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Two of the hottest hunks on the planet - Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox - proudly walked the red carpet on Thursday night in Hollywood in support of their emotional new fact-based film “We Are Marshall.” And the Matthews were not alone; they were joined there by Jack Lengyl and Red Dawson, the two men they play in the real-life story of the rebuilding of the Marshall University football team after most of the team was lost in a tragic plane crash back in 1970. It’s a story that both Matthews say grabbed them the moment they read it, and both jumped at the chance to play the coaches that brought back the team and the West Virginia town that was so shattered by the loss. “It was one of the scripts, the first script since ‘Dazed and Confused’ that I read one time and said, ‘I am in, no matter what,’” McConaughey said earlier during the press day for the uplifting drama. “I read it in my trailer in Austin, Texas, and I shut it and got on the phone. I knew I was in and was glad that they wanted me. I laughed and I cried at the end of reading it; and a motto of mine is ‘just keep living,’ that is a compass that helps me navigate through life. This is for me a ‘just keep living’ story.” And McConaughey wants to make sure that audiences know that this is one Hollywood version of a real event that didn’t need any embellishment, for the reality is more compelling than anything a screenwriter could make up. “The events, the people, all of these things happened,” he said. “It’s a real story, a true story, no smoke and mirrors are needed here. There is a resonance that comes with that, when you know something is a true story. We didn’t have to try to hard to do anything other than the truth. They say truth is better than, stranger than fiction, right?” For Matthew Fox, it was meeting Red Dawson, the man he plays, that cemented his strong feeling about the project. “I felt a real and fairly intense responsibility to tell his story the very best that I could. We joked around about it when we first met each other and we started talking and he said ‘Well, you are going to have to learn to cry.’ Because he is very honest, he is a very strong silent kind of quiet kind of man. Very sort of iconic and classic in that respect,” Fox remembered. “He is amazing, he is just an awesome guy.” Both Matthews are so pleased with the film that they made sure that their closest friends joined them at the premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Fox brought his “Lost” co-stars Josh Holloway and Harold Perrineau, as well as his wife, while buddy Lance Armstrong joined McConaughey. Also on hand to check out the film, which opens December 22, were director McG, co-stars January Jones, Kimberley Williams-Paisley, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, and Robert Patrick, as well as Drew Barrymore, James Denton, and Jason Ritter. Courtesy of FashionWireDaily |
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