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In the two-plus decades since his big screen debut at age 19 in Steven Spielberg s
Amistad, Chiwetel Ejiofor has carved out a successful and wide-ranging career. He s starred in more than 40 films, playing a variety of roles from a newlywed in
Love Actually, to a drag queen in
Kinky Boots, a sorcerer in
Doctor Strange and the lead in 2013 s
12 Years a Slave, for which he earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination. I ve always felt very fortunate with the work that I ve been able to do, Ejiofor, 43, tells PEOPLE in the latest issue. Always wanted to try a lot of different things, and to put on a lot of different kinds of costumes.
In a matter of a few years, Matthew McConaughey transformed himself from romcom hottie into an award-winning actor in heavyweight films. (Photo: Gallo Images/Getty Images)
Matthew McConaughey’s blue eyes gleam with happiness as he starts to re-enact the time his mother tried to kill his father in front of him.
It happened in the family kitchen one Wednesday night in 1974 after Jim McConaughey came home from selling oil pipes and asked for extra potatoes. His wife, Kay, sneered at him for being fat. Things escalated from there.
Jim, a bear of a man who had played American football for the Green Bay Packers, flipped the table over. Kay ran to the wall-mounted phone to call the police but instead held the receiver in her hand, “like a club”, recalls Matthew, who was four at the time and had fled to the next room to follow the action from behind a sofa.