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"He&amp;apos;s half the man he used to be.\r\nMatthew McConaughey looked like a skeletal shadow of himself jogging outside a gym in Austin, Tex. on Friday.  In several layers of workout clothes, the actor, 42, looked alarmingly gaunt and haggard -- even more than than he did just five days earlier on a stroll with his mother, Mary.\r\n\r\nAs previously reported, the usually muscular star&amp;apos;s body transformation is all for an important new film role in The Dallas Buyer&amp;apos;s Club, which tells the real-life story of Ron Woodruff, a drug addict in 1980s-era Texas who contracts HIV, and became one of the first AIDS activitists.\r\n&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m playing a guy who was sick and would have loved to have been healthier but wasn&amp;apos;t. For me, it&amp;apos;s more of a mental thing than a physical thing,&amp;quot; McConaughey told Us in August of playing Woodruff, who launched one of the first-ever AIDS support groups.\r\n\r\nEating &amp;quot;small amounts&amp;quot; of high-protein, low-carb food, the star told Us &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ll get down to the weight I need to get to. I&amp;apos;m on my way, and it&amp;apos;s what I need to do for the job.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nStill, despite the star&amp;apos;s commitment to his craft -- he&amp;apos;s lost about 30 pounds -- a recent online poll at Us Weekly suggested that most fans think he&amp;apos;s gone too far: With 90 percent of nearly 18,000 votes expressing concern for McConaughey. Tell Us: Do you think he&amp;apos;s gone too far?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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