Matthew McConaughey has done a little bit of everything, with his best movies being both dramatic and comedic. He's one of the best and most bankable stars in the business, and he has so many massive projects under his belt. However, it turns out he could've been in another massive HBO project after True Detective, The Last of Us. The showrunner of the popular series recently revealed that McConaughey was eyed to play Joel on the series, and I'm not exactly "alright, alright, alright."
During a recent interview on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, The Last of Us producer Craig Mazin confirmed that Pedro Pascal wasn’t the only high-profile actor in consideration for the role of Joel Miller, one of the protagonists in post-apocalyptic video game adaptation. Though it sounds like things didn't get too serious with Matthew McConaughey, it would certainly appear that he was indeed in the mix early on:
