According to\u00a0McConaughey, the rumor that the two longtime friends and Austin-based actors might be related all started with his mother.<\/p>\n
The two actors\u2019 decades-long friendship is now the inspiration for \u201cBrothers,\u201d<\/a> an upcoming Apple TV+ comedy series loosely based on their relationship. The eight-episode series, which was filmed in Austin<\/a>, will premiere Sept. 23.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s true. But, yeah, I might need to,\u201d\u00a0McConaughey told Fallon.<\/p>\n The speculation dates back to a family gathering, when McConaughey\u2019s mother seemed to add fuel to the fire.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, my mom started it,\u201d\u00a0McConaughey said.<\/p>\n He explained that while the story was being discussed, his mother suddenly took a sip of her drink and said, \u201cOh, Woody\u2026 I knew\u2026 your father.\u201d<\/p>\n While McConaughey may not be convinced that he and Harrelson share a father, the rumor appears to have become part of their shared mythology.<\/p>\n \u201cWoody\u2019s having such a good time believing it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo many other people actually believe it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to\u00a0McConaughey, the rumor that the two longtime friends and Austin-based actors might be related all started with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1223,6980,15674,2633,2186,27],"class_list":["post-434145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-texas","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-entertainment-news","tag-celebrity","tag-television","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}