Between building safer school environments and returning to live-action film, Matthew McConaughey opens up about the incredible work he’s been doing, both on and off camera and whether he gets the same satisfaction helping others that he gets from acting. “You know, I love making movies.
I just went and acted for the first time in quite a few years. And this film called ‘The Rivals of Amziah King’, boy I rekindled.
I absolutely love it,” he told ET Canada’s Cheryl Hickey of the upcoming project. “Being singularly obsessed with one character and just my whole world revolving around that character, it was like being on vacation.” READ MORE: Matthew McConaughey Reflects On The Pros And Cons Of Social Media As His Son Levi Joins Instagram The crime-thriller in question is directed by Andrew Patterson (“The Vast of Night”), though the plot remains under wraps.
Aside from acting, McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves launched the Greenlights Grant Initiative in July, as part of their 2009-founded organization, The Just Keep Livin Foundation, to “help school districts nationwide access billions of dollars of available federal funding to create safer school environments and ensure the well-being of our children,” as per the website.
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