Let's face it: Matthew McConaughey is really, really good at romantic comedy. Let's walk down the memory Lane, let's do a wedding planner in 2001 with Jennifer Lopez. How to lose a man in 2003 with Kate Hudson in 10 days (and later in 2008 Fool's gold). He terminated his contract with Sarah Jessica Parker in 2006. Jennifer Garner and the ghost of a past girlfriend in 2009. On. And on. And on. Indeed, for almost all of the decade that was aughts, McConaughey was typecast as the rom-com king — and he didn't like it.

Speaking to fellow Texas native Glenn Powell for an interview magazine, McConaughey told Powell—who himself is a burgeoning rom-com star, not anyone of the opposite of Sydney Sweeney—last year after your role-after he felt it was all his career would reach. He "had to leave Hollywood for two years".

Before winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role at the Dallas Buyers Club in 2013, McConaughey interrupted — something he thought might be permanent. "I usually zigzag when Hollywood wanted to zag," McConaughey told Powell. "When I had my rom-com years, there was as much bandwidth as I could give them, and those were some solid hits for me. But I wanted to try some other things.

After Powell asked what he was doing while he was away, McConaughey said, "Hey, I was scared. I had a long conversation with my wife about the need to find a new profession.He told his wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, that he was considering teaching high school, studying music and working as a 'wildlife guide' during this period.

"I honestly thought, "I got out of Hollywood. I got out of my lane," McConaughey said. Lane Hollywood said I should stay. And Hollywood said, "Well, fuck you, man." You should have stayed in your lane. Later.

McConaughey was not specified when the two-year hiatus took place, but by 2013, he had appeared in films like the aforementioned Dallas Buyers Club, The Wolf of Wall Street, Interstellar and Hbo's True Detective.

"It was scary," he said of his interruptions. "The days are long - a sense of meaninglessness. But it was scary because I was not going to pull the parachute and finish the mission I was on because I made my mind that that was what I needed to do.”