Matthew McConaughey Grunts it Out While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

and we just hit the moment where neither one of us want to go take a number one and touch our you-know-what because we will now know why it would be burning hey what's going on everybody for first week feast i'm shawn evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by matthew mcconaughey he's an academy award-winning actor you know from films like magic mike dallas buyers club interstellar and countless others his latest project however is a memoir titled green lights which is set to release on october 20th matthew mcconaughey welcome to the show hey good to be here sean i'm hungry too well speaking of hungry i saw that jalapeno loaded cheeseburger that you made with aaron franklin earlier this year so i take it you're a guy who likes the spicy food i do like spicy food i mean look been able to travel around the world pick out different spices all over um i'm not the guy that chases down the ghost pepper to just see how much i can tolerate which might be what i'm going to be doing here in the next hour but um i do i do like a little kick to to my food [Music] classic garlic fresh easy on out [Music] garlic up front not too spicy comes on the second gear let you know it's got a little hit to it [Music] so i want to start by talking about your upcoming book green lights which you describe as a love letter to life chalk full of stories and memories from keeping a diary for over 36 years and you really went full henry thoreau at walden pond to write it holding yourself up in the desert for 52 days with no electricity do you typically seek out that level of solitude when you're writing i'm pretty fond of taking backpack trips on my own to places where nobody knows my name and they don't speak the language for 22 days or less or more um so that's a form of solitary confinement you go someplace where nobody knows your name and they don't speak the language um so to write this i've been daring myself to open that treasure chest of diaries and actually go see what the hell it all was if i could make a book out of it for years and finally i got a little time off that treasure chest diary started barking at me going come on mcconaughey dare you dare you about the same time my wife goes you know what you got to do get the hell out of here pack everything up so i packed up my food my water my booze and i loaded all my diaries in and went out to a cabin in the middle of the desert what happened in those diaries where they fell into seven categories they were stories people places poems prayers pre-scribes and a whole lot of bump stickers and so i was like okay here's my seven kyle there's my eight columns um and then i went back home checked in on my honeydews did my work caught up and then popped out for another 12 days so i did it five different times for about 10 to 12 days a piece this is a very good looking label by the way dawson's that's actually sweeter than the first one oh that's that's a winner already i'm gonna move that out front a little bit dawson that's real good so in 2019 you were minted as the minister of culture at your alma mater the university of texas which as i understand it is a position that kind of oversees the intersection of tradition sports and commerce within the athletic department when you took that position what were some of the specific changes that you thought needed to happen in order to define a culture within that capitalistic ecosystem of major college sports yeah so within the university it started off me saying look the same values that create a championship team on the field are the same values that can create a champion in the classroom that can go off and do good through their education and learn to be an expert in something so let's get those aligned and then it worked its way into sort of architecture and the interior design of our new arena what's the relationship for the crowd with the team how do we make it the first place that any band wants to play in the world but the last place any visiting team wants to come play well a lot of that's engineering where's the student section how close to the floor what's the pitch is it standing room only where is it standing room only how can you be up in the cheaper seats but still have a great experience in the in the arena and not just be up in the cheap seat how can each area of the arena have a different experience how do we make sure we're bringing local retailers food and beverage from austin into the arena things like that and then i'm also working with austin fc the uh our new our new football club soccer club doing the same stuff [Music] oh by the way that little one i was saying is so sweet a minute ago halfway into me talking to you it had a little late came back in overtime and kind of still got a little spicy [Music] okay it's almost more of a jamaican jerk fellow sweetness plus pepper in it so matthew you've been so prolific in film over the last 25 years it'd be impossible to check every box but we'll try to hit some highlights here while you enjoy that wing i read that christopher nolan refused to use green screen while making interstellar what's the most jaw-dropping set you saw actually physically built for a scene in that film the test rack that again wasn't a green screen i was dealing with a physical tesseract and they were i'd push off of it and i was on the pull and they i was 80 feet above the ground swinging out and they'd swing me back and we rehearsed that quite a bit um just to be done safely and looked like zero gravity but the test rack was a massive set that was built so many other things you think nolan does massive not when you have like cooper falling through space nolan's over on on like a there's a tripod and there's a uh like a 12 foot metal uh pipe and i just strapped to that and nolan's on the other side like a seesaw just maneuvering it left and right he's like he was like he was in film school at university and that's and that's what you could come up with which was a more nerve-wracking on-set experience the on-stage thong scene and magic mike are petting a live tiger in gold ah that's a great question i gotta go with magic mike because somebody somebody's hand