Yes, I've been a "fan" since CL but it was hard because he was in only a handful of movies and the journey as a fan was slow and long.
My husband will sit through it as well - there's enough comedy plus Amy Adams to keep him happy. He's a fan of Matthew's acting and is very tolerant of my obsession. Well - to be fair - he has to be! Awww! You are a lucky lady BritGirl!
Speaking of Leap Year, I just saw this photo gallery "Celebs who hate their own movies" and knew from the title that Leap Year and Matthew Goode would pop up...
http://ca.eonline.com/photos/15445/celebs-who-hate-their-own-movies/46 9374
Celebs Who Hate Their Own Movies
Matthew Goode, Leap Year
The actor wasn't afraid to admit the real reason why he took the role opposite Amy Adams in the rom-com. "The main reason I took it...so that I could come home at the weekends," he told WENN. "It wasn't because of the script, trust me. Do I feel I let myself down? No. Was it a bad job? Yes, it was. But, you know, I had a nice time and I got paid."
Here's the WENN article linked in the blurb: http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/02/24/13006866-wenn-story.html?cid=rss entertainmentmovies
I know MG is very playful and naughty in his responses and he's candidly frank about things which is very endearing on his part; so I'm not surprised he said it.
But it is sad to see how it all went down because later in 2013 in an interview with The Independent, he talks about it:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/matthew-goode-no-one -knows-who-i-am-i-dont-even-know-who-i-am-8493693.html
He was in Zack Snyder's comic-book adaptation Watchmen, playing the cleverest man in world, while another outing, Leap Year, paired him as cheeky-chappie Oirish love interest to Amy Adams – though the less said about that rom-com, soggier than an Irish bog and considerably less appealing, the better.
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Goode frequently anticipates what might be written, sending up his own 'ac-torrr' clichés before anyone else can. But he might have good reason; an interview in 2010 got him in hot water, after quoting him being rather too candid in his criticisms of both Brideshead and Leap Year. "I never really understood what happened, and it took me two years to recover from. Some agenda on [the interviewer's] part, I think," he says, in one of his rare, wholly serious, responses.
Did it make you wary of interviews? "It did. But I still like to go in with good will, and not be defensive, so that we can have a good time. Because it's such a weird process – it's like knowing you're going to sleep with someone and they're going to write about it, effectively," he says, which is itself a pretty candid way of putting it (I do try not to blush).
I don't think Leap Year pretends to be anything other than it is. Critics will slam it of course but if Matthew Goode says that his choice of words cost him two years to recover from, then that is a little sad.
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