Matthew McConaughey appears in Dazed and Confused for a grand total of ten minutes, tops. He’s in Magic Mike for nearly twice that, although you’d be forgiven for remembering just those first sixty laaaaawbreakin’ seconds. McConaughey’s scene in The Wolf of Wall Street—arguably the most memorable, most endlessly memed moment of the entire film—amounts to about six minutes of total screen time. I don’t mean to disparage the Texas actor’s work in movies like Dallas Buyers Club and The Lincoln Lawyer, or anything else in which he plays the lead. But the fact is that many of what we think of as McConaughey’s most iconic roles are also his shortest, in which he is forced to make the most out of every stolen moment, stretch…
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