Actor MatthewMcConaughey is doubling-down on comments he made last week about "illiberals" and the current state of politics in the United States.

While appearing on "Good Morning Britain" on Tuesday to promote his memoir "Greenlights," the "True Detective" star elaborated on his previousclaimsthat his Hollywood colleagues can have "condescending" and "arrogant" attitudes when it comes to the Trump supporters and the right.

Some liberals dont see theyre being cannibalised by the illiberals. @McConaughey explains he thinks free speech and both sides of being political debate are illegitimatised by the other side.@piersmorgan | @susannareid100 pic.twitter.com/fY5o4THqcs

"You need liberals. What I dont think we need is the illiberals," McConaugheytold hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid while appearing on theBritish news program. "What I dont think that some liberals see is that theyre often being cannibalized by the illiberals."

He continued, stating that both sides can be problematic and tend to cancel each other out.

"There are extremes on both sides that I think are unfair, that I dont think are the right place to be. The extreme left and the extreme right completely illegitimize the other side, the liberal and conservative side, which we need in certain places," he said. "The two extremes illegitimize those two sides. Or they exaggerate that sides stance into an irrational state that makes no sense and thats not fair when either side does that."

The Oscar-winning actor briefly mentioned "cancel culture," and how it could possiblyinfluencefree speech in the future.

"Where the waterline is going to land on this freedom of speech and what we allow and what we dont and where this cancel culture goes, where that waterline lands is a very interesting place that we are engaged in right now as a society that were trying to figure out because we havent found the right spot."

AlthoughMcConaughey previously daredAmericans to get "aggressively centric," he noted that to some degree, conflict is a necessary evil.

"Youve got to have confrontation to have unity," he said, according to Deadline. "Thats when a democracy works really well."

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Matthew McConaughey: 'The extreme left and the extreme right completely illegitimize the other side' | TheHill - The Hill