Matthew McConaughey has recently offered thoughtful lessons that helped him navigate through life.
The Interstellar actor revealed he spent a year Down Under in 1988 as an exchange student with a family in Warnervale, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Reflecting on his experience, Matthew shared he “learnt a lot about myself and who I wanted to be”.
The Oscar winner pointed out that those were “priceless memories and lessons that he needed at the time in his life.
“I wouldn’t change anything because living there made me who I am today, all those years later,” said the 55-year-old in a new interview with Stellar magazine.
During his year in Australia, Matthew would grab any opportunity that came his way including jobs as a bank teller and legal assistant, to make his ends meet.
The Dallas Buyers Club actor seemed to have a different life in Australia, far from his life back home in Texas where he had been a straight-A student and was voted “most handsome” at school.
However, Matthew appeared to change his experience of living in Australia in 2021 memoir, GreenLights.
The Gentlemen actor called his time as “torturous”, saying, “No one wanted to party and chicks were not even digging me.”
However, Matthew appreciated that his host family was “kind-hearted” and “generous,” adding the vital life lesson he learned was that “we have to be thrown off balance to find our footing”.
