“There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.”

American actor

Matthew McConaughey is an American actor. He rose to wider attention in the 1993 coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused, and later found his first real success as a leading man in the legal drama A Time to Kill in 1996. After that breakthrough, he took starring roles in Contact, Amistad, and U-571, all released between 1997 and 2000. His screen work is associated with a mix of legal drama, science fiction, historical drama, and war films.