The actors Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, friends in life and co-stars of the series true detectiveThey could be half siblings. This is the crazy rumor released last week by Matthew McConaughey.
According to the Oscar-winning actor, his mother, Mary McCabe, revealed to him that she had known Woody Harrelson’s father, hitman Charles Harrelson, intimately in the 1960s. This revelation prompted him to investigate his past.
“I met…your father”
On this week’s show The Late Show with Stephen ColbertWoody Harrelson confirmed the anecdote that inspired the two actors to create a new comedy series for Apple TV+. Brother from another mother.
“We were in Greece, watching the American team in the soccer World Cup. He was talking about regrets and I said, ‘It’s strange that my father didn’t regret anything.’
“I’ve known McConaughey’s mother for a long time and she’s said to me, ‘I knew…your father.’ I found that break up very disturbing, or at least very interesting.”
“He feels like he has lost a father”
According to the US media, the story is plausible. McConaughey was born on November 4, 1969, eight years after Woody Harrelson and nine months after Charles Harrelson, Woody’s father, was released from prison. McConaughey’s parents were then in the midst of a divorce.
“We’d like to do a DNA test,” said Woody Harrelson. Matthew McConaughey still doubts: “The result will have a lot more impact for him than for me. He has the impression of losing a father. I tell him that he would gain a different father and a brother!”.
“It’s easier for Woody to say we have to do it, because he’s not risking anything,” McConaughey said on the podcast last week. Let’s talk off camera. “He tells me that my father may not be my father after 53 years… It’s hard!”
Source: BFM TV
