Matthew McConaughey

Yeah.

That let me inside who he was in his heart and who he wanted to be and what he was hoping to be and trying to be but couldn't quite pull off.

I mean, I hope so.

I get, I look, there's a tenacity to survive that I got.

From him.

Look, hopefully I can try and find some of that in different ways in any character that I go play.

Because if you really want to give a character an obstacle to overcome, a need, I mean, the base one is life and death.

Whether that's the need to survive or the need to stave off extinction.

I'm not talking about what the rules, the laws are, the social mores, the manners and graces.

You gonna fight for your own life in a world that's not supporting you to do so?

There's a wonderful courage of, okay, watch this.

My life?

or I'm in charge of extending it, get out of the way.

And I'll pick your pocket along the way, whatever it takes.

So there's a tenacity to live by whatever means necessary to survive that I'm reminded of, that I learned from Ron.

The freedom of being on an island.

He was such a singular character and of a singular mind.

And as you know, it wasn't a dance party up there in his mind.

It was some heavy stuff.

But also existentially for him, always like death would be a deliverance for him.