Are Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson long-lost brothers?
The Hollywood stars and appearing veterans imagine they may be genetically linked, with McConaughey telling Kelly Ripa that the pair are contemplating a DNA take a look at.
Speaking on Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast, McConaughey stated the 2 actors discovered from his mother that she knew Harrelson’s father, maybe romantically.
“You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line,” the 53-year-old McConaughey stated earlier this week.
“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.”
Woody Harrelson (L) and Matthew McConaughey seem in a nonetheless from ‘True Detective.’.
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He stated the attainable hyperlink was established a couple of years in the past on a visit to Greece.
“In Greece a few years ago, we’re sitting around talking about how close we are and our families,” McConaughey stated. “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.”
“We went on to unpack what this ‘knew’ meant and did some math and found out that (Harrelson’s) dad was on furlough at the same time that my mom and dad were in their second divorce. Then there’s possible receipts and places out in West Texas where there might have been a gathering, or a meeting, or a ‘knew’ moment.”
However, regardless of being “on the precipice” of doing a DNA take a look at to confirm the connection, the Oscar winner says he’s been extra reluctant to have one completed as he’s involved about studying that his dad won’t be his organic father “after 53 years of believing that.”
“It’s just a little simpler for Woods (Harrelson) to say, ‘Come on let’s do it!’ What’s the pores and skin in it for him?
Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey attend the launch celebration of recent bar The Parrot at The Waldorf Hilton hosted by Idris Elba on Nov. 8, 2018 in London, England.
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“It’s a little harder for me because he’s asking me to take the 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 more skin in the game.”
McConaughey and Harrelson, 61, have shared a lot of units through the years, appearing collectively within the movies Welcome to Hollywood, EDtv and Surfer, Dude, in addition to the tv collection True Detective. They are set to reunite for an AppleTV+ comedy, Brother From Another Mother, the place they’ll play fictionalized variations of themselves residing collectively on a ranch in Texas.
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