when i was down there went a little far and i and i was like whoa this is about it and i snuck out i snuck out of there just in time to come out as covered as i could be yeah now touching that damn tiger was a different kind of buzz i remember the heartbeat started racing a little bit right there going and then finally you've been in some of the most beloved and highest grossing rom-coms of all time yeah what are the hallmarks of a good romantic comedy like when they work what makes them work yeah here's what it is so listen i've thought a lot about this because we all know what's gonna happen in the rom-com boy meets girl uh some reason they break up boy chases girl hops on a moped or a bridge or somewhere at the end boy catches girl they get together then we know that's the story so what we got to do is say can we enjoy that journey if we already know where the story is going to end up it's really so important about who the two leads are here's the here's the third thing a good one has it lets the audience in on a joke that one of the characters doesn't know meaning if you for people that enjoy how to lose a guy they would enjoy it when they the audience knew something and i my character knew something how i was going to do k in a scene when she didn't know it so they were in on the joke oh we're going to get her and then vice versa when the audience was in on something with her character where she was duping me the audience is having a whole lot of fun going yeah yeah he's about to get screwed over you know that was a lot of the fun in the inner activity that i think people enjoy about rom-coms when they do enjoy them [Music] here we go [Music] got a molasses in it yeah and a little more kick i think than the first three yeah especially yeah comes in low and longer angry goat you'd figure an angry goat without a little bit of kick yeah so i know that you're a highwayman at heart sometimes driving 1700 miles on a whim and uninterrupted and i know that in the early 2000s you went from concert to baseball game to wherever the wind took you on an airstream trailer you nicknamed canoe which part of the country besides your beloved texas did you find the friendliest most down to help you with directions type people people like to say that like new yorkers are you know gruff they don't want to have i've always found new yorkers to be great at like helping with directing now mind you new yorkers aren't looking to see looking for people to say hey can i help you no they're on the way doing something but when you stop one uh and get their attention i always found they get a great direction what i find most interesting about your experience in particular as you were doing this before there was like ubiquitous internet and cell phone coverage but you were really just right there in the middle of your career what's like the biggest hot shot hollywood meeting that you ever did at like a roadside rest stop or at a campsite yeah well see this this is what i would do so if i had a big meeting and i did have quite a few [Music] i would pick directors up in one place and then drive towards my destination dropped them off at the airport there and they'd fly out it was always fun when that like i was headed towards somewhere real cool and be like oh i'll just come pick you up in vegas as i'm pulling out or you know um roger clemens is pitching three nights from now i'm gonna i'm headed up there to go watch him pitch or king to leon somewhere playing in the concert i'm actually heading there in three days hop in i'll drop you off and those are all i hit every single state besides north dakota i got a feeling this is going to sneak up a little bit [Music] okay let's see [Music] come on [Music] i like the setup and i got a feeling my sentences are about to start getting shorter all right matthew wherever you're current segment on our show called explain that gram where we do a deep dive on our guest instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context so i'll show you the picture you just tell us the bigger story yeah first things first you were on the sidelines at the 2006 rose ball game which many sports writers call the greatest college football game of all time what is your lasting memory of that vince young when he was playing it was almost like 14 versus 11 and you saw he did that national championship game against usc he had such poise in that game and was having so much fun he was able to be so present in that game that there was a television timeout in the third quarter when we were down by about 10 points i don't know what it was they brought out three usc alumni on the opposite end of the field to just sort of be the correct they were going to announce their name and the crowd was going to go great alumni they achieved these things vince left the huddle ran down took off his helmet and shook all their hands and met him and the ref had to come home and go hey gotta get back to the game we're starting he's like oh yeah that's how president that guy was he knew we were going to win that game he knew we were going to score on that final drive when we did beat usc he knew it arguably the best one of those college players there's ever been when we had justin timberlake on the show he said you have to get woody harrelson on hot ones you've described him as one of the last wild men walking on earth and a longtime friend what's going on in this picture oh yeah that's my brother right there so obviously so you know this is uh i would say this is probably uh towards the a.m towards the beginning of an a.m or maybe just into it a.m [Laughter] i love it and with there is you don't hear it but there is uh i think metallica's playing extremely loudly on major concert size speakers and lars ulrich may be there just outside of the frame and a few other people uh that that are in the rock and roll business and uh we are breaking a sweat on the dan on the dance floor even though there's really not a dance floor um we're breaking the sweat getting it out right now shaking and shaking our tail feather put some elbow grease into it all right we're into this little guy here heartbeat hot sauce thunder bay ontario i got a good friend from thunder bay what's up repino so some fans watching this might