![]() They didn’t pay the rent, but they bought me a few drinks.” The grin seems to linger forever. And it paid 150 bucks,” he says with a grin. They rise now in front of the screen on a Zoom interview, when McConaughey is asked about the first time we ever saw him. The fingers swell around two rings-one silver and copper to protect the owner from evil thoughts, the other a wedding band. It was the face by which he would be judged. In our universe, it was the face that paid the bills. Perhaps there exists a universe in which that hand is all we ever saw of McConaughey, a universe in which that was all we remembered or judged him by. They had not yet gripped trophies or pounded bongos or worn handcuffs. ![]() They’d built tree houses and spun truck wheels and driven golf balls far down Texas fairways. Matthew McConaughey’s right hand resting open across his tuxedo buttons in a commercial for Al’s Formal Wear, in 1991.īack then, they were working hands. ![]()
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