NEW YORK – Matthew McConaughey has gone from advertising for going out and driving to selling people on staying home, and says that successfully navigating this crisis could bring great things from Hollywood and humanity.
The Academy Award winner whose meditative commercials for Lincoln vehicles have been a TV and YouTube staple for years is the narrator, co-writer and co-creator of a public service announcement promoting isolation and safety amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We are at war with a virus, and health care troops and first responders are on the front line fighting it everyday.” McConaughey says over images of masked medical workers, children tending to backyard plants, and empty highways. “Let's join the fight by staying home.”