'The Dallas Buyers Club': Matthew McConaughey Gets Skinny For Next Role (PHOTO)

Matthew McConaughey may be best known for his romantic -- and most of time, shirtless -- roles. However, on his next project, he's going to be taking things a bit more seriously.

In "The Dallas Buyers Club," the 42-year-old actor will be portraying Ron Woodruff, a real-life electrician who contracted HIV in the '80s. The story follows Woodruff as he goes on the hunt for non-FDA approved HIV medication in an attempt to prolong his life and the lives of those with the disease.

From the looks of this recent photo (below), McConaughey is going all out for the role, losing enough weight to make his trademark "Magic Mike"-esque muscles completely disappear. As he admitted to Larry King earlier this summer (via E! News), the actor planned on shedding 30 pounds in order to correctly portray Woodruff. "I should not look healthy by the time I'm doing this," he said.

Then again, just because McConaughey's known for his rom-com performances doesn't mean he's afraid to push the envelope in those films, too. Take, for instance, "Magic Mike." As he told Moviefone during our "Magic Mike" Unscripted session in July, "Signing onto this film, the word 'No' or 'Hold back' or 'Let's not do that, that will be too scary' or 'That's too racy,' that was out of the vocabulary," he admitted. "So for me, it was always, 'How do we keep pushing the boundaries?'"

Needless to say, McConaughey will have no problem doing that once again -- albeit, in a completely different way -- in "The Dallas Buyers Club," which is set to hit theaters some time in 2013.

[via E!]

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03:26 PM on 08/31/2012

Honestly the last two years have been pretty remarkable for McConaughey. He has turned into one of the most compelling actors around. Its crazy, this guy was basically Ashton Kutcher a few years ago and now he is some of the most interesting films being made with some of the best Directors around (Scorcese, Soderbergh).

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05:53 AM on 08/31/2012

How come I'm thinking that sure you can Do Him ... BUT I KNOW YOU WOULD A LOT BETTER TIME DOING ME

05:39 AM on 08/31/2012

High Protien Diet and Vegitable basically stuff that wont turn your stomach ... in the 80's they had NO Pills then in the 90's they were OVER DOSING PEOPLE and it wasn't until the mid 90's that they started using the Cocktails ... THE BONE MARROW EXPERIMENTS WERE ONLY BEING DONE IN NEW YORK ... Basically when they found the cure ... Not many people know what Experiments were meant to treat other diseases and NOT the Patient ... they offered $700 to $1000 to do a trial and make these people think it was for them ... Some of these people were taking 30 to 100 pills a days to counter act side effects and kill the bacteria forming in their body just from the Food they ate

05:24 AM on 08/31/2012

I Can't Wait to see the SEX Scenes ... Can you rate it XXX

05:32 AM on 08/31/2012

High Protien Diet ... Back then they were overdosing people ... it wasn't the disease it was drugs 30 to 100 pills a day is NO FUN ... THE BONE EXPERIMENTS WERE ONLY BEING DONE IN NEW YORK in the 1994 and it wasn't until 1995 they started using people as Lab Rats and putting them on all the Cocktails

tedde2kool

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04:29 AM on 08/31/2012

He appears to be on the 30 day cocaine rapid weight loss diet, commonly used during the 70s.

angelacjames

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04:10 AM on 08/31/2012

No role is worth doing that to your body. What a shame that he got into such excellent shape for the Magic Mike movie and now he is stressing his body out by wasting away on purpose. Losing that kind of weight is going to show up in wrinkles too. He may regret this as he sees some of the effects may be permanent. I wonder what his wife thinks?

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LennyD

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02:54 AM on 08/31/2012

These HIV-AIDS movies don't fare well at the box office. Too depressive.

John Hanekamp

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01:46 AM on 08/31/2012

I dont think he looks that thin in the pics.

Voneta Kirschman

01:26 AM on 08/31/2012

With all the high tech nowadays why can't they just make him look thinner instead of risking health problems by getting so thin? They can make actors look fatter (Eddie Murphey, Gweneth Paltrow to name a few) Christian Bale did the same thing for one of his movies and he nearly died. Matthew was on a talk show the other night and he looked downright weird. The weight loss took away his good looks totally. Kinda freaky lookin'. Hopefully he'll win an Oscar for LOSING, otherwise ...not worth it!

catscats

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12:42 AM on 08/31/2012

Looks like he has been very successful with his diet... would he like to share it with
some of us that can't seem to lose weight? What is his secret to dropping the lbs?

pilotswife

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12:26 AM on 08/31/2012

He looks nasty . At his age he shouldn't put that kind of strain on his body.

Dan Crabtree

757 Fans

11:57 PM on 08/30/2012

Oh has this story not been done ohhh..at least five seperate times..

kjjmac51

112 Fans

11:35 PM on 08/30/2012

I have read that one of the riskiest things one can do in life is to keep "yo-yo-ing in weight;that is,gaining,then losing,then gaining,then losing a lot of weight. It puts great stress on your heart. It amazes me what people will do for a stupid movie. For God's sake,push a product instead of doing something so unhealthy..for what? Is a movie more important than your LIFE? Sorry to say,Matthew,but no one will go see the movie anyway. You can't act and you have never been in a memorable movie. Now,you are not even worth looking at. Very sad.

EVERYONELOVESTEDDYBEARSS

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10:41 PM on 08/30/2012

Hope he doesn't have cancer.

I believe that people with HIV WERE /ARE DYING FROM THE MEDICATION ITSELF.

FROM MY MICRO CLASS ABOUT VIRUSES....................I DEDUCE THE FOLLOWING:

VIRUSES ARE A...............MAZ..............ING....AND I BELIEVE THIS ONE IS AS WELL.....ALL VIRUSES LEARN TO LIVE SYNERGISTICALLY WITHIN THE HOST BODY AS IT KNOWS THAT IF IT KILLS THE HOST.................IT DIES TOO.

NO VACCINATION CAN DO WHAT THE VIRUSES DO TO PROLONG THE HOSTS LIFE............... THAT IS WHY I BELIEVE THERE IS NO VACCINATION NOR WILL THERE EVER BE A VACCINATION.....

I BELIEVE ALL VACCINATIONS ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE.

M Jeana Matney

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10:35 PM on 08/30/2012

wow I hope he is under a doctors care with losing all the weight for movie.

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