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    Matthew McConaughey Exiled Himself From Hollywood and Lived in Peru as Mateo for 22 Days Without Electricity When Fame Became Too Much


    Matthew McConaughey Exiled Himself From Hollywood and Lived in Peru as Mateo for 22 Days Without Electricity When Fame Became Too Much

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    1. mcfw31 on

      > “I needed to get my feet on the ground,” McConaughey said. “So I click out. Boom. Go to Peru. I needed to find it, to check the validation. I knew I had it, I just had to go prove it again. But I did question, now that I just got famous, I’ve got all this affiliation for this and that and the other. And I’m trying to decipher which part’s real, which part’s bullshit.”

      > The first 12 days of McConaughey’s pilgrimage were “wonky” but the back half proved enlightening for him, he explained: I was now at the place long enough to go, ‘I could live this. This could be my existence. As soon as you go, ‘I could do this.’ Then you’re like, ‘Well, I can return home.’”

      > “I needed to meet people who knew me as Mateo,” McConaughey added. “And at the end of 22 days, the tears in their eyes and the tears in my eyes and the hugs we had on the sadness and happiness of saying goodbye were all based off of the man they met named Mateo, who had nothing to do with the celebrity. It reaffirmed my own identity that, ‘Oh, I still got it. This is based on me.’”

    2. Mental_Relation_2175 on

      Except for his phone and satalite Internet connection. Now, cone on. Bullshit.

    5. Top_Shame_7016 on

      Being wealthy allows you to take 3 week long vacations in other countries.

    7. SirRichardLove on

      That’s a vacation to you, guy. People live like that there entire lives.

    9. screenname790 on

      No he didn’t.

      He got his PR rep to set up a cool story so he could make more money.

    11. WakeNikis on

      > The first 12 days of McConaughey’s pilgrimage were “wonky” but the back half proved enlightening for him, he explained: I was now at the place long enough to go, ‘I could live this. This could be my existence. As soon as you go, ‘I could do this.’ Then you’re like, ‘Well, I can return home.’”

      100% chance he enjoys the smell of his own farts.

    13. SimplePln on

      I was in the Peace Corps in Peru for two years. 22 days is a rounding error.

    16. thatbiguy3000 on

      In today’s edition of Hollywood Star Needs to Feel Important, we present this pretentious bullshit.

    20. phillygirllovesbagel on

      How nice. If only I had the wealth to escape reality for a brief period of time.

    25. briankerin on

      “22 days.” That’s not exile, thats just a vacation where your roughing it.

    27. Suspicious-Truth5849 on

      I just imagine the people of Peru being really confused why Drill Bit Taylor doing there saying “Gracias Amigo” in his southern accent