Matthew McConaughey Talks New Projects & More At The MTV Movie Awards In Santa Monica, CA

All right. Had to what the role had to stand up for it. Yeah. Can you give me some perspective? Was it worth it? How do you feel about it? Ah, very worth it. Yeah. I guess all the best things have happened. I know in my life and I did take a risk and it was one of those times I was sitt in the room with Joe Schumach the director book makes so much sense to me. I got to play that role. And so I uh talked to him and I asked him if somebody else was playing the role and that person that I asked about he said no. And he goes why'd you ask? I go because I think I should play it. And he laughed and I laughed and we said, 'Well, I doubt we can pull that off, but I agree with you. And about 2 weeks later, he called and said, "I set up a quiet test screening on a Mother's Day morning at 8:30." And uh we went across town um and did a test and did two scenes and got the role. And then from there, it was a wonderful experience all the way around. Can you tell us about making sandwiches? Mhm. Making Sandwiches is a um a film, short film that I did with uh Sandra Bulock. She wrote it and directed it. Did you hear that first part? Yeah. I um work with Sandra Bulock. She wrote it and I directed it and produced it and I produced it with her. It's a uh story she ever wrote in one night. It's about uh the differences in all of us, men and women and um a couple and how we get along and how we don't and how what we can find to uh to agree on. Um I don't know. I haven't talked to her about where it's going to be broadcast at right now, but we uh we showed it in Los Angeles a couple of times. One second. Still too quiet. Can you hear in the back? Is that better? All right, I'll just speak up. Okay. A film called Contact, July 11th. Talk a little bit about that. Yeah, it's a um great story about God and science. Um it's it's a uh it's a story about what's out there and what we're doing right here on Earth. Uh it's an open third act. It's one of those great stories that hopefully when you leave it, you're just going to it's going to be everybody's personal question to themselves about, hey, what do I think is going on? What's going to happen when I leave this place? What is it like to win the MTV award? Oh, it feels great, man. Who has it? Do you know that? Yeah, it feel No, it feels great. There's a lot of good feelings about this one. MTV music. Love music, man. I don't know what I'd do without music. Second is that this is the youth of the world. And this was a story. Time to Kill was one of those classical stories that's been told a thousand times. It's set in an environment that we've seen. It's a a classical role that I got to go interpret. And it just goes to show that 2,000 years ago, the same things make sense that make sense today and will make the same sense 2,000 years from now. It's about right and wrong, what's right and what's wrong. And that my to me the film is about you got somebody who um did wrong. And that begat another wrong. And the lesson being don't do wrong or rather do right till you don't get done wrong. Pretty simple. Last couple months of your life been a real whirlwind. How do you come to terms with the last year on it? A day at a time with the big picture in mind. Last question. What some of the rock and roll you listen to at the moment? Uh listen to a lot of Melanchamp. Um actually today I was jamming to Steve Miller. Um did some Paul Simon. Um, I listened to a little Alana Moriceet, Shell Crow, um, Chris Ria. Been enjoying him a lot. A little bit of Robert Earl, a little Chris Kristofferson, little Willie Nelson. Um, big picture, what's the big picture? The big picture, you know, I don't know what it is yet. It's my hope in the big picture. I don't think any of us do uh right now, but hopefully when we get there, we'll find out. It's just the hope in it. All right. You're welcome. Thank y'all. Just keep living then. [Applause] [Applause]