Matthew McConaughey insists that “the only” role he ever truly wanted to play was that of dad. “It just seemed like it was the greatest thing a man can do,” he says. “I was shaking everyone’s hands, saying, ‘Nice to meet you, sir,’ and what hit me in that moment was that all of them were fathers,” he says. The churchgoing McConaugheys live on the quiet outskirts of Austin with his nonagenarian mother, having fled the paparazzi-plagued beaches of Malibu over a decade ago. When McConaughey travels for work, his family comes, too.

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