Matthew McConaughey, who’s previously teased running for Texas governor, doesn’t seem to be making plans to do so anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean he’s ruled it out entirely.
At a sold-out Q&A event on Sunday for the Texas Book Festival, someone asked the Uvalde-born actor whether he’d run for the state’s highest office, MySA reports. McConaughey was at the event in Austin’s First Baptist Church to discuss his best-selling memoir Greenlights.
“I’ll tell you what, right now, I’m having a wonderful adventure doing what I fully believe is the most important job I could be doing … raising 3 kids,” McConaughey responded, according to the online news site.
“When we give a little more reverence to that awesome job, that’s the way we start really changing the future and making better humans, and it starts with us in the casa,” McConaughey continued. “So, I’m present with them right now, I’m enjoying some wilder teenagers now … I want to make sure I have time for that, so that governor part, we’ll see, but thank you for thinking of me in that way.”
The forum’s moderator — Austin-based filmmaker Richard Linklater, who directed McConaughey in Dazed and Confused — asked the Oscar-winning actor when the youngest of his children would be off to college.
“Six years,” McConaughey responded.
“Come back in six years,” Linklater said to cheers from the audience, MySA reports.
McConaughey has hinted before at his interest in serving as governor of the Lone Star State. In 2021, he told a podcast that he was “measuring” a run for office, adding that “it’s going to be in some capacity,” The Hill reported.
But McConaughey also said he’s aware he isn’t exactly a conventional politician, reportedly adding on the Set it Straight: Myths and Legends podcast, “I’m more of a folksy and philosopher poet statesman than I am a, per se, definitive politician.”
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This article appears in Nov 13-26, 2024.
