Malibu, California
Beach city on the coast west of Los Angeles. In Greenlights it is where Matthew McConaughey lands in Hollywood, sleeping on producer Don Phillips’s couch.
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| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey | journey waypoint | He ends the 24-hour drive from Austin at Don Phillips’s beach house and makes it his base for months. |
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Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey (2020)
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At 10:36 p.m., I arrived at Don Phillips’s house on the beach in Malibu. I rang the bell.
- Role: journey waypoint / setting
- In the book: After driving from Austin with a loaded U-Haul, he arrives late at night at the beach house of Don Phillips, the producer he met at a bar in Austin, who opens the door naked with “Welcome to Hollywood.” He sleeps on the couch for months. After a month riding motorcycles through Europe he heads “back to Malibu” before getting an agent.
- Why it matters: Malibu is his first foothold in Los Angeles; the stay sets up the agent meeting and the first studio jobs.