Five years after his last starring role toplining Guy Ritchie’s crime drama The Gentleman, 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 now in theatres ahead of its streaming debut on Apple TV+ on Oct. 3.

In recent years, McConaughey had eased back on his work in front of the camera, but was lured back to acting after producer Jamie Lee Curtis and director Paul Greengrass came to him with the character of Kevin McKay and the script for The Lost Bus.

McConaughey plays real-life hero McKay, a school bus driver struggling with his own personal issues at home, who was called in to help rescue 22 children during the devastating 2018 Camp Fire in Northern Cali

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