In what movie did matthew mcconaughey say alright alright alright

"Alright alright alright" is the catchphrase most associated with Matthew McConaughey. In fact, they were the very first lines he ever uttered in a movie.

As most Matthew McConaughey fans will know, the actor burst onto the screen and into our lives in the movie 'Dazed and Confused'.

Promoting his new memoir 'Greenlights' last night, the Oscar winner appeared on 'The Late Late Show'.

During the interview, Ryan Tubridy asked him abut where the catchphrase came from.

McConaughey said: "That phrase follows me or precedes me where ever I go. And people go, 'Does that ever annoy you?' And I say no, and let me tell you why, those are the first three words I ever said on film. In a little summer job on a film called 'Dazed and Confused' in 1992."

"At that time, I didn't know if that was the only time I'd ever be in front of a camera in my life," the actor continued. "I didn't know if it was going to be just a little three-day hobby and I'd never be in front of a camera again. 28 years later, here we are. It's turned out to be a career."

He talked about how his character Wooderson in 'Dazed and Confused' originally only had three lines in the entire script. One night, he was visiting the set and doing a wardrobe and makeup test when the director, Richard Linklater, came up with a scene in which Wooderson drives up next to a girl and tries to pick her up.

There was no script for the scene and it was his first time ever in a movie. So naturally McConaughey felt nervous and anxious.

"But I'm going over in my head, 'Who is my man? I'm Wooderson, so what is Wooderson about?' And I'm going well Wooderson is about his car, and I'm like boom, look at this. I'm in my '70s Chevelle. There's one. And then I'm like Wooderson likes to get high. Well Slater's riding shotgun, he's always got a doobie rolled up. There's two.

"Wooderson's about rock'n'roll. And I got Ted Nugent "Strangehold" in the 8-track, I'm listening to that. There's three. And then all of a sudden I hear 'Action!' And I say to myself 'Wooderson is about picking up chicks.' And in my mind, as I put it in drive, 'Well I got three out of four and I'm going to get the fourth - Alright alright alright.'"

Matthew McConaughey's ad libbing method hasn't always been foolproof though.

He also appeared on 'The Graham Norton Show' last night and told a story about working on the film 'Scorpion Spring' which went a bit wrong.

When you think of Matthew McConaughey, what’re the first words that come to your mind?

It’s gotta be:

“Alright, alright, alright.”

It’s no secret that McConaughey has become easily one of the most well known and beloved actors in not only America, but the world.

He’s 100% the kinda guy you want to sit down and roll one up with, and listen to him talk away about some wild stories he’s collected over his 30-plus year acting career.

Although many of us have known him as a football coach given the tall task of restoring a program in We Are Marshall, a homer on Failure to Launch, the man getting played on How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, the Lincoln Lawyer, and so many others, a lot of us who were born in the late ’90s and later aren’t familiar with how the man got his start.

And no, we’re not talking about his appearance in Trisha Yearwood’s music video for her iconic 1992 hit “Walkaway Joe.”

We’re talking about the movie that put him on the map, the 1993 classic Dazed and Confused.

I’ll admit, I had no clue where the “alright, alright, alright” saying was made famous, but McConaughey himself sat down recently to talk about how he came up with the iconic line while filming for Dazed and Confused.

In the video, he explains:

“Next thing you know I’m sitting in my ’70 Chevelle, about to shoot the very first scene I’ve ever done on film, and there’s not a scene written. All I know is that I pull up, I gotta go try to pick up the red headed intellectual, and I’m sitting there and I’m starting to get a little anxious, and I’m starting to run through my mind, ‘Who’s my man, who is Wooderson? What am I about?

And I say ‘I’m about my car,’ here we go I’m in my ’70 Chevelle, I say ‘I’m about rock & roll,’ so I got Ted Nugent on the 8-track rockin’, there’s two. I said ‘I’m about gettin’ high,’ so I said Slater’s riding shotgun he’s always gotta doobie rolled up, next thing you know I hear ‘Action.’ And I hear action, and I look down across the way…”

That’s when he pulls up to the car full of women in his first movie ever, and it all finally hits him:

“And in my mind when I put it in drive and say, ‘Fourth thing I’m about is chicks.’

I got three out of four going to get the fourth? Alright, alright, alright.”

Although the movie was never shot on scene, the iconic line can be heard while he’s driving the car from a distance, and that’s how Mr. Alright Alright Alright came to be.

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