- Title: USA: New Matthew McConaughey movie premieres in Hollywood
- Date: 29th April 2009
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (APRIL 27, 2009) (REUTERS) "GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST" MOVIE POSTER ACTRESS JENNIFER GARNER ARRIVING AT PREMIERE/PULL-OUT TO MOVIE POSTER ACTOR MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY POSING FOR PHOTOS WITH GIRLFRIEND CAMILLA ALVES TOUR BUS DRIVES DOWN HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD PAST PREMIERE/PULL-OUT TO MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY POSING FOR PHOTOS ACTOR MICHAEL DOUGLAS AND ACTRESS ANNE ARCHER WALK AND TALK ON RED CARPET ACTRESS LACEY CHABERT POSING FOR PHOTOS ACTOR ROBERT FORSTER TALKING TO REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY ON HIS CO-STARS JENNIFER GARNER AND MICHAEL DOUGLAS, SAYING: "Meeting her, you know why. She's got her own thing going on, and very secure with who she is and how she does it. Then we really wanted Michael Douglas for the part of Uncle Wayne. And I wanted somebody that I could look up to. Sort of my mentor in the film. And, he got a hold of it, and everything from how he held his cocktail to how he put his glasses on. You could tell he was really revelling in the taste of the role. And it's colourful, it's funny. He's got some of the most classic lines in the movie." (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR MICHAEL DOUGLAS ON WORKING WITH MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, SAYING: "I really enjoyed him a lot. But since he's...he wasn't married at the time, since he's had Camilla and the child, he's settled down, you know. You just get much more centred. So I think this is just the best, really best leading man role. You know he's got really good character, good character stuff. You know surfer dude stuff. But this one he stepped up as a real leading man. And I think it's going to be a big picture for him." (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS JENNIFER GARNER ON MAKING ROMANTIC COMEDIES, SAYING: "I think the whole point of an actor is that you don't do the same thing every day. But I do love to do a romantic comedy, you always smell good, you always look good. You're not sweaty and gross and you don't have to cry all the time. It's fun." (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR ROBERT FORSTER ON PLAYING A COMEDIC ROLE FOR THE FIRST TIME, SAYING: "I have never gotten a role that really had comedy potential. I mean I've caught a couple of laughs in a movie from time to time. But this one was designed for laughs." ACTRESS JENNIFER GARNER TALKING TO REPORTERS
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- Story Text: Actor Matthew McConaughey joins his on-screen leading lady Jennifer Garner on the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of their new romantic comedy "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past." The film presents a new take on the classic Charles Dickens story "A Christmas Carol."
Actor Matthew McConaughey joined his on-screen leading lady Jennifer Garner on the red carpet on Monday (April 27) at the Hollywood premiere of their new romantic comedy "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past".
The film offers a new take on the classic Charles Dickens story "A Christmas Carol".
McConaughey plays celebrity photographer Connor Mead, a man who loves freedom, fun and women, in that order.
A committed bachelor with a no-strings policy, he thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call.
That is, until he is haunted by the ghosts of his former girlfriends at his younger brother's wedding.
The women take him on a journey through his romantic history (Ã la Ebenezer Scrooge) to help make him aware of his ways with women, as well as of what he might lose forever with the one woman he has loved since childhood.
Veteran actor Michael Douglas plays the flamboyant uncle who first taught him how to seduce a woman.
Speaking at the premiere, McConaughey, 39, talked about how much he liked working with Garner and Douglas.
"Meeting her, you know why. She's got her own thing going on, and very secure with who she is, and how she does it. Then we really wanted Michael Douglas for the part of Uncle Wayne. And I wanted somebody that I could look up to. Sort of my mentor in the film. And, he got a hold of it, and everything from how he held his cocktail to how he put his glasses on. You could tell he was really revelling in the taste of the role. And it's colourful, it's funny. He's got some of the most classic lines in the movie."
Also at the premiere, Douglas spoke fondly of his co-star, McConaughey.
"I really enjoyed him a lot," smiled Douglas, 64. "But since he's...he wasn't married at the time, since he's had Camilla and the child, he's settled down, you know. You just get much more centred. So I think this is just the best, really best leading man role. You know he's got really good character, good character stuff. You know surfer dude stuff. But this one he stepped up as a real leading man. And I think it's going to be a big picture for him."
Garner, 37, who recently gave birth to her second child with husband Ben Affleck, explained why she loved making romantic comedies.
"I think the whole point of an actor is that you don't do the same thing every day. But I do love to do a romantic comedy, you always smell good, you always look good. You're not sweaty and gross and you don't have to cry all the time. It's fun."
Meanwhile, character actor Robert Forster said he felt fortunate to have been given the chance to be funny on the big screen for the first time.
"I have never gotten a role that really had comedy potential. I mean I've caught a couple of laughs in a movie from time to time. But this one was designed for laughs."
Mark Waters directed the film, which was shot in Boston last summer.
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" will be released across North America on May 1, 2009. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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