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 check.
Talking on Ripa’s Let’s Speak Off Digicam podcast, McConaughey mentioned the 2 actors discovered from his mother that she knew Harrelson’s father, maybe romantically.
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“You understand, the place I begin and the place he ends, and the place he begins and I finish, has all the time been like a murky line,” the 53-year-old McConaughey mentioned earlier this week.
“And that’s a part of our bromance, proper? My children name him Uncle Woody. His children name me Uncle Matthew. And also you see footage of us and my household thinks plenty of footage of him are me. His household thinks plenty of footage of me are him.”
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Woody Harrelson (L) and Matthew McConaughey seem in a nonetheless from ‘True Detective.’.
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He mentioned the potential hyperlink was established a couple of years in the past on a visit to Greece.
“In Greece a couple of years in the past, we’re sitting round speaking about how shut we’re and our households,” McConaughey mentioned. “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 Okay-N-E-W.”
“We went on to unpack what this ‘knew’ meant and did some math and came upon that (Harrelson’s) dad was on furlough on the similar time that my mother and pop have been of their second divorce. 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.”
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Nevertheless, regardless of being “on the precipice” of doing a DNA check to confirm the connection, the Oscar winner says he’s been extra reluctant to have one finished as he’s involved about studying that his dad may not be his organic father “after 53 years of believing that.”
“It’s a little bit 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 bit tougher for me as a result of he’s asking me to take the possibility to go, ‘Wait a minute, you’re attempting to inform me my dad will not be my dad after 53 years of believing that?’ I acquired extra pores and skin within the recreation.”
McConaughey and Harrelson, 61, have shared quite a few 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’re set to reunite for an AppleTV+ comedy, Brother From One other Mom, the place they are going to play fictionalized variations of themselves residing collectively on a ranch in Texas.
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