Matthew McConaughey plays homophobic, hard-partying Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club.
It's unclear what hard-partying Texan cowboy Ron Woodroof is more upset about when he is diagnosed with HIV - the doctor's prognosis that he has only 30 days to live or the revelation he has contracted the "gay disease".
After declaring he is straight and menacing the doctor who breaks
the news, he swaggers out the the hospital proclaiming "nothing can kill Ron Woodroof in 30 days".
This scene from the Dallas Buyers Club tells you all you need to know about Woodroof. He is stridently homophobic, he bristles with self-belief and he hates authority.
Matthew McConaughey, who lost 18kg to play Woodroof, is almost unrecognisable in the role. Even at the start of the film, before Woodroof contracts the disease during a fling with two rodeo groupies, he is disturbingly thin. As the film progresses his face becomes pale and gaunt and dark circles line his eyes.
It's clear something is seriously wrong, but Woodroof is too caught up in his hard-partying lifestyle of booze and drugs to notice it.
