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"Since 2011, Matthew McConaughey has pulled off what might be the most swift and complete career turnaround in Hollywood history. Ever since slick legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer, he&amp;#039;s been on a critical hot streak that culminates this year with the Oscar-nominated Dallas Buyers Club, and the guaranteed-to-be-Emmy-nominated HBO series True Detective.  Digital Spy caught up with McConaughey at the London premiere of Dallas Buyers Club last night and took the opportunity to ask about the process behind his comeback, which has been widely dubbed &amp;quot;The McConaissance&amp;quot;.   &amp;quot;What I had to do was say no to some things, for about six months,&amp;quot; McConaughey revealed. &amp;quot;I got no offers for a year, it was just dry, and luckily I had enough money to pay my rent and put food on the table. &amp;quot;Then I got a call from William Friedkin for Killer Joe, then I got a call from Steven Soderbergh for Magic Mike. So somewhere in that two years I gained a little bit of anonymity, in my opinion. I sort of un-branded from what people were perceiving me to be. &amp;quot; McConaughey is nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof, a Texas electrician who took on the American pharmaceutical industry after being diagnosed with advanced AIDS in 1986.  Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Cate Blanchett win SAG awards True Detective episode 1 review: McConaughey, Harrelson in crime thriller Dallas Buyers Club will be released in the UK on February 7.  Gallery -\u00C2\u00A0The Best and Worst of Matthew McConaughey:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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