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Matthew McConaughey Details What It Took to Wed Camila Alves

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getty 102214 matthewmccaunahey?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1413980829713Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — Matthew McConaughey sheds light on why he married his wife of two years, Camila Alves.

“I had to get to the point where I saw it as more than just the thing to do,” the actor says in the November issue of GQ magazine, out nationwide Oct. 28. “I wanted to really want to. You know, I didn’t want it to be a destination; the fun is that we’re on the adventure together. And look, some of it had to do with her putting it on me. It took her going, ‘C’mon, Big Boy, Mr. Easygoing-We’ll- Get-to-It-When-We-Get-to-It. Either s**t or get off the pot.'”

McConaughey admits it did take some convincing. “We talked about it spiritually. We did a lot of reading and talked to a lot of people that had been divorced, a lot of people that had been happily married. We talked to our pastor,” he explains. “In the end, our understanding was, ‘Let’s go make a covenant, with you, me, and God.'”

Now that he’s married father of three, McConaughey loves being a family man.

“It’s the one thing I’ve always wanted to be. Never is a man more of a man than when he is the father of a newborn,” he says. “You know what’s important. I definitely got more selfish. And at the same time, I think I got more compassionate.”

McConaughey will next be seen on the big screen in Interstellar, which opens Nov. 5.


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