All is 'back to normal now' for Matthew McConaughey

NEW YORK – He's gotten major critical notice for playing a decaying stripper in Magic Mike, a creepy fugitive in Mud and an unlikely AIDS activist in the forthcoming Dallas Buyer's Club.

But Matthew McConaughey, the golden-haired veteran of countless chick flicks, isn't averse to doing a few more in the future, provided the script and timing were right.

"I still plan on doing some comedies. I still plan on doing character work," he says. "I'm not ruling out a romantic comedy. Those are fun. But I'd done a bunch of them so I stopped doing those a while. But I do enough of these dramas, it might be nice to go out into the light again and have a sane Saturday. Nothing wrong with that."

In town on Saturday in sultry Gotham for the annual Veuve Clicquot polo challenge, this time benefiting his Just Keep Livin' foundation, McConaughey was cool and sleek in his suit. "I like to match whites," he says.

His two sons and daughter, with wife Camila Alves, were back in the Big Easy. "The kids are in New Orleans, back at work in New Orleans where I'm working. They've got their chores," says McConaughey.

McConaughey wasn't in denial about his noted ability to kick back and have a good time. "I do like tequila but you know, tequila 'round noon, you'd better watch it," he says.

Who'd win in a bar crawl, him or Alves?

"Who can throw down? We're both pretty good at it when we get focused," he says.

He whittled down his frame for Dallas Buyers, but that's all in the past. "It's back to normal now. I'm holding at a certain weight now. I've gained 35 pounds," he says. "I'm good and holding. I wrote a diary along the way about what the body goes through and what you go through mentally and physically."