The actor broke down the scene from the Christopher Nolan sci-fi modern classic 10 years later.
Matthew McConaughey looked back on filming that pivotal crying scene in Interstellar, where a drastic time jump occurs to his space-traveler lead role in Christopher Nolan’s powerful sci-fi epic.
In a career retrospective video with Vanity Fair, McConaughey reacted to his emotional reaction as Cooper, an astronaut who, after a nearly failed mission on a water planet experiencing extreme time dilation (an hour there is seven years on Earth), ends up losing 23 years of his young children’s lives in a matter of a few hours.
The actor talked about his prep for the heartbreaking moment: “It was the first scene up. I had gotten good rest that weekend, and I had had a pretty humble, good weekend. I was with my family,” McConaughey explained, touching on the fact that ultimately, the key scene was a one-and-done moment: the first take is what audiences eventually saw in the film.
