Woody Harrelson has confirmed the news during a TV show that he and co-star and friend Matthew McConaughey might actually be biological brothers after the latter’s recent revelation and has been pushing Matthew to get a DNA test. However, the latter is not very keen on it.
Talking about the startling news, Woody said, “Well, I’ll just say there is some veracity to that thought because we talked to Ma’ Mac, Matthew’s legitimate mother, and she let us know one time…I mean, this is crazy. We were in Greece watching the U.S. team win the World Cup and I don’t know, I mentioned something about regrets. And I said, ‘You know, it’s odd that my father has no regrets.’ And I have known Ma’ Mac a long time, and she goes, ‘I knew… your father.’ And it was the ellipses I found a little troubling, or interesting. ‘I knew your father.’ The year of (Matthew’s) birth, nine months before, she was on a sabbatical from her relationship with his supposed father, Jim.”
For the first time, @WoodyHarrelson addresses the rumor that he could be Matthew @McConaughey's half-brother. #Colbert pic.twitter.com/aHjyEaKDJW
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Matthew said in his version of the story, “(Woody’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.”
Woody spoke about getting a DNA test to find out once and for all if him and Matthew are related and said, “We want to go for a (DNA) test, but for him, it’s a much more big deal. I mean he feels like he is losing a father. But I’m like, no, you’re gaining a different father and a brother.”
Matthew had said earlier this month, “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 two actors are longtime friends and co-starred on EDtv and True Detective. They are currently planning an onscreen reunion with the Apple TV+ comedy series Brother From Another Mother, in which they’ll star as fictionalized versions of themselves as they move their families together under one room on a Texas ranch.
(Source: The Late Show With Stephen Colbert)
