Matthew McConaughey talks Texas politics and more in Twitter Spaces conversation : NPR
Matthew McConaughey, the star of Dazed and Confused and Dallas Buyers Club, doesn’t think about throwing his cowboy hat in the race for Texas “CEO”. Noam Galai / Getty Images for HISTORY Hide caption
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Matthew McConaughey, the star of Dazed and Confused and Dallas Buyers Club, doesn’t think about throwing his cowboy hat in the race for Texas “CEO”.
Noam Galai / Getty Images for HISTORY
Matthew McConaughey is not running for governor of Texas.
“It’s not me – until I am,” said Oscar-winning and bestselling author NPR host Scott Simon in an open live forum broadcast on Twitter Spaces on Thursday. “It has to be personal to me, but it also has to be the most useful thing for most people.”
McConaughey continued to toy with the idea of what it would mean to be “CEO of the State” at a time when he viewed American politics as a “broken business” shared by politicians whose main goals were theirs get your own parties.
Even so, the actor didn’t offer many certainties when he asked hot questions from the audience about his own opinion – except when conveying his signature “bumper” philosophies about life, which underline his new memoirs (or what he likes to call a ” Approach book “), Greenlights.
Urged by the controversial new abortion law in his home state, which bans the procedure from the sixth week of pregnancy, he said: “I’m more of a chosen type.”
Christian Smalls, a former Amazon employee turned union organizer, asked the actor for his opinion on the efforts of Amazon workers to unionise.
In both cases, McConaughey said he had some homework to do. He said he was “more preoccupied with the bigger questions of what the hell happened to this policy”.
As for its political orientation? He won’t say exactly, but rather channels the independent spirit of a Texan who wants to “balance the ship of democracy”.
“I think we’re here to lead, not secede,” he said of Texans.
Click the audio link to hear the full conversation.
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