Martha Stewart Explains Why She Was ‘Scared’ Working With Matthew McConaughey

Martha Stewart is opening up about collaborating with actor Matthew McConaughey, revealing just why she was, in her own words, “scared.”

On a March 12 episode of her podcast “The Martha Stewart Podcast,” the lifestyle mogul sat down with actor Kate Hudson and reminisced about doing a Super Bowl commercial with McConaughey that aired last month.

“So I just worked with your co-star, Matthew McConaughey,” Stewart told Hudson, who once starred with McConaughey in the 2003 rom-com “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.”

“He’s got me scared, actually,” Stewart confessed. “He scared me.”

Stewart had teamed up with McConaughey for an UberEats commercial that aired during the big game, but his methodical approach to getting into character was something Stewart was, shall we say, ill-prepared for.

“He is a Method actor,” Stewart explained. “He had to play 10 characters, and he got into each character. It takes him about 15 minutes.”

She then described how McConaughey would make the most peculiar sounds in preparation for his roles.

“He’s grunting and breathing and jumping up and down,” Stewart recounted. “That scared me.”

Hudson agreed that McConaughey is someone who made “weird sounds” and later offered Stewart some reassurance, suggesting that one eventually “gets used to it.”

But Stewart confessed that she almost wanted to tell him to “shut the hell up.”