Very good, well, Amen: Inside Matthew McConaughey’s ‘Poems & Oreing’ Revival Book Tour

Brooklyn, NY – Matthew McConaughey rarely has a loss by words, or phrases. But when he took the stage at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn, New York, this week, he admitted that he was nervous.

The 55 -year -old Oscar winning actor was acting for a multitude of approximately 2,800 on September 16 to promote his new book, Poems and prayers. I didn’t want to make a typical bookstore press tour. Rather, he thought it would be much more great if he surprised the emerging windows in the parks, reading poetry while perched on a bank. Finally, he landed in a “revival book tour” of five cities, with performances of musical guests from the List A.

Poems and prayers It is a collection of McConaughey poetry written for 36 years, starting when I was 18 years old. This is Hollywood, love, faith, paternity, ex, “carnal desires”, sobriety, “f *** ups”, politicians, portable prayers and aging. Some are written as real prayers, starting with “dear God …”, although he says they are all, writing: “My prayers are my poems are my prayers.”

The book is his attempt to make sense of the world, which has been “more difficult to make lately,” he wrote in him. This is because “the facts have been overveled” and people are willing to demonstrate that the truth is “outdated” and honesty has become “a deceived currency.” He rejects that, saying that he wants to continue believing, in humanity, in itself, in people’s potential.

For me, poems are very of McConaughey’s mind. A wild trip that is a bit everywhere. Like the awards in the back of the book, which thank everyone, from Bob Dylan to Hunter S. Thompson, King Solomon and Rumi and the entire Republic of Mali, Africa.

For the night, one of his experiment, where Jon Bon Jovi united me the Texan and the magician of the word game, joined me in half of the believers of McConaughey on a mysterious tour of spirituality. I gave myself to the church of McConaughey so I can only describe as an opening sermon, where for about 15 minutes he walked along the stage, preaching about the belief that scarce.

“I am not only talking about the belief in God, although I am personally looking for (more) than for myself,” already McConaughey, a more selling author for 2020. Green lightsThat he has sold more than 6 million copies, he said to the crowd. “I am talking about more beliefs in us and between us and what matters to us and tomorrow.”

For someone who has been a Tohespian, king of romantic comedy, Bongo’s political and enthusiastic mockery, he felt like a new chapter in his continuous reinvention, this time as a kind of spiritual hypemar.

“Who would you die for?” He asked in a moment. People shouted: “My mom”, “My nephew”, “Beyoncé”, “You!” He nodded, picked up the answers, then turned them into a lesson: those are the people for whom you should start living.

The beliefs, politics and spirituality of McConaughey are difficult to specify, perhaps on purpose. Whatever it is: book tour, church sermon, a single man show, was unusual, but seemed sincere, in addition to being, well, unequivocally he.

Fans and families, they turn to the church of McConaughey

The crowd was adorned with t -shirts with her Stunned and confused Wooderson character, “Just Keep Livin” Eslóganes and many of the Orange University of Texas in Austin Gear. Factor in his own pants tequila flowing in a lobby bar, and some members of the audience were loose enough to send caps from the mezzanine. (“Read page 69!”, Someone shouted the married father of three children).

What did people get? I took a return through the theater to find out.

Among the attendees were a multigenerational family road from South Carolina, a Brooklynite that recently had a personal revelation. Green lights and a Penylvania high school teacher who had a school in the morning.

“I could hear him talk about the way the wind blows,” Courtney tells Yahoo.

She went to the event from northern Virginia with her younger sister, Ashlyn, who was marking her 21st birthday, as well as her mother, Amanda, and her 75 -year -old grandmother. Amanda spent around $ 240 to $ 280 for the four tickets, “and around $ 100 in drinks”, including McConaughey Tequila shots.

“I’m going to scare myself,” McConaughey Ashlyn tells me before the show. “What do I hope? I hope Matthew is Matthew. To share his words of wisdom. I loved it Green lights. “

She was not the only one. Jennifer, a 42 -year -old Brooklyn girl, bought Green lights A few years ago, but he only read it recently and had a great advance. That’s why she was there.

McConaughey wrote about taking “Walkabouts” to disconnect when he felt overestimulated and clear his head of opinions, he explains. He felt like that when he picked up his memoirs and followed his example.

