Magic Mike abs, we barely knew ye. Matthew McConaughey, star of this summer’s hit stripper comedy, has gone from eating five protein-packed meals a day (which produced the glory of this photo) to consuming little more than “a lot of tea” to lose 30 pounds and look the part of an AIDS-infected man for an upcoming role in The Dallas Buyer’s Club. The film tells the true story of a man seeking out experimental HIV drugs in the mid-1980s, explaining why McConaughey looks, well, sickly. “I should not look healthy by the time I’m doing this,” he told Larry King Now in July, when he had lost half of the 30 pounds. “It’s a bit of a spiritual cleanse, mental cleanse,” he added. “[I’m] drinking a lot of tea ... It takes a while for your body to understand that it has to feed off of itself and that you’re not going to give it something else from the outside.”
