Matthew McConaughey admitted he considered quitting Hollywood altogether — and finding another vocation like teaching — during a time in his career when he was only getting romantic comedy roles. Speaking to actor Glen Powell for Interview magazine, the 54-year-old actor said he left Hollywood for two years to figure out what he wanted to do when he only seemed able to get roles in movies like the “Wedding Planner” and “How to Lose a Guy in 10 days.” “I’ve usually zigged when I felt like Hollywood wanted me to zag,” McConaughey said. “When I had my rom-com years, there was only so much bandwidth I could give to those, and those were some solid hits for me. But I wanted to try some other stuff. Of course, I wasn’t getting it, so I had to leave Hollywood for two years.” “Dude it was scary. I had long talks with my wife about needing to find a new vocation,” he added.”‘I think I’m going to teach high school classes. I think I’m going to study to be a conductor. I think I’m going to go be a wildlife guide.’”  Hollywood’s latest leading man @glenpowell joins fellow Texas boy @McConaughey to discuss the secrets behind movie stardom for our summer issue ?https://t.co/nzvRjOHH33 pic.twitter.com/MybpAgSQ4f — Interview Magazine (@InterviewMag) June 18, 2024 “The Gentlemen” star said leaving was scary but looking back he can see that the departure was necessary to make Hollywood miss him. “I don’t know about you, but for me, going back to ‘A Time to Kill,‘ after I first had a big success in a major studio picture and became famous, I remembered that the Thursday before that movie opened, there’s 100 scripts out there that I would’ve done, and 99 of them I could not book,” McConaughey said.  “Over that one weekend, 99 noes became 99 yeses. I was like, ‘What? Three days ago, I’d have done any of these! And now you’re asking me which one I want to do?’ he added. “It was a hell of a shocking thing.” After his last rom-com in the 2009 “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,” he started getting more serious roles like “The Lincoln Lawyer” in 2011 and won his first Oscar in 2014 for his part in the “Dallas Buyers Club.”  Powell, the “Top Gun: Maverick” star recently talked about moving out of the “fishbowl” to be closer to his family because he’s gotten to “this point in Hollywood” that he can leave, saying it’s like he’s “earned the ability to go back” to his family and home in Texas, as previously reported. McConaughey, who lives in Texas with his wife Camila and their three kids, told Powell he could relate. “Once I felt like I was in Hollywood, I felt comfortable enough to go back home,” the actor said. “You can really be an honest observer of humans in Texas.” “It’s tough to do that in Hollywood, because everyone’s a voyeur,” he added. “Instead of going someplace to eat, a lot of Hollywood’s going to that place to see who’s coming to that place to eat.”

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) delivered a lesson in biology on Wednesday, explaining in scientific terms why biological males had an unfair advantage over females when it came to athletics. Kennedy ran through a list of physical differences that made males — particularly after puberty — predisposed to perform better when it came to sports. “Girls’ lungs are 12% smaller than boys’ lungs. Their hearts are 14% smaller. That gives boys a clear edge in endurance sports.” WATCH: Girls’ lungs are 12% smaller than boys’ lungs. Their hearts are 14% smaller. That gives boys a clear edge in endurance sports. pic.twitter.com/cGieBNHDpE — John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) June 19, 2024 “Swimming, for example. Cycling. Rowing,” Kennedy continued. “Girls develop a wider pelvis. That decreases the amount of force their legs exert when they’re lifting, when they’re kicking, when they’re pedaling. That’s another relative disadvantage vis-a-vis boys or men. When you compare female athletes to their male counterparts.” Kennedy went on to add that boys typically had broader shoulders and explained “that allows them to make more space for upper body muscle mass and gives them a decided advantage when competing against a girl.” “It’s hard to think — I can’t think of a sport in which a higher muscle-to-fat ratio isn’t helpful,” Kennedy concluded. “The average boy will grow five inches taller than the average girl, that’s just a fact. Even when men and women are the same height, men have higher levels of bone density, which helps them move more forcefully and escape more injuries.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Former collegiate swimmer and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines responded to Kennedy’s post, saying, “A sitting US Senator has to explain the physical differences between girls and boys to other sitting US Senators … what a time to be an American.” A sitting US Senator has to explain the physical differences between girls and boys to other sitting US Senators ….what a time to be an American https://t.co/Ub3aUa7xVm — Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 20, 2024 “Honestly it’s ‘1984’ that we have to say these things, what’s happened to people’s brains that they can ignore basic biology? There are 2 gametes. One large (female) one small (sperm) there is NO 3rd sex & humans can’t change sex! This is all fact. Even if u don’t like it,” Sharron Davies added. ?? honestly it’s ‘1984’that we have to say these things, what’s happened to peoples brains that they can ignore basic biology ? There are 2 gametes. One large (female) one small (sperm) there is NO 3rd sex & humans can’t change sex! This is all fact. Even if u don’t like it https://t.co/iotH4PvK8j — Sharron Davies MBE (@sharrond62) June 20, 2024

Actor Woody Harrelson recently explained why he doesn’t carry a cell phone. The 62-year-old star discussed his reasoning during an interview on SiriusXM’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast with Ted Danson, which aired Wednesday. Harrelson was talking about issues with cell phones in a conversation with actress Kristin Bell.  “And let me explain something about Woody,” Danson said. “He doesn’t have a phone. He’s one of those bullies in life that make other people carry his phone for him.” Harrelson replied that while the statement was “not exactly true,” he did have a complicated relationship with the technology after observing certain habits. “Well, I just don’t like to have, you know, to be readily available to any human being at any time,” Harrelson said.  Bell agreed, saying, “I hear that. It doesn’t feel good.” “That’s not the reason,” Harrelson corrected. “I like to be in touch with people in a way, but I don’t like the appendage on my appendage.” He added, “You know, I made a thing where I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna set a two-hour limit on my phone,’ because this is, I’ve given it up now three, three and a half years, but back then I was like, ‘Okay, I’m going to set this limit. Two hours.’ It’s like 9:30. You know, I’ve already hit my limit at 9:30, so I woke up, and I’ve been on it two hours already because, cuz you know how it can just keep going and going.” Danson asked Harrelson if those limits applied to certain things on the phone, like apps or texting.  “Texting and, well, I don’t know about apps, but texting and also, you know, whatever, so I just finally, I wanted to be able to be in a, like if I were out to dinner with you, right? And there’s just a lull in the conversation,” he said. “Oh, I’m on the phone. ‘Oh yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.’ You know, and I look and I’m back down to the device and this.” Bell mentioned how her two children helped her realize how excessive her phone usage was. “But I think once you recognize that, it reshapes, at least it did for me, my whole perspective, and I think my kids had a lot to do with that, too, where I realized they were talking to me and my kids are also very, like, emotionally articulate,” the “Frozen” actress said. “So, if I’d be checking something, even if it would be the most valid thing ever, like, ‘Oh, her Jujitsu class is changing times tomorrow. I need to tell the other moms.’ Whatever. A valid thing and one of my kids would look at me and go, ‘I just feel like you’re disconnected. I don’t have your whole attention, Mom,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh f***,’” she went on. Bell added, “When they get home from school, I do put it down. I put it upstairs,” she said. “It’s not in my ether when we’re bopping around the house at night and I feel, I really enjoy being less connected to it. It’s such a trick.” Danson concluded by saying he could understand Harrelson’s position. “Yeah. I admire what you do with phones by the way, Woody. I need to emulate that more.”

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