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Matthew wasn't planning on becoming an actor. Initially, he attended Western Kentucky University in the hopes of becoming a teacher. As he explained to Daily Actor during a November 2019 interview, he had already started his master's degree in teaching before he caught the acting bug. "I kind of just fell upon this play that I fell in love with at the time and just kind of changed gears entirely," he said. "It was called The Laramie Project. And so I read that play and that's when I was like, 'Oh, I like the idea of actually performing and acting for a career.'" Rather than finishing grad school, Matthew decided to enroll at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in LA.

Back in 2009, Matthew appeared in a commercial for Folgers Coffee alongside actress Catherine Combs (who played his sister), and it was one of his first big projects. Of course, he never expected the commercial to develop a fan following due to its weirdly romantic dynamic between the two siblings. "I thought it was great at the time," Matthew told Vanity Fair during a December 2015 interview. "For me, booking a job like this, it was huge, but I had no idea what to expect from it. I definitely didn't expect it to kind of blow up on me, ending up the way that it did, for sure." The commercial even inspired comedy sketches from big names like Daniel Tosh and Chelsea Handler.