Next stop on the McConaissance train: bona fide professor. And Iâm not talking about playing one on TV. According to The University of Texas at Austinâs Facebook page, Matthew McConaughey will be teaching a filmmaking class at his alma mater this fall with Hunger Games director Gary Ross.
In the class, 30 students at the collegeâs Moody School will be taken behind the scenes of the duoâs latest film, Free State of Jones (Ross directs and McConaughey stars as a disillusioned Confederate army deserter that rallies a liberal southern militia).
Now before you get as gushy-eyed as Jodie Foster in Contact at the prospect of McConaughey all gussied up in professor wear, drawling coyly from the front of a classroom, itâs not quite all that it seems. According to Entertainment Weekly, the class will be taught with prerecorded videos of the Ross/McConaughey duo. (Personally, given that tidbit, I think Iâd designate that class block to just watch Interstellar over and over again). BUT, McConaughey will make âat leastâ one in-person appearance. I guess Iâd go to class that day.
According to the San-Antonio Express News, McConaughey also âtaughtâ a similar class last spring, but students had to sign a non-disclosure agreement since the film hadnât yet been released.
Free State of Jones is now in theaters everywhere. Check it out and see if you can’t find one of those lecture videos floating around. Rumor has it that McConaughey just says âalright, alright, alrightâ in various inflections and tones until students understand whatever he’s trying to say. At the time of publication, these rumors cannot be confirmed, since we basically made them up ourselves.
Are you one of the lucky few headed to this UT class? If you are, tell us what you’re expecting in comments below. If you’re not, tell us what you’d like to have McConaughey teach you in an ideal setting.
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