For one thing, he doesn’t use a chauffeur, or have assistants ride along with him. The A-list movie star prefers to drive himself to his filming locations. He enjoys driving backroads and side streets, doesn’t mind rolling the driver’s side window down in the heat and acknowledging his fans.“I’ve been driving a Lincoln since long before anybody paid me to drive one,” he says in his smooth Texas drawl in one of his best-known commercials. “I didn’t do it to be cool.
McConaughey shot scenes inside a borrowed Hoover house, a night scene outdoors in the neighborhood and inside Oakmont Chapel Presbyterian Church, an A-frame church on Patton Chapel Road.He flashed aThat was an apparent reference to when the Texas Longhorns play the Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa on Sept. 9.McConaughey drove past the onlookers with his car window rolled down. “It wasn’t like he was trying to block the world away,” Pugh said. “He’s from Texas.
The Frosty Mug in Walker County was outfitted with new signs to transform it into the fictional Ulysses' Steak Sandwiches on June 30, 2023, for filming of "The Rivals of Amziah King." On Friday, McConaughey grabbed a stringed instrument and joined other musicians for a scene on the Frosty Mug’s wooden deck overlooking the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River. Filming went from afternoon on a 100-degree day on into the hot night.