

It’s highly-regarded as his best performance to date and without him at the center of the flick – which included a huge physical transformation – it feels like cinema would have suffered a great loss. Here, McConaughey leans into his strengths as a cowboy-donning Texan, but pushes it to the absolute extreme of his acting potential.

McConaughey is absolutely heartbreaking as Ron Woodroof, an AIDS patient who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas to treat himself and other patients and meets Jared Leto’s HIV positive, trans woman, Rayon. The role was an early breakout for McConaughey, starring opposite Samuel L. Not every distinguished actor gets a gold trophy for his best performance, but in his case, they hit the nail on the head. McConaughey previously starred as Brigance in the film adaptation of A Time to Kill in 1996. 1 of Matthew McConaughey’s best movies is his Oscar-winning role in Dallas Buyers Club. The only future project on the actors plate is the Dreamworks Animation sequel Sing 2, which, once upon a time, was set for a late 2020 release, but was pushed into 2021 before the pandemic.
