Matthew McConaughey - Dazed & Confused Audition Tape

Before the "McConaissance", Matthew McConaughey was a young struggling actor in Texas stuck doing local commercials. That is, before he got his first big break with cult smash hit, Dazed & Confused.

In 2013, the Criterion Collection released exclusive audition tapes from Dazed & Confused for the film’s 20th anniversary. Matthew McConaughey had been invited to audition for the role of David Wooderson, the older burnout who hangs out with high school students, after a night of drinking with casting director Don Phillips in a bar in Austin, Texas. Phillips was in town to scout locations and local talent for the movie, and McConaughey caught his eye.

“There was this bartender I knew from film school who worked at the Hyatt and would give us a discount, so we went there,” McConaughey told Texas Monthly magazine in 2003. “And when we walk in, he’s there, and he goes, 'Hey, man, the guy down at the end of the bar is in town producing a film.' So I went down and introduced myself.” And the rest, they say, is history.

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