A frighteningly thin McConaughey was almost unrecognisable as he arrived on the set of his current project, &lsquo;The Wolf of Wall Street,&rsquo; in New York City. <img alt="Matthew McConaughey" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/aug/Matthew_1.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 356px; " /> Matthew McConaughey. Pic/Santa Banta Wearing a white T-shirt, jeans and flip flops, the &lsquo;Fool&rsquo;s Gold,&rsquo; who had recently played a hunky stripper in the raunchy movie &lsquo;Magic Mike,&rsquo; was a shadow of his former self. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m playing a guy who was sick and would have loved to have been healthier but wasn&rsquo;t,&rdquo; the Daily Mail quoted him as telling Larry King.u00a0&ldquo;For me, it&rsquo;s more of a mental thing than a physical thing. I&rsquo;ll get down to the weight I need to get to. I&rsquo;m on my way, and it&rsquo;s what I need to do for the job,&rdquo; he said. The father-of-two, whose wife Camilla Alves is expecting the couple&rsquo;s third child this fall, has been taking a philosophical approach to his punishing diet. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a bit of a spiritual cleanse, mental cleanse. (I&rsquo;m) drinking a lot of tea,&rdquo; he said.u00a0&ldquo;It takes a while for your body to understand that it has to feed off of itself and that you&rsquo;re not going to give it something else from the outside,&rdquo; he added. The gritty role is based on the real life story of a Dallas man named Ron Woodruff, who had contracted HIV through drug use in the &lsquo;80s.u00a0

Matthew McConaughey has steadily been shrinking in recent weeks after signing up to lose 30 pounds for an upcoming movie.

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