{"id":119323,"date":"2025-09-06T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119323\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:29:10","slug":"matthew-mcconaugheys-son-levi-following-his-footsteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119323\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey\u2019s Son Levi Following His Footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cHe came back four times asking me, \u2018Can I read for it?\u201d Matthew recalled, adding that he soon after pitched the idea to the casting director. \u201cThey got him on camera, read for it and I said \u2018Wow, he can hold the frame, he\u2019s got the instinct for it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">So, they decided to put the decision in the hands of director Paul Greengrass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cThey send it to the director and they say, \u2018If we do that, let\u2019s take the name off\u2014my last name off\u2014to send to the director,\u2019\u201d Matthew explained. \u201cAnd Paul looks at it and says, \u2018That\u2019s the kid!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">As for how Levi reacted to landing his debut role in the intense wildfire drama? Well, he was completely taken by surprise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">\u00a0\u201cI knew it was a good audition and I was like, \u2018OK. This is good,\u2019\u201d he told E! \u201cBut I did not think I was going to get the part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe came back four times asking me, \u2018Can I read for it?\u201d Matthew recalled, adding that he soon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-119323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}