Matthew McConaughey reveals that Woody Harrelson could be his brother – Corriere.it

It all started a few years ago, during one of the many holidays that Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson (aka Woodrow Tracy Harrelson) went on together. That time the two actors, with their respective families, were in Greece and McConaughey’s mother was also present, who let it slip that she had met Harrelson’s father. Not exactly a Platonic acquaintance, as she let the woman intuit. From that moment on, the two stars began to think that there could also be a blood bond between them, as well as a lifelong friendship.

To tell it all it was McConaughey himself on Kelly Ripa’s “Let’s talk off camera” podcast. “A few years ago, in Greece, we sat talking about how close we feel and our families. My mom was there and she said, “Woody, I knew your dad.” And we were all immediately aware of the ellipses left by my mother after that “I knew.” He was a heavy “I knew”. We started thinking, we did some calculations and we found out that his father had been released from prison (Charles Harrelson was a professional killer and died in prison in 2007, ed) at the same time my mother and father were on their second divorce. Then there are the receipts and possible places in Texas where they might have met.’

Whether it’s mere coincidences or something more the DNA test could establish it, which however McConaughey is rather reluctant to do, unlike his friend, because he is frightened by the result he could obtain. That is, discovering at the age of 53 “that my father is not my father”. After «EDtv» and «True Detective», the two actors will act together again in the Apple TV series «Brother from Another Mother», where they coincidentally play two brothers. «Where I start, he ends and where he begins, I end – McConaughey said again speaking of the special bond with his friend -. It’s always been a fine line. It’s part of our bromance. My kids call him Uncle Woody, his kids call me Uncle Matthew. And if you see our photos, you think that in some it’s me and instead it’s him and vice versa”.