The actors share a friendship relationship of several decades and shared several work projects
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson announced in March that they will meet on screen again after “EDtv” and “True Detective” in a new comedy AppleTV+ from the creator david westread. The 10-episode series will feature the actors as fictionalized versions of themselves as they reunite their families under one roof on a Texas ranch. McConaughey recently announced on the podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera” of Kelly Ripa that the series is titled “Brother From Another Mother”.
While the series title evokes McConaughey and Harrelson’s decades-long real-life friendship, McConaughey let it slip to Ripa that he actually questions whether Harrelson is related to him. It all stems from the revelation that McConaughey’s mother knew Harrelson’s father, perhaps intimately.
“In Greece a few years ago, we were sitting around talking about how close we are and our families,” McConaughey continued. “And my mom is there and she says: ‘Woody you know, I met your dad’. Everyone was aware of the ellipsis my mom left after ‘you know’. It was a loaded know”.
The revelation led McConaughey to investigate his family history. He said: “We went on to explain what this ‘you know’ meant and did some calculations and found that the father [de Harrelson] I was on leave at the same time my mother and father were going through their second divorce. Then there are the possible receipts and places in West Texas where there might have been a meeting, meeting or “intimate” moment.
The actors have not yet decided to take a DNA test to obtain evidence about a possible family connection between them.
“Look, it’s a little bit easier for Woody to say, ‘Come on, let’s do [pruebas de ADN]’, because what is skin to him?” McConaughey said. “It’s a little bit more difficult for me because he’s asking me to risk saying, ‘Wait a minute, are you trying to tell me that my dad may not be my dad after 53 years of believing that?‘ I have a little more skin in the game.”
Source: Ambito
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