Matthew McConaughey by Neil Daniels

Author:Neil Daniels [Neil Daniels]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784182380
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2014-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

The phone rang. Time for another rom-com. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was released in the UK and US in May 2009. McConaughey was still stuck in the role of rom-com actor after The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Failure to Launch and Fool’s Gold and now he was cast in the risible Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. ‘I was good to them and they were good to me,’ McConaughey told the Scotsman on his experience of making romantic comedies. ‘Shoot, yeah. Some of those romantic comedies, they put food on my kids’ table. Trust me. Absolutely. And they’re quite fun to do. You’ve got to be in a whole different mind-frame for them.’

Loosely based on Charles Dickens’ seminal supernatural tale, A Christmas Carol, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is passable if only for it’s interesting premise. While the Dickens novel features Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the film is set the day before and during a wedding day. McConaughey plays a successful and famous photographer and womaniser named Connor Mead who is haunted by his ex-girlfriends at his younger brother’s wedding. Directed by Mark Waters, the film also stars Jennifer Garner, Lacey Chabert and Michael Douglas. Filming took place between February and July of 2008 in Massachusetts.

McConaughey was asked by a fan in People magazine what he’d do if he was visited by his former girlfriends. He replied: ‘I think I’d learn that the reason that they dug me when we were dating was how excited I would get about details of little situations, like making pancakes in the morning. And I think the other thing would probably be my sense of humour. I’m actually happy to say I’ve been in some of my ex-girlfriends’ weddings. I go, “Well, right on, man. That’s good.”’

McConaughey loved the script, especially the first twenty or thirty pages where he thought there was a lot of bite to the story. It was the clever dialogue that grabbed him and the strong male character was someone he saw himself portraying onscreen. ‘It was just the best romantic comedy I’ve read in years,’ McConaughey enthused to People’s Brenda Rodriguez. ‘It had a big heart about having a second chance. And the ghosts in it levitated the comedy and allowed me to just be a fool.’

Michael Douglas’s character Uncle Wayne was laugh-a-minute too; McConaughey thought the rich comedy dialogue was on par with The Wedding Crashers. Usually in romantic comedies the dialogue doesn’t cut deep with the audience, but McConaughey felt differently about this film. The ghosts gave the script added humour. It’s a fairy tale but with humour and warmth and it offered something different to the previous rom-coms McConaughey had been cast in.

Garner enjoyed working with her male co-star. She thought McConaughey was a sweet, gentle and funny guy who was very easy to get along with. Garner admired him as an actor and was more than elated to be working with him. Garner liked the film because it was a different

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