Fiction can beat reality, and if you don’t believe us, just ask Matthew McConaughey, who is increasingly convinced that his “brotherhood” with Woody Harrelson might be more real than they’ll let on in a future comedy project. After being part of productions such as EDtv and True Detective, a new comedy series will bring the pair back together, though now from Apple TV+ and creator David West Read, according to Variety.
It’s a 10-episode project that will show fictionalized versions of the celebrities, who will in turn reunite their families under one roof on a Texas ranch; sort of like a combination of the Kardashian reality show and a Friends-style sitcom. The series, as McConaughey commented on the podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera, also hosted by actress Kelly Ripa, will be called Brother From Another Mother, and although it is a title that could evoke the strong friendship between the two stars, it also caused some doubts in the star of Interstellar.
And that’s because this heartfelt love story of an odd “couple” revolving around the bond between the two celebrities, as the project’s official description reads, might no longer be fiction because of McConaughey’s hunch that Harrelson might be his real half-brother.
What if Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson Are Brothers in Real Life?
The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days? star indicated in his interview with Ripa that he feels Harrelson could indeed be related to him after his mother revealed that she had known the Hunger Games star’s dad quite intimately.
“You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, it’s always been a very 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 of him. […] In Greece, a few years ago, we were sitting around talking about how close we are and our families. And my mom is there and says, ‘Woody, I met your dad.’ Everyone was aware of the ellipses my mom left after ‘I met.’ It was a very loaded ‘M-E-T,'” the actor said.
And just that talk stuck in the minds of both of them so much that they decided to take matters into their own hands and start researching their family history, to the extent that they’ve even considered getting a DNA test, but haven’t quite opted for it yet.
“We kept trying to come up with an explanation for what this ‘I met’ meant and did some calculations and found out that (Harrelson’s) dad was on leave at the same time my mom and dad were going through their second divorce. Then there are the possible receipts and places in West Texas where there might have been a meeting, a rendezvous.”
“And look, it’s a little easier for Woody to say, ‘Come on, let’s do it (a DNA test),’ because what is skin to him? But it’s a little harder for me because he’s asking me to risk saying, ‘Wait a minute, are you trying to tell me that my dad might not be my dad after 53 years of believing that?” he added.
At the moment it is not known if this whole situation could negatively influence the production of his TV show, but it is a fact that something about it will appear in the production.
Story written in Spanish by Alejandro Vizzuet in Cultura Colectiva
