10 Things We Learned From Matthew McConaughey On The Joe Rogan Experience

7. What Was His Route Into The Acting Business?

After taking in the Academy Award winning actor for a decent amount of time, Rogan finally acknowledged that the person Skyping him from afar possessed something he called "whiskey philosopher wisdom".

When asked where he gets that profound ability from, McConaughey confessed that he comes from a family of storytellers. He also brilliantly revealed that if you weren't a good storyteller in his family, you would be overthrown and forced to let somebody else tell it for you.

Rogan then asked if this mastery of storytelling opened the door for him to become an actor later in life? To which McConaughey replied by taking his interviewer through his journey into the business.

Long before he was winning Oscars, McConaughey attended film school (as this was the only route into the business his father could digest). This would see the soon-to-be actor directing other thespians by himself performing in front of the camera and later help him land a job on a little film known as Dazed and Confused in the summer of 1992.

Three lines then turned into three weeks work and McConaughey quickly decided this was the path for him once he'd finished college.

The actor also acknowledged that things came easy to him - he secured his first two jobs from his first two auditions - and he was forced to "self-correct" a few years later after the success of A Time to Kill. This involved him going to a monastery for a week before venturing to Peru for 22 days, forcing him to be with himself and his thoughts.

He eventually came out the other side "light as a feather" and shook hands with himself before re-entering the business with a spring in his step.

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