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nprfreshair: Matthew McConaughey tells Terry Gross about landing the part of Dave Wooderson in Dazed and Confused: I met the casting director Don Phillips on that film in a bar one night. Top of the Hyatt, Thursday night, with my girlfriend at the time. … [W]e went to that bar because I knew the bartender and he’d give me free drinks and … — he was in film school with me — he goes, ‘The guy at the end of the bar is a producer,’ … [and so] I went down to introduce myself. Four hours later, we’re kicked out of the bar and he says, ‘You ever acted before?’ I said, ‘Man, I was in a Miller Light commercial for about ummm that long,’  and he goes, ‘Well, you might be right for this role. Come to this address tomorrow morning, 9 o’clock.’ … And I went down there six hours later and there was a script with a handwritten note on top of it and it had this character’s name was Wooderson. He had a few great, great lines. … The one that sent me off and I was just like, ‘Who is this guy?’ is when they’re out front of the billiards joint and the ladies are walking by. Wooderson’s checking them out … and Wooderson’s like, ‘That’s what I like about those high school girls, man, I get older, but they stay the same age.’ That was the piece for Wooderson that I was like, ‘That’s not a line that’s his being. That’s his philosophy. He has it figured out. He’s not commentating.’” Image via holdernessg

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Matthew McConaughey tells Terry Gross about landing the part of Dave Wooderson in Dazed and Confused:

I met the casting director Don Phillips on that film in a bar one night. Top of the Hyatt, Thursday night, with my girlfriend at the time. … [W]e went to that bar because I knew the bartender and he’d give me free drinks and … — he was in film school with me — he goes, ‘The guy at the end of the bar is a producer,’ … [and so] I went down to introduce myself. Four hours later, we’re kicked out of the bar and he says, ‘You ever acted before?’ I said, ‘Man, I was in a Miller Light commercial for about ummm that long,’  and he goes, ‘Well, you might be right for this role. Come to this address tomorrow morning, 9 o’clock.’ … And I went down there six hours later and there was a script with a handwritten note on top of it and it had this character’s name was Wooderson. He had a few great, great lines. … The one that sent me off and I was just like, ‘Who is this guy?’ is when they’re out front of the billiards joint and the ladies are walking by. Wooderson’s checking them out … and Wooderson’s like, ‘That’s what I like about those high school girls, man, I get older, but they stay the same age.’ That was the piece for Wooderson that I was like, ‘That’s not a line that’s his being. That’s his philosophy. He has it figured out. He’s not commentating.’”

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Posted on Thursday, April 25th 2013

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