“I told everyone: ‘Look, I’m not going to answer my text messages for two days,'” he says about making his own walk. “He did wonders,” and added that she believes that “it was ahead of her time” giving that advice five years ago because our use of technology has only increased.

Ironically, an emerging announcement warned of Jennifer on the tour that brought her here tonight. I had no idea that McConaughey had another book coming out and saw it as a sign, so he reduced $ 60 for the experience and was ready to soak everything.

Dayna, 49, moved from Texas to New Jersey, and made a two -hour walk (car, train, subway) to Brooklyn, paying $ 60 on a ticket.

A recent widow who is discovering the following, has been making a point to go out to shows and book readings. The event spoke to him because he has been watching many old films lately. Last summer, he presented his 22 -year -old daughter to Stunned and confused“Then she would know where she came from ‘very well, well, well,'” he tells Yahoo.

Dayna has seen the McConaughey season of True detective Four times, praising writing. She tells How to lose a boy in 10 days As a replaceable favorite and thinks The paperboy It is one of McConaughey’s best roles.

“It’s just a great person’s character,” says Dayna. “I appreciate your values, such as the work you did with Uvalde. And the risks she takes as an actor and creative.”

Christine, 53, and her friend Patty, 55, were part of the crowd and led from Pennsylvania for a night of soft drinks of the girls.

“We become inspired and awakened,” says Christine. “Feel good with today’s world. A small elevation. And in secret, I am a little in love with (Bon Jovi).”

Christine says they spent $ 200 for two tickets, which he paid because Patty agreed to drive. They went home that night, a trip of more than 2 hours, so that Christine could teach high school in the morning.

The teacher was not the only one who traveled through a small candy for the eyes.

Vitali, 35, and Alena, 36, were from Brooklyn through Belarus and Ukraine, and were mainly there for the power of the stars.

“For us, (McConaughey and Bon Jovi) Superstar,” Alena tells Yahoo, and adds that she was curious if they were still “hot.”

Even so, the appeal was deeper than aesthetics.

“Not only that,” says Vitali. “(They are good) human beings. Matthew is a great guy. I read Green lights. It was wonderful. I wanted to be closer to the stage, but those seats were exhausted. ”

2 stars, 1 stage, without script

For $ 60 to $ 100 per ticket (with a $ 29 book to take home), attendees received much more than a typical author event. What developed was an intimate night without a filter with two best stars in its class, a prize shelf between them, only riffing.

McConaughey recited his poems. One, he said, was written while he was in the bathtub in Australia at age 18. At that time, he was considering strongly becoming a monk. I was also listening to U2’s Burst and buzz And he had pleased himself. (Real history).

Bon Jovi, or “JBJ” as McConaughy called it all night, based the experience. Old friends of Filmando 2000 U-571They had casual jokes between pieces. While McConaughey read, the rock legend was torn on the guitar, giving the feeling of being in a private show.

That included hip. It was so without a script that several times began in mid -performance. But when you have two of Hollywood’s greatest talents on stage only by directing the program, they could adjust and only served to make the experience more intimate.

Bon Jovi, who is recovering from his 2022 vocal rope surgery, even sang one of McConaughey’s poems. He said he was cured at this point and being in the microphone “is one step closer to being back to where I belong.”

They touched a little about religion, without entering too deeply. McConaughey is a regular church assistant, he said, but did not say where. Bon Jovi called himself a “Catholic in recovery.” He also said “never lost faith” during his healing trip.

Friends also had a sincere but humorous exchange about aging. One of McConaughey’s poems, “What are you going to do?”, He was written after 50 years, now five years ago, when he was thinking about his mortality, legacy and relevance. He asked how Bon Jovi, 63, felt when he reached that milestone and if he caused deep feelings.

Bon Jovi replied that turning 50 was fine for him, but he told the audience to take many photos at his party that year because it is “your last beautiful birthday”, which suggests that aging seems to accelerate after that. He added: “Even Matthew McConaughey will have to face that demon one day.”

While the show wrapped, after an hour and a half, the audience gave a standing ovation and the velvet curtain fell slowly and the duo was sight. McConaughey was at the next stop on his reactivation tour, and his fans went to the night with his new book of poems hidden under his arms, perhaps a little inspired, perhaps a little stunned and confused, but definitely entertaining in a unique way and McConaughey.