People Are Being Very Mean About Your Boyfriend Matthew McConaughey’s New Look

Academy Award-winning actor and sexy Foghorn Leghorn Matthew McConaughey has this week been spotted on the set of his new film Gold in New York, and the resulting pictures have caught everyone a little off guard. Still apparently longing for the pre-McConaissance visions of him as a human washboard to be firmly stationed alongside Kate Hudson and/or J.Lo, some are finding it difficult to deal with the sight of him with a bald cap and pot belly.

Responding to a real ’90s scandal in which a Canadian mining company falsely reported a huge gold deposit, his latest character in Gold is a skeezy, middle-aged prospector who somewhat tragically ventures to the Indonesian jungle in search of an easy fortune. For comparison, this is all somewhat different to his 2008 film Fool’s Gold, in which he plays a “professional treasure hunter” who frollicks around idyllic beaches trying to score some mysterious Spanish galleon and save his marriage (to Kate Hudson).

Though McConaughey’s been known to transform himself for roles — he famously lost around 20 kgs to play AIDS paitent Ron Woodruff in Dallas Buyers’ Club — the media don’t seem to be praising his new look in quite the same way. Calling it “the exact opposite of alright, alright, alright”, USA Today even suggest it’s a completely different situation.

“Stop what you’re doing right now, Matthew McConaughey, and rethink your life choices,” they wrote. “We were okay with you losing all that weight in Dallas Buyers Club because, you know, you got that Oscar out of it, and because it made your cheekbones look ultra sultry in True Detective. But this combination of the fat suit, the balding hair piece and just general awfulness is too much for us.”

People went the same way, calling him “paunchy and balding” before using a similar joke: “Alright, alright, alright — he’ll have extra fries”. The Independent called him out as “fat, bald and bedraggled”. Now labelled him “podgy, balding and badly dressed” before breathlessly asking “what has happened to Hollywood hunk Matthew McConaughey!?” Stuff.co.nz politely reassured readers, “the actor has not aged overnight like a banana, it’s just a new look for his latest role”, and Page Six delivered characteristic tact and restraint with the headline: “Matthew McConaughey transforms himself into a fat slob”.

“Sporting a balding head and widening waistline, McConaughey, 45, channeled his inner whale of Wall Street as he stepped out wagging his tongue in a drab suit — with a cigarette to boot,” they wrote.

Poor Matthew McConugggaheyy. You be whoever you wanna be.

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Images via Splash News.