Are Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson long-lost brothers?
The Hollywood stars and appearing veterans consider they could be genetically linked, with McConaughey telling Kelly Ripa that the pair are contemplating a DNA check.
Talking on Ripa’s Let’s Discuss Off Digicam podcast, McConaughey stated the 2 actors discovered from his mother that she knew Harrelson’s father, maybe romantically.
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“, 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 stated 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 photos of us and my household thinks a whole lot of photos of him are me. His household thinks a whole lot of photos of me are him.”
Woody Harrelson (L) and Matthew McConaughey seem in a nonetheless from ‘True Detective.’.
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He stated the doable hyperlink was established a number of years in the past on a visit to Greece.
“In Greece a number of years in the past, we’re sitting round speaking about how shut we’re and our households,” McConaughey stated. “And my mother is there, and she or he 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 identical time that my mother and pop have been of their second divorce. Then there’s doable 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 carried out 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 get together 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 just a little more durable for me as a result of he’s asking me to take the possibility to go, ‘Wait a minute, you’re making an attempt to inform me my dad is probably not my dad after 53 years of believing that?’ I acquired extra pores and skin within the recreation.”
McConaughey and Harrelson, 61, have shared a variety of units over time, 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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