For his rather saucy role as a stripper in ‘Magic Mike’, Matthew McConaughey had to wear a thong on a regular basis, something which he had to get used to on set, and he comments that it is hard to trust a thong because he often didn’t feel covered enough! Matthew reveals how he felt the very first time he put it on and how unprotected he felt:
”As far as trusting wardrobe, it is one of the larger leaps of faith to trust a thong. Really. It weighs like what a dollar bill weighs. It weighs nothing, and you’re going, ‘This is the only protection… at the end of this performance, this is the only protection that I have.’ So, the first time you put it on you’re going, ‘What is every possible angle I can be in and I gotta check to see if it’s really covered, [if] everything is covered.’
He felt even weirder when he had to hang out wearing a thong in between scenes because he had to talk and act normally while wearing it, which he found hugely uncomfortable at first and he says it took some time to get used to because he felt wearing it was unnatural:
”I had to put on the thong and kind of walk around and try to have normal conversations. You have to talk about football or what you ate last night, something. Then that’s what’s funny, and then you lean against a wall, like, ‘Now I’m just hanging out, man,’ to get comfortable with it because the first time you put it on your body kind of contorts and you’re like, ‘I need straighten up, my shoulders back or something, hips out.’ It is somewhat unnatural.”
