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Noon, Super Bowl Sunday. It's every guy's worst nightmare-- instead of being in front of the boob tube sitting next to your buddies and drinking some beers, you are stuck at work. However, Matthew McConaughey isn't worried about the fact that it's only three hours 'til kickoff and he's still at the Four Seasons Hotel doing press for his upcoming romantic-comedy, "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
Frequently compared to Hollywood legend Paul Newman thanks to his good looks and powerful acting chops, Matthew McConaughey has spent the past decade proving to Hollywood that there's more to him than just being handsome and having a buff body. After playing bit roles in films like "Angels in the Outfield" and "Dazed and Confused," McConaughey proved he could handle the pressures of superstardom with his powerful performances in "A Time to Kill" and "Amistad." However, his looks are hard to ignore, and with millions of women drooling over the 33-year-old it wasn't long before Hollywood created their own box-office match made in heaven by casting McConaughey in the romantic-comedy. Coming off of the success "The Wedding Planner," Paramount quickly cast McConaughey for the male lead in this month's romantic-comedy, "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days." In the film McConaughey plays Benjamin Barry, a man who's so confident about himself that he makes a bet that he can make any woman fall in love with him in only 10 days. Little does he know, the woman who he's trying to get to fall head over heels in love with him has a hidden agenda herself-- she's Andie Anderson, "Composure" Magazine's "How To" girl who's latest article is titled, "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days." While the premise of the film may sound like any other romantic-comedy that deals with someone dating someone else because of a bet, McConaughey knew that "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" was different from other films like it in its genre and was eager to sign on to the film. "Granted the two characters end up getting together, there's no secret about that. This is a romantic-comedy, after all. But there were two things that made me want to do this movie," McConaughey recalls. "First, I thought it had an original premise. There's a girl who's writing an article on how to lose a guy in 10 days, then there's a guy who makes bet that he can make anyone fall in love with him in 10 days-- it was so simple I didn't understand why it hadn't been done before. Just that premise allowed the rest of the film to be funny because the audience knows I'm in on the game and she don't know I'm only dating her to win a bet, yet at the same time they know she's in on the game and I don't know she's just using me for an article. Each one of us has a secret and the audience gets to see us put up with the other's antics for our own hidden agenda. Secondly, unlike a lot of romantic comedies where the guy's usually the foil and the girl's the only one with any ambition, in this film the guy has his own bet, his own alternative motive. Ben isn't just the guy who's there for comic relief; he's doing this to get a job. He's there to back up the male's perspective, so I had a leg to stand up on as an actor. Plus he's just a great guy."
The copyright of the article Success, Sex Appeal and the Super Bowl-- An Interview with Matthew McConaughey in Red Carpet Reviews is owned by Heather Wadowski. Permission to republish Success, Sex Appeal and the Super Bowl-- An Interview with Matthew McConaughey in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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