What happened to Matthew McConaughey's face?

He lost all the weight for Dallas Buyers Club. His face never looked the same after.

One frigging movie ruined it? Geez, he should've consulted Christian Bale.

Yes when he lost the weight for Dallas Buyers Club it ruined his face permanently. Same for Christian Bale.

R2 what would that have done? Just because Bale can lose weight and look fine after doesn’t mean Matthew will have the same effect.

What works for one doesn’t mean it will work for another.

He looks like complete shit in those Dorito's commercials. I can't believe he allowed it to be released at all let alone during the Super Bowl!

He's 50 years old now! I know from experience, your face looks different than what it did in your 20s and 30s. I look in the mirror and I see two of my grandparents looking at me. Trust me, it will happen to you, too.

R6 is right. As we age we lose fat and bone in our face.

but he lost his face well before 50

As pointed out above, r50, that's due to the extreme weight loss he did for the DBC movie. But at least he got an Oscar out of it, so there's that.

Plus, I think for many, if not most, male actors who first make it big because they're considered handsome, losing (or destroying) their looks is something they they think will raise their stature, making people take them more seriously. Look at Di Caprio, he's an extreme example. I don't get the feeling either of them mourn their lost looks.

Whatever do you mean?...

He should have been 400 pounds like most DL golden girls, then he would never lose his shine!

I call some sort of illness /medication combo on this. He looks incredibly bad in the Doritos commercial and that's with good lighting and digital enhancement. Not just old, but like something is wrong. Also getting stoned on a regular basis does catch up with you at some point.

Why are you showing an old pic, OP? Where is the new, supposedly horrible face?

Jared Leto must drink the blood of virgins- he's lost and gained weight a couple of times.... I need his derm/surgeon!

When you're 50 and determined to go around shirtless showing an eight pack, you're going to have a hollow, sickly face. It's inevitable, unless you get a face full of fillers that make you look like you have a subdermal infection. Any attempt to defy age at some point looks like illness.

R14 This is what you want to look like? He looks like half the homeless junkies wandering around San Francisco.

I'm a McConaughey on my mom's side. I got thin at the beginning of quarantine and looked like death, even just 10 lbs makes a dramatic difference. We're rangy, long Celtic (?) people who need a certain amount of body fat- see Liam Neeson in that Scorsese monk movie, Christian Bale all the time, and I'm sure there are others I can't think of. We make lanky warriors who can quickly climb the clifts of Scotland and Ireland... I assume. But can look drawn very quickly.

No matter what, I'd give him the best blow job he ever had.

R17 - Did ever meet Matthew? Any stories to tell?

Compared to how rough Michael Phelps looks now in those commercials he’s in, Matthew looks still beautiful!

Can't he just get really overweight for a while to regain fat in his face before slowly dieting the excess pounds off his body only?

He's a weirdo or meth head or both.

R14 Jared Leto has morphed into Courtney Cox. The Botox frozen forehead doesn't help.

R19, no I'm sorry. I oversold- in the sense of being a "Smith", having the same name. I'm not sure of an actual blood connection. We just share the body type and name.

Very photoshopped.

[quote]“At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.” — Catherine Deneuve

[quote]He's 50 years old now! I know from experience, your face looks different than what it did in your 20s and 30s. I look in the mirror and I see two of my grandparents looking at me. Trust me, it will happen to you, too.

I'm in my forties and when I look in the mirror now I really see my father. It's rather startling how much your looks can change as you age.

It's called "from bad to worse."