UNITED KINGDOM: Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson team up once again on big screen and at European premiere of Fool's Gold

Record ID: 219954

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson team up once again on big screen and at European premiere of Fool's Gold
  • Date: 17th April 2008
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (APRIL 10, 2008) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, SAYING "My moustache grows slow. (turns around and waves to fans chanting 'Matthew! Matthew!') I better start now because this is just peach fuzz (stroking his face). It takes a while."
  • Embargoed: 2nd May 2008 13:00
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  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
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  • Story Text: The stars of the adventure comedy attended the European premiere of their film in London's Leicester Square on Thursday (April 10).
    After the success of their first romantic comedy "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days", the Hollywood A-listers hoped to repeat success with their latest offering.

    "Fool's Gold" earned 22 million U.S. dollars for the three days it opened in the United States, beginning on Friday February 8, according to estimates issued by its distributor, Warner Bros. Pictures. The Time Warner Inc-owned studio said the tally exceeded its expectations by 3 million to 4 million USD.
    McConaughey charmed the crowd waiting in the blistery spring chill in the British capital by taking his time to sign autographs and take pictures with excited fans, mostly girls and women. Hudson sparkled in a light green, Indian-inspired gown by British designer John Galliano. She said she was all too happy to be working with one of her friends again, although their ease around each other means the two can say nearly anything -- and oftentimes do.

    "I guess we are kind of like and old married couple now. Yeah you know we got along really well and I think it started on 'How to Lose A Guy (in Ten Days)' and thankfully we had such awesome success on that film and we got to do it again and in the States we had awesome success with this one and it's been such an enjoyable success to be able to have fun with somebody and do it again and again and hopefully again get a third in."
    In the movie, McConaughey's Ben "Finn" Finnegan is a career booty hunter whose burning obsession concerns the legendary Queen's Dowry, a shipload of priceless Spanish treasure believed to have sunk in Caribbean waters in the early 1700s.
    His latest ill-fated expedition has landed him in deep water with ruthless rapper-gangster Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart), with whom he already is in escalating debt.
    While Finn is being forced to walk the plank off Bigg Bunny's boat, his ex is about to mark the spot on their divorce papers. Even though the Queen's Dowry was what initially brought them together, for the past eight years Kate Hudson's Tess has watched their marriage continually place second to Finn's undersea pursuits.
    Determined to get her life back on track, she's been working as a steward aboard the Precious Gem, a huge yacht owned by billionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland).
    But when Finn finds a shard of a plate that puts the treasure in the immediate vicinity, all is forgiven, and the pair resume the joint hunt with Nigel's support, along with his alarmingly dim-witted daughter (Alexis Dziena).
    McConaughey, who is often photographed shirtless, was once named the "World's Sexiest Man" by People magazine. The 38-year-old Texan native is famed for his low-maintenance approach to life. He was once arrested for playing bongos in the nude, and was recently living in a Malibu trailer park until he decided to buy a nearby 10 million USD home. He and his Brazilian girlfriend, model Camila Alves, are expecting their first baby in July.
    He said he started taking parental notes of his co-star when they filmed the movie in Australia.

    "She (Kate Hudson) had her son on the set travelling and I know when I have my child boy or a girl I don't know, I want it to travel with me.
    That's been my favourite thing in my life, is that my education has come through travel," McConaughey told Reuters Television.
    But Hudson said her co-star didn't need parenting advice
    "He's going to be a great dad. He's going to be a fun dad. And he's already sort of had that shift happen when you're about to become a parent and it really shifts when you become a parent and we'll have a lot of fun things to talk about," she said.
    So are McConaughey's Hawaiian shirt-wearing days behind him? It's not likely as he's slated to appear in the upcoming "Surfer Dude" and as the playboy moustached detective Magnum P.I.
    But McConaughey admitted his ability to grow facial hair wasn't the best.

    "My moustache grows slow. I better start now because this is just peach fuzz. It takes a while," he said.

    "Fool's Gold" opens at cinemas across the UK on April 18.
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