The herald of the three ghosts is the spirit of Connor's late Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), an old-school ladies' man who taught his nephew all his womanizing tricks.
McConaughey credits his own mother as among his best teachers in the ways of love, saying she dispensed far better advice to himself and his two brothers than what Uncle Wayne offers in "Ghosts."
"My mother was always rooting us on, telling us, 'Look, a lot of people see it as the girl's the catch, and the guy just chases. Yes the guy chases, but remember, you're a catch, too.' So it was good hearing that from my mother," he said.
McConaughey will soon have the chance to pass along some of his mother's wisdom to his son Levi, who was born last July.

"I can't wait to talk to my son about women," he said. "We go somewhere now, he knows women, and he flirts with women.

"We put him in front of the duck for the first time. He looks at the duck, and he's like, 'Yeah, that's interesting.' He looks over to the left and there's this beautiful little three-year-old girl with long eyelashes, and he just reaches over and starts petting her hair. And we're like, 'Oh my gosh, there he goes.'"

In addition to what McConaughey calls "this epic that I'm making in raising my son," the Texas-born actor is staying busy acting. He will next star in the courtroom thriller "Lincoln Lawyer," drama "Stolen," and the bar-brawling comedy "The Grackle," which he will also produce.

But the arrival of Levi has made McConaughey more selective about his roles. "If I wanted to do something before Levi in South Africa, and we leave tomorrow -- 'Okay, let's go!'
"But now, there's a bigger circus you pick up," he said. "You're picking up your family. And you go, 'Okay, well, let's talk about this.' So I'm probably a little more selective."

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Jennifer Garner, Matthew McConaughey Talk 'Girlfriends Past' Action
'You have to do it like you're doing an action movie,' McConaughey says of filming the rom-com
It's not unusual to catch both Jennifer Garner and Matthew McConaughey jumping from action films to romantic comedies and back again. She has moved deftly from episodes of "Alias" and stunt-heavy work in the "Daredevil"/ "Elektra" franchise to rom-com fare in "Catch and Release" and "13 Going on 30," while he's taken parts in "Sahara" and "Reign of Fire" but remained a perennial head-turner in films like "Failure to Launch" and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days." Now, both stars come together in "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," a film that McConaughey suggests treads a finer line between genres than you might expect.
"She's athletic and I'm athletic," McConaughey told MTV News, seated next to his co-star, "so we've got a lot of physical comedy in this thing, and what's fun about that is you have to do it like you're doing an action movie."

Though the film boasts quite a bit of practical stunt work, not the least of which includes a downhill car chase through a snowy forest and an intricate cake-balancing act, Garner said that the core approach to any genre is more or less the same and that any role requires a tremendous amount of physical ability.

"You have to use your whole body to act out the scenes," she said, pointing out that subtlety in a dramatic situation can be a bigger challenge than the most intense fight scene.
"Spatial sense is a big thing," McConaughey said of some of the film's more physically demanding slapstick moments. "If you're early, there's too big of a gap and you've got to shoot it again.

If you're late, you've lost the prop and that's where you actually hit the person. Sometimes you go too far. I've done that too."
Thankfully, Garner found herself on less intense terms with the other actors, reuniting with her old friend Christa B. Allen, who played Garner's younger self in "13 Going on 30" and whom she recommended for a similar role in "Ghosts."
But for McConaughey, the biggest highlight of production was playing misguided love-'em-and-leave-'em ladies' man Connor Mead.
"That was one of the funnest parts of this," he said. "For the first third of the movie, I got to not hold back in having as much confidence with this guy as I could — as being the pathetic guy that he is, the rakish guy that he is. It's fun to go that far."

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