be surprised to learn that you actually teach a course at the university of texas called script to screen which follows the process of making a film from its original screenplay to the movie that audiences ultimately experience in theaters what are some of the things that would surprise people about the science behind the magic of making a film so after doing this for 28 years man i really started to notice that boy that product that we put on the screen that you go to the theater and see or turn on your tube and see very different from that original script i read a year ago or two years ago because i always thought boy you see the written script it has to be exactly that we have to shoot exactly what's on the page and no i learned to start learning that from richard linklater my very first film daisy confused it's a collaboration there's one director but you take inspiration and ideas and good ones from wherever they come from whether it's the pa or whether it's the actor or whoever you take you look at the scene you're in you take inspiration you work with what you have it became much more of a fun process to direct and be a part of a movie like that what i said is look i want to take these film students chronologically through first script a second strip a third script four strip shooting script first edit and a final picture that you see how you can maybe run out of money and have to lose one of the big action scenes that was your favorite scene because you don't have the money for it uh and have to rewrite something else to see how oh someone like myself three lines in their first movie read the days confused script which that's the script word script screen doing in our class right now at texas you'll see that you'll see that i was in like three scenes at three lines and you're gonna be like whoa he ended up being working for three weeks he was all wooderson was all through that movie vice versa you may see someone who had a big part and then you go see the movie and you go what happened to their part it's a bit smaller now so you just see where all the changes are so it's sort of that's when i say putting the science behind the magic of movie making it's letting these different students know the different ways that films and movies and tv shows go from the script to finally get the screen [Music] sauce hellfire a little smoky in there yeah yeah [Music] so not since we had shia labeouf on the show have i had a more pressing urge to fact check the folklore surrounding a guest as i do right now is it true that the patron saint of hot ones himself guy fieri catered the after party of your wedding fact yeah man guy's great that guy reached out um we hooked up probably i don't know 10 years ago and remained in contact um he actually i introduced him when he got his walk in the hall of fame here recently just a few months ago he also jammed and cooked burgers at my 50th birthday yeah he's been a good bud man and uh yeah he loves to get on some spice okay that is this one okay number seven just got sneaky and starts to get heated outside the limes this is the first time my lips and things that this is one you don't want to all right neither one we just hit the moment where neither one of us want to go take a number one and touch our you-know-what because we will now know why it would be burning okay very smart very smart and wait till you try the next one fact or fiction you once collected every bad review that you could find about yourself and then read them obsessively as a way to like improve as an actor yeah i'm just learning to see if what i thought i was doing was how it was coming across i gathered up all my bad reviews and it was a it was a thick thick notebook and i found some of people to be very constructive i found some other ones to be like oh this person it didn't matter they already wrote this review they didn't like it they wrote this before they even came in the movie and then i found a lot of it to be very funny um but funny in a good way um and i got some good tips i learned more from my bad reviews than i did for my good ones is it true that you lost a lawsuit against a skin cream company because you won most attractive senior in your yearbook so true the story is in the book i'll give you the short version my mom starts peddling this stuff called oil of meat it's just door-to-door cells and it's it's just oh you put the sprinkle over your face and it'll bring out the impurities and whatever impurities you have it'll bring them out that'll be gone forever and you'll have beautiful glowing skin for the rest of your life i do it for three weeks straight i get full blown acne unrecognizably swollen head i go to the dermatologist he's like what do you put on your face i go here's this oily mickey goes no you're 15 years old and you it's clogging your pores this is for people 40 years and older well my dad got gosh damn we ought to have that dude young man should be young now unless you'd be taking this stuff we're going to sue that company because he goes to his is a lawyer we think jerry is like oh we can get 35 to 50 000 this is emotionally stressed matthew were you emotionally distressed during this time like oh yes sir was your confidence slower oh yes sir was it going as well with the girls no sir oh this is emotional stress we can get 50 grand well as you know lawsuits take a while so a year and a half go by i'm now in the deposition and the defense attorney is talking to me and he starts off he goes this must have been so emotionally distressed with you matthew and i'm sitting there going jeez he's giving me a softball i'm knocking this out apartment yes it was but i'm sitting there going chi-ching all of a sudden he pulls that from the table that's your book earmarked slides it over in front of me turns it around opens it up and it was a picture of me from that year my senior year i had one most handsome my dad was like gosh damn you buddy he goes we were going to make fifty thousand dollars you gotta go off and win most handsome come on man that's great so yeah we lost we like we like those suits we just we're not very good at picking the right litigations not them the bomb beyond insanity with the caution [Music] okay [Music] you start to notice that