Matthew McConaughey stopped doing romantic comedies over a decade ago and he rebuilt his career into one that led him to an Oscar win.
In the process, Matthew turned down a $14.5 million paycheck. “No, I never regretted that,” Matthew said on E!’s Daily Pop. “That was during a two-year hiatus I was taking from the romantic comedies that I’d been doing and the action-adventures I had been doing.” He added, “I was very clear…look, intellectually, that was a hard one to say ‘no’ to.
Just looking at that sheer number—are you kidding me? Wow. But I knew I needed to remain on my sabbatical from the films I had been doing for my own soul.
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