The North American actor Matthew McConaughey turned down the lead role of Joel Miller in the HBO series "The last of us, the character that Pedro Pascal eventually played. During an interview on the podcast Happy sad confused, McConaughey explained that during that period he was away from acting and focused mainly on writing and taking on leadership roles off-screen. The performer says he preferred not to tie himself to a continuous television project, because beyond "}the first season of True detective, I wasn't very active. The actor has acknowledged that he seriously considered accepting the offer, but that, in the end, he decided against it due to the involvement the series required.

Paul Greengrass is a director you can count on to bring intensity to a hitman adventure (The Bourne Myth), a fiction of occupied Iraq (Green zone) or whatever it takes. The Irishman had already injected narrative and visual steroids into thrillers based on real events such as United 93 and relapses with Labyrinth on Fire, which is about a school bus caught in a terrible fire. This isn't a tale of paradise lost, because it all begins with scenes in which the driver, played by Matthew McConaughey, appears dejected, almost defeated by life.

Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Brazilian model Camila Alves, form one of the most stable marriages in Hollywood. Together for almost two decades, the couple married in 2012 in a Catholic ceremony in Texas, where the actor is a member, and they have three children. Beyond his acting career, the actor has also tried his hand at writing and is currently promoting his film. Poems & Payers, a book in which, among other things, he explains the secret to having a lasting marriage in a text entitled "The best thing you can do for your marriage."