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Matthew McConaughey, 54, and his wife Camila Alves, 41, fled Hollywood and moved to Texas amid a family crisis, they revealed in a new Southern Living Feature published Wednesday.
They initially made the decision in 2014, and Alves — who met McConaughey at a West Hollywood nightclub in 2006 and married him in 2012 — opened up more about it.
“We lived a happy life in Malibu,” she said.
“We had a beautiful house that we built together and put a lot of love and care into. We raised our children there. I grew everything in the yard. I had bees that made honey.
The couple has three children: Levi, 15 years old, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11.
According to the outlet, although they had roots in California, they moved to Austin amid a family crisis involving McConaughey's mother and two brothers, who needed their help.
Matthew's mother, Mary Kathleen “Kay” McConaughey, and his father, James, were divorced twice and remarried three times. James died while Matthew was filming his 1993 cult hit, “Dazed and Confused.”
“No one even thought about (taking action) in our family,” Kay said. on “Today” in 2019. “We were all athletes. (Matthew) wanted to become a lawyer, until (casting director) Don Phillips saw him at a bar. He said, “I need someone to play Wooderson in this movie, 'Dazed and Confused.' And Matthew said, “Sure, I will.” »
Matthew's two brothers are Rooster, 69, and Pat, 62, who was adopted.
McConaughey's friend and “True Detective” co-star Woody Harrelson also said previously that he could be Matthew's brother.
During an appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” the “How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days” star opened up about a possible romance. his mother, Kayhad with Harrelson's father, Charles, at the time his parents were going through a divorce.
Harrelson added: “I've known Ma' Mac (Matthew's mother) for a long time, and she says, 'I knew… your father.' And it's the ellipses that I found a little disturbing or interesting. 'I knew your father.' Harrelson added that his break was “filled with innuendo.”
After McConaughey and Alves temporarily moved to Texas in 2014 amid the unspecified crisis with McConaughey's mother and brothers, Alves told Southern Living that she noticed how “peaceful” and “energetic” McConaughey was » in his home state.
“You want to move here, don’t you?” » she remembers asking him.
He laughed in response and said, “Let’s do it.” »
After moving their family, sports became more of a part of their children's lives, as did church.
“Ritual!” » McConaughey said. “The ritual has returned, whether it's Sunday church, sports, a family dinner every night, or staying up after that telling stories in the kitchen, sitting on the island serving drinks and snacks while telling them all in a different way than we've told them before.
Another reason for moving to the Lone Star State is that McConaughey said he believes that being “full, shaking hands with the place where you were conceived,” means being closer to your ” gasoline,” he said.
He was born in 1969 near Fort Davis, Texas.
“Time has slowed down,” he muses about life in Texas. “The biological clock was accurate. And this is partly ritual; Part of it is simply the distance between places and the way people move. But it is also hospitality, courtesy, common sense, the absence of drama.
Other celebrities who prefer to raise their families outside of Hollywood include “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy, 47, leading this year's Oscars, who spoke about her discreet life in Dublin, Ireland, and Chris Hemsworth, 40, who moved his wife Elsa Pataky, 47, and three children to the town of Byron Bay, Australia, which has a population of less than 10,000.
“We were starting to get a lot of attention in Los Angeles,” Pataky told the Post in 2018. “And when you have children, it’s more complicated. We wanted to live in a natural place where children could grow up away from attention.
Danny McBride, who created and currently stars in HBO's “The Righteous Gemstones,” also moved his family from Hollywood to Charleston, South Carolina.
In 2019, McBride told the Post, “I had never been to (Charleston) before and we filmed “Vice Principals” there. I just fell in love with the city. I went back to L.A. and we were like the cast of “Lost,” like, “We have to get back to the island!”
“So we moved there. »