Matthew McConaughey Was Interested In Getting Into Wrestling

Matthew McConaughey is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. The actor has won countless awards including an Oscar for his leading role in Dallas Buyers Club. Now, he has revealed that he has had an interest in getting into wrestling.

During a recent interview with regular celebrity guest Maria Menounous, the topic of wrestling came up. This is where McConaughey mentioned that he was interested in being involved in the business. He couldn’t get into specifics for undisclosed reasons. Here is the quote, courtesy of Fightful via AfterBuzz:

“I’ll say… not too much, because as you know, you can’t say too much about these things, but it is, uh, it is something that interests me….”

Matthew McConaughey also discussed a conversation he had with The Rock about wrestling where he talked about what he loves about wrestling.

“The Rock was telling me his story, about his storyline from good guy to bad guy, and how he felt it click in one night while he was there live, ‘oh I just hooked him.’ And I love the suspension and disbelief that because my kids and I watch and they’re starting to get that when they go, ‘oh this is fake’ I’m going, ‘what are you talking about no way’ and they’re starting to get because I won’t give them the wink yet, but they’re starting to get that in there there’s a bit of one you know, and then, so two of them, two of them are like, ‘this isn’t fake, well this is real,’ so they’re gettin’ it, and that’s so much of the fun of it, it’s coming up this, this is real.”

You can find the whole interview in the video below.