Matthew McConaughey stands by the rom-com roles he did earlier in his career

In a recent interview with GQ Magazine, Matthew McConaughey decided to stand up and defend his the rom-com films that he did earlier on in his career.

When asked if he was proud of the work he did in romantic comedies, McConaughey replied, "Absolutely. These things aren’t easy. What’s hard is to make them look easy. Those kinds of movies are what they are. They get pooh-poohed by critics. They get pooh-poohed by actors themselves.

"And in a way I get it, but in other ways it’s completely unfair. There’s a buoyancy you need to make them work. I believe I gave them buoyancy. And some of the shoots were very difficult, with me trying to fight for the balls on the guy."

In the same interview he also revealed that he always carries a leather journal filled with “stray thoughts, doodles, visual diagrams of future roles, and whatever else pops into his head.”

At one point, McConaughey dropped to the Oriental rug on the floor of the hotel room where the interview was taking place and began absentmindedly doing push-ups, ‘just to wake up.'