Matthew McConaughey

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.

He didn't ever come to the set.

We didn't talk about it, but he was alive for me to start something that was more than...

more than a fad.

That was something that would become something that I love to do.

And I do miss, not him, you know, and then I go out of that.

We talked about him two nights ago with our daughter.

I was rubbing my daughter's feet.