Matthew McConaughey will soon be seen in Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar," and the actor said the film is Nolan's most "ambitious" and "most personal" movie yet.
"He's already made some films that have an epic scope and scale, and I would say almost without argument, that he puts more of that scope on film than any other director. So in that way it's more ambitious," Matthew told Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson at the "Interstellar" junket in Los Angeles. "We go further to the outer limits of space than anyone has, further than I could even imagine before being a part of this story.
"At the same time I think it's most personal and most intimate story and very simple small stories, actually the further we go out there, one of the morals is for me is the further we go out there the more it ends up returning and saying it's really about you and me," he added.
As an astronaut in the film, the Oscar winner had to conquer technical science terminology.
"The challenge was the early work before, in pre-production, to understand the meaning behind the lingo, so you know what the hell you're saying, or what you're talking about," he said. "Physically, it was more of an endurance. It was a long shoot – five months – we went many places. There was a lot of natural elements that were just there and that were very tough. Great thing about working on a Christopher Nolan film is you're not acting to a green screen, you're not acting to fake dust… he's building it. So you get to work around in it."
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The actor also commented on a recent GQ article where he said it took a little convincing from now-wife Camila Alves to walk down the aisle.
"I was always convinced [she was the one] – it was about the timing question, for me, and like I said in the article, really wanting to wake up and feeling like boy, I so look forward to this, I have to and here's why. And I got the nudge from Camilla," he said. "It was a push that turned into a dance, but it had enough aggression behind it to be, to be heard!"
"Interstellar" hits theaters on November 5.
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