Port Douglas
Resort town on the coast of far north Queensland, Australia. In Greenlights it is where Matthew McConaughey and Camila first live together, during the Fool’s Gold shoot.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey | setting | Filming Fool’s Gold, he invites Camila to share a rented beach house; she asks for her own room, bathroom and key. |
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Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey (2020)
Source: Original · Readwise highlight
I wanted her to come to Australia for the three months I was filming, live with me in the two-bedroom beach house in Port Douglas I’d be renting.
- Role: setting
- In the book: About a year into dating, he takes a job on Fool’s Gold in Australia and, unlike before, asks Camila to come and live with him in a rented two-bedroom beach house in Port Douglas for the three months of filming. She agrees on condition of her own bedroom, bathroom and key, which she rarely uses. Over New Year’s they take a six-day surf trip to Papua New Guinea.
- Why it matters: Their first time living together; the book uses the arrangement to make a point about independence within a relationship.