Matthew McConaughey has admitted that romantic comedies saved him from a “cold part” in his career.
The 42-year-old actor explained that 2001 movie The Wedding Planner led to him being offered many more roles in the genre.
He said: ''Truth is, I was in a colder part of my career at the time. I was coming off, what was it, 'U-571'? I had to try different things. I did action movies, crime; and then I did The Wedding Planner".
"I thought, let's go see what it's like to just be light; never done that before. And then, s**t ... it made a whole bunch of money, and they came back, and offered me more.''
He added: ''The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. What woman wants that guy?''
However, the Killer Joe actor says that he still takes humour ''really seriously''.
He further pitched in: ''I take the comedy real seriously. There's a whole plan behind it. Even though those characters look like I'm just skating through, there's a design behind it.
''They look easy-breezy' but if you go digging too deep into the character, you sink the ship.''
McConaughey is currently appearing in Magic Mike, set to hit Irish cinemas on July 11th.
