Matthew McConaughey’s mum provides extra gas to risk Woody Harrelson is his brother

Matthew McConaughey’s mum as soon as had a loopy tackle the entire Woody Harrelson is his brother factor.

The 2 celebrated actors have been pals since they first met professionally on the set of EDtv, a 1999 comedy movie directed by Ron Howard.

It was a satirical take a look at early actuality TV collection – means earlier than the likes of Massive Brother and Protecting Up With the Kardashians took over.

Harrelson starred as Ray Pekurny, the older brother of McConaughey’s character Ed Pekurny.

The pair additionally featured in non-related roles in season certainly one of an anthology collection with a brand new forged each season referred to as True Detective in 2014.

Earlier this 12 months, nevertheless, Deadline reported that an upcoming Apple TV+ comedy collection tentatively titled Brothers is within the works.

It is apparently going to be a comedy loosely impressed by their real-life friendship and the continued joke that they may really be organic brothers.

However it seems the entire ‘brother principle’ occurred a couple of years in the past with their households turning into so shut that McConaughey stated ‘my children name him Uncle Woody. His children name me Uncle Matthew’.

And so the Interstellar actor revealed on the Let’s Speak Off Digicam with Kelly Ripa podcast in 2023 that his mum dropped a little bit of a bombshell once they have been on vacation collectively.

“In Greece a couple of years in the past, we’re sitting round speaking about how shut we’re and our households,” he stated.

“And my mother is there, and he or she says, ‘Woody, I knew your dad’. Everybody was conscious of the ellipses that my mother left after ‘knew’.

“It was a loaded Ok-N-E-W.”

He added: “And that’s a part of our bromance, proper? My children name him Uncle Woody. His children name me Uncle Matthew and many others and many others.

“And also you see photos of us and my household thinks lots of photos of him are me. His household thinks lots of photos of me are him.”

McConaughey stated he discovered that Harrelson’s dad had been on furlough on the identical time that McConaughey’s mum and pa have been of their second divorce (they received married 3 times).

The Now You See Me actor stated: “The 12 months of [McConaughey’s] delivery, 9 months earlier than, she was on a sabbatical from her relationship together with his supposed father, Jim.”

“Then there’s potential receipts and locations out in West Texas the place there may need been a gathering, or a gathering, or a ‘knew’ second,” McConaughey added.

The pair have beforehand spoken about doing DNA exams however for one cause or one other have not gone by way of with one.

Harrelson’s father, Charles Voyde Harrelson, was shockingly a convicted contract killer, who murdered US District Choose John H. Wooden Jr in 1979 – stated to be first assassination of a federal decide in Twentieth-century America.

Harrelson acquired two life sentences and remained in jail till his dying in 2007.

Beforehand talking to The Guardian, the actor stated he was ’11 or 12′ when he heard on the radio that his dad was on trial for the homicide.

“I used to be within the automobile ready for a woman who was selecting me up from faculty, serving to my mum, and anyway I used to be listening to the radio and it was speaking about Charles V Harrelson and his trial for homicide and blah blah blah blah and I’m sitting there pondering there can’t be one other Charles V Harrelson,” he stated.

“I imply, that’s my dad! It was a wild realisation. Then the lady received within the automobile and noticed my face and realised one thing was up. She was a really variety girl.”