A HERO FOR HEROIN
that. Is the Internet evil? No. Is money evil? No.”
According to McConaughey — who’s according to celebritynetworth.com is worth $95 million — money is only as evil as its owner.
“The value of a dollar is something I was fortunate to learn from my dad and I still don’t walk past a penny and think, ‘Ooh, maybe I need to pick that up,’” he said.
The 47-year-old Oscar winner then laughed and admitted “Yes, I do!” when asked if he actually picks up pennies off the street.
Further illustrating McConaughey’s point, the film’s afterparty at The Plaza Hotel’s Palm Court was sponsored by Wild Turkey, where he’s a pitchman.
McConaughey says that he met his “Gold” co-star Howard on another project years ago and loaned her money to start work on something she had in the cooker, though he doesn’t recall what that was and hasn’t been paid back yet either.
“She still owes me money!” he insists. “The interest is going up.” A recovering addict, “Gold” writer and director has a solution to the current opiate crisis. “I’m very pro-decriminalization of all drugs … heroin, all of them,” he told us at the film’s AMC Loews premiere. “What’s the best way to handle (addicts)? Is it to criminalize them? Or do you legalize (drugs), and use money off the taxation to help them? I think that’s a much better solution.”