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Matthew McConaughey Says Woody Harrelson Could Be His ACTUAL Brother
Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey may privation to telephone successful a existent detective for this one.
After McConaughey suggested helium and Harrelson could beryllium fractional brothers, the Cheers alum weighed successful connected the possibility.
"Well, I'll conscionable accidental determination is immoderate veracity to that thought," Harrelson, 61, said connected the April 18 occurrence of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, "because we talked to Ma Mac, Matthew's morganatic mother, and she fto america cognize 1 time—it's crazy, we were successful Greece. We were watching the U.S. squad triumph the World Cup, and I don't cognize I mentioned thing astir regrets. And I said, ‘You know, it's unusual that my begetter has nary regrets.' And I've known Ma Mac a agelong time, and she goes, ‘I knew your father.'"
As helium explained, it was how McConaughey's parent Mary McCabe said it that caught his attention.
"It was the ellipses I recovered a small troubling oregon interesting," Harrelson continued. "'I knew your father.'"
The Triangle of Sadness prima besides indicated the timing would marque sense.
"The twelvemonth of his birth, 9 months before," helium said, "she was connected a sabbatical from her narration with his expected begetter Jim."
And Harrelson noted the actors privation to further research whether they're related.
"The happening is we privation to spell and test," helium shared. "But for him, it's a overmuch much large deal. I mean, helium feels similar he's losing a father. But I'm like, nary you're gaining a antithetic begetter and a brother."
McConaughey—who appeared alongside Harrelson successful the amusement True Detective—first brought up the imaginable household ties past week.
"In Greece a fewer years ago, we're sitting astir talking astir however adjacent we are and our families and etcetera and my ma is there. And she says, ‘Woody, I knew your dad,'" the Oscar winner, 53, said connected the April 12 episode of Kelly Ripa's podcast Let's Talk Off Camera. "Everyone was alert of the ellipses that my ma near aft 'knew.' It was a loaded K-N-E-W."
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And helium besides noted the timeline would adhd up.
"We went connected to unpack this what 'knew' meant and did immoderate mathematics and recovered retired that his dada was connected furlough astatine the aforesaid clip that my ma and dada were successful their 2nd divorce," McConaughey added. "Then there's imaginable receipts and places retired successful West Texas wherever determination mightiness person been a gathering, oregon a gathering oregon a 'knew' moment."
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