Matthew McConaughey said he lost 50 pounds for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ on a diet of fish, tapioca pudding, and ‘as much wine as I wanted to drink’

The “Dallas Buyers Club” actor Matthew McConaughey has shared how he lost 50 pounds for the role.

His unusual approach involved eating nothing but fish, egg whites, tapioca pudding — and “as much wine as I wanted to drink.”

“I did not torture myself. I was militant. The hardest part was making the damn choice,” McConaughey said on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which aired on October 22.

McConaughey played Ron Woodroof, a man who was diagnosed with stage 4 HIV/AIDS in the mid-1980s.