It was the line — and the drawl — that launched a thousand impersonations. "Welcome to the Dallas Buyers Club", a film that shone a light on a lesser-known corner of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the climax to one of the most famous about-turns in modern acting history. And, of course, Dallas Buyers Club — which has now been added to Netflix in the US — at last won Matthew McConaughey a much-anticipated Oscar.
A few years before, the actor had taken hold of his own career, turned his back on rom-coms and investing in his talents in lower-budget indies like Bernie (re-uniting him with director Richard Linklater, who gave him his breakthrough role in 1993's Dazed and Confused, Killer Joe, The Paper Boy and Mud, giving him characters he could really get his teeth into. The McConnaissance, as it became known, made him one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood so he could pick and choose his roles, from the lead in Interstellar to the stunning one-scene cameo in The Wolf Of Wall Street that turned the film on its head.
