When Matthew McConaughey chose 'Dallas Buyers Club' over $15 million offer

Matthew McConaughey once refused a tempting offer of $15 million instead to do Dallas Buyers Club.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar-winner received a cool $15 million offer against 15 percent of the backend to act in Universal's take on Magnum, P.I.

Citing sources, THR claimed the True Detective star received an upfront fee in the low six figures (under $200,000).

In another instance, The Gentlemen star rejected another whopping offer of: $14.5 million paycheck in 2010 to make another rom-com, according to IndieWire.

McConaughey does not name which rom-com film he turned down, "I declined the offer," McConaughey writes. "If I couldn't do what I wanted, I wasn't going to do what I didn't, no matter the price."

McConaughey's career drastically turned in 2011 when the actor sidelined his typecast roles in rom-com to explore different genres.

Since moving away from the rom-com genre with the last movie of 2009's Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past, McConaughey has bagged the Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club, followed by a role in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.