Genuinely believe Matthew McConaughey’s four year run from 2011 to 2014 is the greatest career rebrand an actor has ever pulled off. Early in his career, McConaughey became Hollywood’s go-to rom-com guy. THE WEDDING PLANNER, HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, FAILURE TO LAUNCH, FOOL’S GOLD. Add the shirtless action movies and it felt like his entire career had been reduced to one very specific version of Matthew McConaughey. Then after GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST, he basically said enough. McConaughey has talked openly about telling his agent he wasn’t doing rom-coms anymore. He spent roughly two years turning down roles he knew he could easily get, even while the offers kept coming. Eventually there was nothing. He had to sit there and wait for Hollywood to figure out what to do with him. (CBS News) And then look at what happened. 2011: THE LINCOLN LAWYER, BERNIE, KILLER JOE 2012: MUD, MAGIC MIKE, THE PAPERBOY 2013: DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET 2014: INTERSTELLAR, TRUE DETECTIVE That’s an absurd four year run. He went from romantic comedy leading man to playing a sleazy killer in KILLER JOE, a bizarre small-town undertaker in BERNIE, a fugitive in MUD, a stripper’s boss in MAGIC MIKE, Ron Woodroof in DALLAS BUYERS CLUB and one of the most memorable small supporting characters in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. Then he comes back as the lead of Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR and stars in TRUE DETECTIVE. And the crazy part is that he didn’t just become “the serious Matthew McConaughey.” He completely changed what people thought he could do. DALLAS BUYERS CLUB won him the Oscar. MAGIC MIKE became a huge hit. TRUE DETECTIVE became a phenomenon. INTERSTELLAR proved he could carry a massive studio movie. Even at the time, critics were calling it an astonishing turnaround. (Roger Ebert’s Reviews) So now I’m genuinely curious. Who else pulled off a career rebrand this dramatic? Charlize Theron? Robert Pattinson? Jim Carrey? Robin Williams? Adam Sandler? Even Ben Affleck? Who actually did it better than McConaughey?