Matt McConaughey?

[DeusxMac]

sekker wrote:
As someone who lived through the birth of the modern celebrity politician movement (Jesse Ventura as Governor of Minnesota)...

I'd propose that Reagan was the birth of "modern" celebrity politician movement. But before Reagan there were other actors:

Helen Gahagan Douglas - Member U.S. House of Representatives, January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1951
An American actress and politician

John Davis Lodge - Governor of Connecticut, January 3, 1951 – January 5, 1955
An American movie actor, lawyer, politician, and diplomat.

George Murphy - United States Senator from California, January 1, 1965 – January 2, 1971
Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952.

And to lesser degrees, many others - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...oliticians

Also, sports stars who went into politics goes way back, long before Ventura. Just a few predating Ventura:
- Bill Bradley
- Jim Bunning
- Jack Kemp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...oliticians