Matthew McConaughey discovers co-star Woody Harrelson could be his brother

The Hollywood duo, who notably shared the display on the debut season of acclaimed crime drama True Detective on Binge, have additionally loved a decades-long friendship off-screen – a bromance they’ve come to grasp may very well be rooted in blood.

McConaughey, 53, and Harrelson, 61, who first labored collectively on the 1999 rom-com EDtv, and are set to reunite once more for an upcoming Apple TV+ comedy collection, Brother From Another Mother.

The title triggered a confession from McConaughey on the Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa podcast, wherein he revealed the pair have found they may truly share the identical father.

“You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line,” McConaughey started.

He continued: “In Greece a few years ago, we’re sitting around talking about how close we are and our families,” McConaughey mentioned. “And my mum [Mary Kathlene McCabe] is there, and she says, ‘Woody, I knew your dad’ … Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mum left after ‘knew.’ It was a loaded ‘knew’.

“We went on to unpack what this ‘knew’ meant and did some math and found out that [Harrelson’s] dad [Charles Harrelson] was on furlough at the same time that my mum and dad [James Donald McConaughey] 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.”

While they’re but to get DNA assessments, McConaughey mentioned they’re “on the precipice” of getting them executed.

However, McConaughey mentioned he was reluctant as a result of he’s spent “53 years believing” his dad James was his organic father.

James died in 1992. McConaughey revealed in his 2020 memoir Greenlights that his dad died from a coronary heart assault whereas having intercourse together with his mom, Mary, whom he had an on-again, off-again relationship with.

Meanwhile, Harrelson’s dad Charles was a infamous US hit man and organised crime determine who was convicted of the 1979 assassination of federal decide John H. Wood Jr, wherein he was sentenced to 2 life phrases from 1982.

According to Harrelson, his father had left their household in 1968, leaving Harrelson’s mom Diane to lift their three sons solo. McConaughey was born in 1969.

Charles died aged 69 in jail in 2007 after having a coronary heart assault in his cell.