Matthew McConaughey has shared his suspicions that pal Woody Harrelson might be his real brother.
The Oscar winning actor, who starred with Harrelson on True Detective, revealed that they have questioned whether they have the same father.
McConaughey shared on Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast: “You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line. And that’s part of our bromance, right?
“My kids call him Uncle Woody. His kids call me Uncle Matthew. And you see pictures of us, and my family thinks a lot of pictures of him are me. His family thinks a lot of pictures of me are him.”
He continued: “In Greece a few years ago, we’re sitting around talking about how close we are and our families. And my mom is there, and she says, ‘Woody, I knew your dad.’ Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mom left after ‘knew’. It was a loaded K-N-E-W.”
The Failure To Launch star said his mother’s comment prompted him to investigate his family history, and whether she might have had a fling with Harrelson’s father.
McConaughey added: “We went on to unpack what this ‘knew’ meant and did some math and found out that [Harrelson’s] dad was on furlough at the same time that my mom and dad 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.”
The actor then admitted that he’s hesitant to take a DNA test out of fear the man, who he believed is his father, isn’t. McConaughey’s dad James passed away in 1992.
He shared: “Look, it’s a little easier for Woody to say, ‘Come on, let’s do [DNA tests],’ because what’s the skin in it for him?
“It’s a little harder for me because he’s asking me to take a chance to go, ‘Wait a minute, you’re trying to tell me my dad may not be my dad after 53 years of believing that?’ I got a little more skin in the game.”
The film star was previously estranged from his mother, Mary Kathlene McCabe, for several years.
Meanwhile, Harrelson’s father, a hitman called Charles, died in prison 2007. His mother is Diane Lou Oswald.
