Five years after his last starring role toplining Guy Ritchie’s crime drama The Gentlemen , Matthew McConaughey admits he had forgotten how fun acting could be.

“You reminded me,” the Oscar winner says, nodding at America Ferrera, his co-star in The Lost Bus , a new drama Apple will release into theatres on Sept. 19 before it makes its streaming debut on Apple TV+ on Oct. 3 .

“America was reminding me that I didn’t realize how much I missed acting until I did it again,” the father of three tells Postmedia in an interview at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

A regular fixture on the rom-com scene in the early aughts, McConaughey reinvented himself a decade ago with meatier dramatic roles. He started that bid in earnest with an Oscar-winning turn in 2013’s Dallas

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