The two actors, best friends in life and heroes of the series True Detectivehave suggested in several interviews that they might be related.
Actors Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, friends in life and costars of the series True Detective, could be half-brothers. This is the crazy rumor launched 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 knew…your father”
On the show this week The Late Show with Stephen ColbertWoody Harrelson confirmed the anecdote, which 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 at the soccer World Cup. I was talking about regrets, and I was like, ‘It’s strange that my father didn’t have any regrets.’
“I’ve known McConaughey’s mom for a long time and she’s like, ‘I knew…your dad.’ I found that break very disturbing, or at least very interesting.”
“He feels like he’s lost a father”
According to 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 would like to do a DNA test,” said Woody Harrelson. Matthew McConaughey still hesitates: “The result will have much 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 last week. in the podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera. “It’s telling me that my father may not be my father after 53 years… It’s hard!”
