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ON HIS METAL: McConaughey “whoops and canters” through Gold, with a little help from Bryce Dallas Howard (top left and bottom right) and Édgar Ramírez (bottom left).
STUDIO CANAL
ANYONE WHO THOUGHT Matthew McConaughey stole Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street with his high-wired stockbroker act—strutting and whistling and telling Leonardo DiCaprio’s novice to “fuck the clients”—will get a kick or two from Gold. The plot, which writer-director Stephen Gaghan partly bases on a 1997 Canadian mining scandal, centers on Kenny (McConaughey), a gonzo prospector who gambles everything on striking gold in Indonesia. Chain-smoking, potbellied, with a receding comb-over, Kenny is fighting to pull out of a dive after the recession of the early ’80s. Operating from a dimly lit local bar where his girlfriend, Kay (Bryce Dallas Howard), waits tables, he’s not far removed from the sketchy lawyer McConaughey played in The Lincoln Lawyer in 2011, prepping cases from the back of his car.