The 42-year-old actor said that the success of 2001 film "Wedding Planner" ensured he was asked to do further films in the genre, but he never planned it like that, reported Contactmusic.
"Truth is, I was in a colder part of my career at the time. I was coming off, what was it, 'U-571'? I had to try different things. I did action movies, crime; and then I did 'Wedding Planner'. I thought, let's go see what it's like to just be light; never done that before. And then, it made a whole bunch of money, and they came back, and offered me more," McConaughey.
Despite this, the Texas-born actor, who is starring in thriller "Killer Joe", said that he still takes humour very seriously.
"I take the comedy real seriously. There's a whole plan behind it. Even though those characters look like I'm just skating through, there's a design behind it. They look easy-breezy' but if you go digging too deep into the character, you sink the ship," he added.