Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey has spoken up on running for the post of the governor of Texas. However, he is currently catering to his priorities.
The actor hasn`t ruled out running for public office, but he has familial duties that require his attention, reports ‘People’ magazine.
When asked if he is still interested in a political future, such as running for the governor`s seat in his home state Texas, he told ‘People’, “I don`t know. Like I said, it`s something I started looking into probably six years ago and something I`ve continued to study. What that arena is, what it would mean, how could I be useful in it, would I be useful in it?”
Politics, he adds, is “not necessarily my language, but that would happen if and when it was something that I couldn`t not do. It would happen when I would look up and see that I`m pulled into it in a way that, `Oh, I have to’”.
As per ‘People’, the actor, who stars in Apple TV+`s ‘The Lost Bus’, flirted with a potential campaign for the governor`s seat in Texas back in 2021 but ultimately decided against getting in the race in the 2022 election cycle. With the 2026 election looming just over a year away, the actor said that if he gets into politics, it may have to wait until his three children are all grown up.
He said, “For now, I`m very secure with, the original thing I knew I always wanted to be was a dad”. He shares oldest son Levi, 17, daughter Vida, 15, and younger son Livingston, 12, with wife Camila Alves McConaughey.
“So let me do what I can with Camila to get these three kids out of the house as healthy individuals, as much as I can make that possible. And then opportunities or choices I can make, I`ll be much more free to make choices”, he added.
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