{"id":620125,"date":"2026-09-18T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620125\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:40:09","slug":"why-matthew-mcconaughey-and-woody-harrelson-havent-taken-a-dna-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620125\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson Haven’t Taken a DNA Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tYou may know the story \u2014 Matthew McConaughey<\/a>\u2018s mother once told him that she knew Woody Harrelson<\/a>\u2018s father right around the time McConaughey was conceived, creating a possible scenario where the two may be half-brothers<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe rumor is now being taken to the next level with Brothers, an Apple TV comedy where McConaughey and Harrelson play versions of themselves who uncover a family secret that they may be related. There is, of course, an actual way that the two could find out the truth, as The Hollywood Reporter asked at the show\u2019s L.A. premiere on Thursday if they would ever take a DNA test. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to but he refuses,\u201d Harrelson explained, as McConaughey replied, \u201cI\u2019ll probably come around to it\u201d but added, \u201cIf it\u2019s true, I got a lot to unpack. If it\u2019s not true, he\u2019s not gonna be near as fun to hang out with.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHarrelson admitted, \u201cI\u2019m going to be really sad for a while if it\u2019s not true,\u201d which seems to be McConaughey\u2019s main deterrent to the test, as the Interstellar star joked, \u201cLet\u2019s just keep floating this idea, because I don\u2019t want him being all upset.\u201d Harrelson was quick to reply, \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to be a problem because I think we\u2019re brothers;\u201d McConaughey confirmed, \u201cHe\u2019s fully convinced, I\u2019m not. There we go.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe two stars \u2014 who previously shared the screen on season one of True Detective<\/a> \u2014 also mused on playing themselves on camera for the first time. McConaughey said it was \u201cMore of an adjustment than I expected\u201d and Harrelson explained it was \u201cmuch harder than you would think, really. I was doing some weird, giggly, stupid performance and then I saw it and I was like \u2018Oh my god, I hope we do reshoots.\u2019 We did, so that was good,\u201d teasing he told the director, \u201cI don\u2019t like that me, can we do it again?\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tLee Eisenberg, who was behind Jury Duty and Lessons in Chemistry, serves as showrunner for the series, which sees Holland Taylor playing McConaughey\u2019s mother and the pair\u2019s wives and children also recast. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTheir families would be there on the set, just hanging out at Video Village, watching versions of themselves. The whole thing was very surreal,\u201d Eisenberg recalled, while also emphasizing that \u201cI never wanted this to feel like a documentary\u201d and the actors took some liberties to play up their personas. As for if he believes the two are actually brothers after working on the show, Eisenberg admitted, \u201cI go back and forth. When you see the pictures of the two of them [from growing up] side-by-side, it feels a little uncanny.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBrothers starts streaming Sept. 23 on Apple TV. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may know the story \u2014 Matthew McConaughey\u2018s mother once told him that she knew Woody Harrelson\u2018s father…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[21176,458,146,2323,85,46,19654,70809],"class_list":["post-620125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-brothers","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-woody-harrelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}