Actor Matthew McConaughey Talks HBO's True Detective - 6/22/16

I want to ask you before I let you go about true detective yeah and how mind-blowing it was when you first got a script how long did you have to soak in these soliloquy yeah and these monologue yeah yeah how long did that what was that process well they came to me first for the role of Marty that would he play ah all right and I looked at it I understood why they came to me for that but I went back and I said you know what the guy I cannot wait to hear what comes out of his mouth is this rustic old guy he's just arresting me every time I read something comes out of his mouth so I spent the the crater Nick Pitts a lot of who wrote it I spent you know months in every single weekend going over these soliloquy there's you know the the interrogation room mm-hmm we shot that in a day Oh 28 pages and I just said to madame eyes it entered into huge just at seven different bubbles what I do is I break it down we used to do this in school just get to know my understand the dialogue first and I break it down to one sentence would trigger an entire thought that I would go off and then I break it down to a word so I'd have these pods and I'd have like eight words and then break the word down to a letter and I have eight letters and each letter sent me off into a five-minute run-on and I get to the next one and connect the dots and I remember that day we were in there for about 18 hours we'd shot about 24 pages they were like everybody we were wiped can we go home and I was like no we're not going home no I'm finishing this I'm in the belly of the beast we're gonna finish this now where they all stayed on and we finished it late that night and where did the making little figurines out of pieces of the tin can coming did that's he wrote that okay that was written no are you just somebody from well I'm calm come over there but then somebody puts when we cut over there and then you cut back to me and of course I'm owning it like I've just finished the last you just have honed it perfectly like in arts and crafts yeah I mean and when you you were taking it in to assimilate it though did you what what did you think of this writing that was coming your way and that you were now able to as an actor well it's great what I see with the writing so good I didn't have to if I didn't feel like I had to act so to speak I didn't I didn't have rusting coals never soliciting someone to try and talk him into something hmm you know that was part of what's great about him he was on his he was on an island you know well feel sorry for you if you're living in his head I mean jeez a man what was going on that man's head but just to deliver it and truthfully and actually look at this stuff and go and I am a believer but to look at that stuff and go geez man he's got a point maybe that is true maybe it is all flat circle you know what I mean so just to own it delivered as a hard truth that understanding that these people may not understand it that he's talking to the interrogators and you know what he's doing he's interrogating them as you know by watching it and so I it was just great dialogue and made it you know I didn't have to try to do too much or throw much lonny up on it and um would you ever consider going back to see what is going on in the lines with Russ Cole yeah I would I miss Russ Coleman I miss watching him on Sunday night which why I miss watching true detective on Sunday night me too and I miss uh I was I was a happy man while we made that for six months because I was on my own Island um and luckily my wife put up with me um and she said I was actually pretty nice when I came home um yeah I would you know I've talked to Nick about it it would have to be the right context the right way that thing when I read it I knew in 20 minutes I was like if I can play this guy Rustin cohle I'm in so the thought of me going people have said what about you going from the big screen to the small screen that used to be a little more of a sort of taboo kind of idea to do not plus if it's great quality you're actually getting better quality dramas on the small screen today than you ever have been a lot better than you get on big screen sometimes well I mean you could also get into a character over ten episodes that you couldn't get it was two hours 450 page script my biggest challenge with that was remember the first three episodes rusting coal is pretty subdued but you see the you know things are bullying something's great yeah so I actually with 450 page script I had to do that for whatever 160 pages and I started to think after about six weeks is this is what I'm doing boring is it flat and I wanted to sort of jazz it up a little bit I said no mcconaughey have patience you're about to become you know Rustin cohle and he goes off the off the rails and gets back in the game and starts you know going after the bikers trust that that when you get that extraverted that wild that dynamic of you slowly boiling underneath right now will work and I think it did and knowing the character do you think he's a sports fan rust the rust and cold you sit around and watch the Super Bowl what do you sit around and watch the golf like what do you think just doing the character but he would he would he sit there in the 50-yard line and root against the Cowboys no mokou might have a little uh he probably enjoyed listen to Joe Morgan on Sunday Night Baseball in the background because it kind of kept a nice low-level pulse approach the Rich Eisen show weekdays at noon eastern on audience

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Length: 5min 44sec (344 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 22 2016