NEPTUNE OR BUST!
January 19, 2014
"There's magic place that we as actors strive to get to and we don't always get there, but boy when we touch it. It's magic. When you're seeing the character from the inside-out, when you're walking out every day and everything you see, smell and touch and observe is coming through that character and into you and it's making sense and you're the subject. You're the eye. You're first-person seeing it through that character's eyes. That doesn't always happen. But boy when it does, and it feels like they could put a blindfold on you and put you on a spaceship and take you to Neptune and you could hop off on the planet and they better have the sprock control and you get off that spaceship because you are going to behave as your man. That is a glorious feeling!"~Matthew McConaughey, The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
That was an excerpt from McConaughey's acceptance speech after he won the award for Best Male Lead Actor for his work in Dallas Buyers Club. The speech is getting a lot of press because it was a little out there. Much like the man who spoke the words.
"There's magic place that we as actors strive to get to and we don't always get there, but boy when we touch it. It's magic. When you're seeing the character from the inside-out, when you're walking out every day and everything you see, smell and touch and observe is coming through that character and into you and it's making sense and you're the subject. You're the eye. You're first-person seeing it through that character's eyes. That doesn't always happen. But boy when it does, and it feels like they could put a blindfold on you and put you on a spaceship and take you to Neptune and you could hop off on the planet and they better have the sprock control and you get off that spaceship because you are going to behave as your man. That is a glorious feeling!"~Matthew McConaughey, The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
I can't judge McConaughey.
Can any of us really?
Was it a weird speech? Sure. Was it pure McConaughey? Of course it was.
He obviously has passion for acting and for the role which landed him at the podium last night.
McConaughey continued :
"There's a man I met 20 years ago. He escaped Russia. He was not even a carpenter, built a 17-foot boat and sailed across the Atlantic for decades he held the world record for smallest vessel single-man sailed across the Atlantic. He told me this, he said, 'A genius can be anybody he wants to, but a genius is always one person at a time.' So to that I say, that's what we get to do, isn't it? One man, one woman, one human. At a time. When we do it well. Just keep doing that. Just keep living."
I can only hope to one day have the opportunity to make a speech accepting a S.A.G. award and it will probably be goofy and emotional and leave some shaking their heads. Which is okay, because that is how I roll.
Congrats Matthew! Rock on man. Alright...alright...alright.
And congrats to all the winners last night.
What a thrill to be honored by your fellow actors! One day. One day soon.
I see myself there.
I just hope I'm not just keeping Tom Hanks' seat warm while he goes to the restroom.
Oh! Who am I kidding? Take your time, Tom.
Just keeping it reel folks.
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