Lofland inter

TREY TAYLOR: Do you feel like you were a big part of the McConaissance?

JACOB LOFLAND: Everyone asks me that and I'm not sure. I hope I was, 'cause it obviously helped him. I've worked with Matthew McConaughey twice now; once on Mud and once on something called The Free State of Jones. If he has a really intense scene he'll just start making crazy noises, and gets down and does 20 push-ups as fast as he can to get himself pumped up. When I was 15, Tye Sheridan and I were sitting down and watching Matthew, and it was the craziest thing we'd ever seen. We didn't know what was happening—he was just screaming and running and doing stuff.

TAYLOR: Did you ever join him for those psych-up moments before a take?

LOFLAND: No, but in the morning he always came to work with two 40-pound medicine balls. He was always lifting weights. One morning we were in the boat [on set of Mud] and he had this 40-pound medicine ball, and we got off the boat and he was like, "Hey!" and threw it at me. I grabbed it and just went straight to the ground with it. He cracked right up.

TAYLOR: It must be wild to go from no acting to literally hanging out with Matthew McConaughey every day.

LOFLAND: Yeah, but at the same time I really appreciate the fact that my first role was in Mud and it really got me where I am now. If it hadn't been for that I still would have been working hard to get somewhere. Working with Matthew for the first time, I couldn't have handpicked anybody better to work with. He's the coolest, most laid back Texas country boy; we got along together so well. And you learn a lot from him. People always ask me, what is something Matthew or Reese [Witherspoon] taught you? And really, like whenever you're on set, they joke around a lot, but it's not really what they say that teaches you. It's what they do, how they act, how they do their job.
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