Matthew McConaughey reveals how Woody Harrelson is likely to be his brother

Are Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson brothers?

It is a query the “True Detective” stars – and McConaughey’s mother – have apparently puzzled.

“The place I begin and the place he ends and the place he begins and I finish has at all times been like a murky line,” McConaughey, 53, informed Kelly Ripa of his tight friendship with Harrelson, 61, whereas showing on her podcast “Let’s Speak Off Digicam” Wednesday.

“And that’s a part of our bromance, proper? My children name him Uncle Woody. His children name me Uncle Matthew,” he added. “My household thinks numerous photos of him are me. His household thinks numerous photos of me are him.”

Might there be a deeper cause for the resemblance? Nicely, McConaughey teased that his mom and Harrelson’s father weren’t precisely strangers again in Texas.

“In Greece just a few years in the past, we’re sitting round speaking about how shut we’re and our households,” the actor informed Ripa. “And my mother is there, and he or she says, ‘Woody, I knew your dad’ … Everybody was conscious of the ellipses that my mother left after ‘knew.’ It was a loaded Ok-N-E-W.”

He continued: “Nicely, we went on to unpack what this ‘knew’ meant and did some math and discovered that his dad was on furlough on the similar time that my mother and pop had been of their second divorce. Then there’s potential receipts and locations out in West Texas the place there may need been a gathering or a gathering or a ‘knew’ second.”

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When Ripa requested if McConaughey and Harrelson have thought-about getting DNA checks to see in the event that they’re associated, McConaughey mentioned they have been “on the precipice” of getting one, however he is hesitated since he has extra “pores and skin within the recreation” over the outcomes than Harrelson does.

“It is a bit of simpler for (Harrelson) to say, ‘Come on, let’s do it!,’ as a result of what is the pores and skin in it for him?” he mentioned. “It is a bit of more durable for me, as a result of he is asking me to take an opportunity and go ‘Wait a minute. You are telling me that my dad is probably not my dad after 53 years of believing it?’ I’ve acquired a bit of extra pores and skin within the recreation.”

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