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Matthew McConaughey is convinced heโll be eaten by an alligator.
The โDallas Buyers Clubโ actor has had dreams about his demise and has โa feelingโ he will lose his life โas part of the food chainโ, but insisted heโd prefer to die as part of the โnatural orderโ, rather than in a random accident or a targeted assault.
Speaking on the New York Timesโ โSwayโ podcast, he said: โI got a feeling that Iโm going down as part of the food chain.โ
Host Kara Swisher said: โWhat do you mean? A bear eats you?โ
He replied: โIt was โ the dream was gators.โ
But Matthew admitted heโd also had a dream where he was taken out by a bear and added: โIโd much rather go down that way than getting โ getting shot down in a drive-by. You know, Iโll take one where itโs part of the natural order. Thereโs some grace in that.
โIt may be ugly and painful and bloody, but at least itโs part of the natural order. And for that, Iโll purchase. And after Iโm gone, I hope to say I partook.โ
The 51-year-old star โ who has three children with wife Camila Alves โ recently revealed he likes to go travelling in order to get perspective on his life and reflect on his decisions.
He said: โWhat travel does is you bounce out and all of a sudden you get to look at it, and you get to read the legato. You get to get the big machinations of how the movements were. โWait a minute, where am I in my life?โ
โIโm leaving what I know to find what I maybe need to know. Itโs changing the channel. It opens the aperture to a different light. You actually get objective and look back at what you did in a way that you cannot see when youโre subjectively in it hammering the road every day. So, you get a second perspective.
โSometimes you go, โI did exactly what I wanted to do.โ Most times I go, โEh, well what I wanted to do and what I intended to do actually is not quite what I did, but hey hopefully itโs close enough.'โ