these get to be a little less about taste and they start to go right to your tonsils a little bit and i don't know if it matters what the hell we were putting them on i think yeah okay number eight just reminded me that yeah you don't wanna you don't wanna buy a filet mignon or a ribeye to put this on you might as well get that [Music] here we go so one of my favorite matthew mcconaughey quotes is to understand me you need to understand texan logic and i'm not sure how aware of this you are these homespun mcconaughey-isms they've inspired been shared and meme to a point that they're almost their own internet language so in order to better understand i'd like to just bounce a few off of you and get an interpretation from the man himself no matter who you're in bed with you're only sleeping with one person yourself fact all right think about it no matter who's next to you the only one person's leaving on your pillow one person you can't get rid of us better shake hands try and get along next on the best advice that you've ever received i've had thousands of crises in my life and most of them never happened yep don't do false drama real drama's coming let it slide a lot of times at any crisis if we just don't give it credit it's important to realize that fame is a dance and i'd like to think i've got my dance down better now like my favorite fans are usually the dave's fans that we're walking down the street i'm walking one way they're walking the other and that guy say man you got a joint and i'll hear it and i go be like cooler if you did and we both cackle and we never even looked at each other and just cackle through the streets and then other people in the street start laughing too that's my favorite thing [Music] hey did you write as big a bite as i did now that's very serious so are the next two be very careful be very careful so this next one is the chipotle express [Music] [ __ ] button [Music] ah very earthy yeah earthy earthy sound earthy be nice right now so recently it was announced that you'd be voicing hank the cow dog in a podcast adaptation of the classic children's book series hank the cow dog was apparently a big part of the childhood of a lot of people that work here on first we feast what can you tell the people about legendary cowboy storyteller john r erickson well i got turned on hank a cow dog by jeff nichols the director of mud so he brought them to me a couple years ago and turned me on to him so i listened to a lot of the series so what you got is hank the cow dog this cow dog whose head haunts you on the ranch and you know thinks he's god gifts of ranching and isn't always right tells out these tall stories and shares a few lessons along the way and you get to laugh at him being the uh sort of hero that he becomes in very funny ways as well we're getting them running to different school programs where the students and young kids are learning the lessons of hank the cal dog and the ranch hand stories in the classroom [Music] how about that i got that out ah this last one huh last tab dude huh oh yeah oh yeah yeah big i'm bad i'm okay matthew mcconaughey yeah here we are at the end of our extremely spicy feast and we've covered a lot of ground from your new book green lights to the movies that you've made and we've soaked up a lot of wisdom along the way but i want to close by talking about your spiritual side i know it's very important to you and to focus it this 2008 quote i want to be reincarnated as a jaguar they're the coolest animals in the world do you remember how you first experienced a profound connection with the jaguar and why do you want to live like one as one in another life anybody think i might have been hanging out with woody when i said that one um jaguars has always been you've always been my favorite animal i don't know why i hunted down jaguar in the in the in the jungles of peru and down into the down the odobama river on the amazon and the day tracks and night tracks never touched him until i got to gold the movie but did you track one oh check this out kept the uh jaguar gold i noticed on the call sheet it happened to be the last scene in the movie i'm a producer on the movie but i go this is a very smart scheduling but does anyone want to talk about why this is the last seen in the movie like well if something does happen we'll have it in the camera in the movie that's good scheduling here we go well you know what i'm happy that you survived that scene and i'm happy that you survived today's meal and look at you matthew mcconaughey working your way through the wings of death and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera or possibly a camera b if you've set one up let the people know what you have going on in your life what i got going on in my life gang is i'm trying to make it through this whole code thing like the rest of it's trying to keep it pulsed on with the smart things to do i hope you're wearing a mask out there because i'm ready to party again too like you are the best way we can do that is wear one when we get out in public what have i been doing right now i'm on a tour gonna sell my favorite piece of art i've ever put out called green life it's a book i wrote as you heard from sean i went away 52 days solitary confinement came out of the desert with something i'm really honored with it's funny it's got some wisdom bombs hopefully it's going to help everyone go want to have a good lap to maybe learn a little something get inspired but also what green lights are about man it's about turning them on and turning some yeses on in our own life and other lives hopefully we can all we can go away from the book and going in our life being more green lighters ourselves man and creates more opportunities for ourselves and others and that sir is a honey hole [Music] let's keep rocking catch more of these enjoyed it sean see you next time thanks for having me hey what's going on hot ones fans this is shawn evans checking in to say thank you so much for watching today's video and i have very exciting news the newest member 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Length: 27min 58sec (1678 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 22 2020

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