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13 Apr 2023, 14:00
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Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey has dropped quite the bombshell about his potential familial connection to another big-screen name, Woody Harrelson.
The True Detective co-stars are joining forces once again for upcoming Apple TV+ comedy series Brother From Another Mother, but that title might hit a little bit closer to home than first thought.
While the internet has always had fun with how similar the two actors look, Matthew took it one step further while on Kelly Ripa’s podcast, Let’s Talk Off Camera.
He explained their closeness, telling the host: “You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line. And that’s part of our bromance, right?
“My kids call him Uncle Woody. His kids call me Uncle Matthew. And you see pictures of us and my family thinks a lot of pictures of him are me. His family thinks a lot of pictures of me are him.”
It turns out that Matthew’s mum had spent some time with Woody’s father, as he added: “In Greece a few years ago, we’re sitting around talking about how close we are and our families. And my mom is there, and she says, ‘Woody, I knew your dad.’ Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mom left after ‘knew’. It was a loaded K-N-E-W.”
That rather hinting remark caused the Interstellar star to look into the potential of a romance between his mother and Woody’s dad, and it turned out that Matthew’s mum was in the midst of her divorce from his father while Woody’s parent was “on furlough.”
The acting duo haven’t sought out DNA tests just yet as the implications for both parties are rather complicated.
Matthew added: “Look, it’s a little easier for Woody to say, ‘Come on, let’s do [DNA tests],’ because what’s the skin in it for him?.
“It’s a little harder for me because he’s asking me to take a chance to go, ‘Wait a minute, you’re trying to tell me my dad may not be my dad after 53 years of believing that?’ I got a little more skin in the game.”
The close bond between Matthew and Woody began after first working together in 1999’s EDtv, and then again in 2008’s Surfer, Dude. They starred together in the first series of True Detective, and will once again share the screen in Brother From Another Mother, expected out on Apple TV+ soon.
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