![]() Like the bestubbled dude you have seen whooping it up at WWE matches and sermonizing in luxury car commercials, McConaughey is alternately uninhibited and self-serious. “If it’s a straight memoir” - he stressed the second syllable with an unexpected French flair - “as a publisher you could sell some books.” What he hoped to produce, he said, was one where “the words on the page are still worthy to share if they were signed by anonymous, but at the same time be a book that only McConaughey could’ve wrote.” ![]() The book offers a shotgun seat to all the l-i-v-i-n that McConaughey has accumulated, from his upbringing in a tumultuous Texas family to his ascent as the ruggedly serene star of “Magic Mike,” “True Detective” and “Dallas Buyers Club.” Now that poem, rendered in its creator’s arcane handwriting, appears at the start of his autobiography, “Greenlights,” which Crown will publish on Tuesday. But he was certain he would live a life worth chronicling. This was in 1989, when he didn’t know all the twists and turns that awaited him - the acting awards he’d win, the wife and children he’d have, the bracing dramas and banal rom-coms he’d make. ![]() ![]() I wonder who would give a damn About the pleasures and the strife? Would it surprise you to learn that more than 30 years ago, before he’d even sauntered across the screen in “Dazed and Confused,” Matthew McConaughey wrote a poem in which he vowed he’d someday become an author? ![]()
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