Matthew McConaughey says a return to acting sounds like 'vacation' after 'Yellowstone' spinoff confirmed

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Matthew McConaughey actively stepped away from the camera in the last few years, something he says will allow him to return to the big and small screens as a better actor. "The last few years I had a really wonderful time getting rid of a lot of those filters that come with acting," he told Dax Shepard on his "Armchair Expert" podcast. "I am now becoming more interested in actually going to play another character in a movie or TV show because all of the last four years of culminating and writing and getting these things together, and getting more into some public service, now that I'm starting to dispatch those and get them organized and put ‘em in front of me, it freed me up to go, 'The idea of going to act in the right role and the right kind of movie, film, or series, right now, sounds like an awesome vacation.'" His comments come just weeks after Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Paramount Media Networks, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that a "Yellowstone" spinoff featuring McConaughey was moving forward, amid ongoing drama with the original series' filming schedule for season 5.

For months, it has been reported that star Kevin Costner is less than willing to film the latter half of the fifth season, a claim his attorney has adamantly denied.

McCarthy acknowledged that McConaughey's spinoff would move forward regardless of Costner's involvement with the franchise. "The idea that Kevin was only willing to work one week on the second half of Season 5 of 'Yellowstone' is an absolute lie," Costner's attorney, Marty Singer, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "It’s ridiculous — and anyone suggesting it shouldn’t be believed for one second.