I always say I love the movie Mud because it's the one that I visualized and seen my dad come to me so many times as a 12-year-old and put his arm around me and go, hey, little buddy, you seen this movie called Mud?

God damn it, it's a good one.

Let's go watch it.

That.

Now, my dad never got to see me start a career in film, but he was alive five days into the... He overlapped the first five days of me working on my first film, Days Confused.

Now that, I think there's something beautiful about that.