| | | The Beach Bum, director Harmony Korine's follow-up to Spring Breakers, opened wide this past weekend. The film stars Matthew McConaughey as a Florida Man of the actor's own myth-making. Moondog i | | If you have trouble reading this email, go to the online version |  | |  | | | | | |  | | | | April 02, 2019 | | A Follicular Analysis of Matthew McConaughey's Career
What the Actor's Ever-Changing Hair Says About the Various Stages of His Career | |  | | | | | | | The Beach Bum, director Harmony Korine's follow-up to Spring Breakers, opened wide this past weekend. The film stars Matthew McConaughey as a Florida Man of the actor's own myth-making. Moondog is his name, and he's somewhat of a local celebrity in Key West, both because of his cult-famous poetry and his magnetic follow-your-bliss attitude, which makes him a great smoking buddy and fuck buddy alike. In other words: Moondog is quintessential McConaughey, the cinematic evolution of a persona he's played up, played against and played around with since bursting onto the scene as the smooth-talking, beer-swilling Texas Peter Pan, David Wooderson, in Dazed and Confused.
But if The Beach Bum captures McConaughey (or our perception of him) in his purest form, it's only because he's taken a long journey to get there. There have been peaks and valleys, bad rom-coms and solid indies, action comedies and a full-on McConaissance, successful blockbusters like Interstellar and forgettable ones like Free State of Jones. And though it may not have been apparent at the time, it's clear, upon reflection, that McConaughey has been sending us signals about the state of his career all along, consciously or not, through his ever-mutable hair.
It sounds insane, I know. But just follow the hairline.
I mean, timeline.
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