Watch young Matthew McConaughey audition for iconic 'Dazed and Confused' role

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- While Matthew McConaughey has a new project seemingly every month since the so-called "McConaissance," 20 years ago he was an unknown face auditioning for up-and-coming alternative filmmaker Richard Linklater.

Now, thanks to a Criterion Collection release of Linklater's classic 1976 period piece Dazed and Confused, fans can check out young McConaughey craft that would become arguably his most iconic role.

Fans hoping to see McConaughey drop the line that has since become his self-embraced catchphrase "All right, all right, all right" for the very first time are out of luck -- McConaughey improvised that line on set shortly before shooting it, he told Newsweek in 2013.