Matthew McConaughey went into detail about his decision to move his family from Los Angeles to his native Texas on Thursday’s edition of TODAY with Hoda and Jenna.
Hoda Kotb, 60, asked the Academy Award-winning actor, 54, why he decided to return, despite working in an industry based in Southern California.
“This has always been my home, I mean, there are multiple reasons for that,” McConaughey said on the morning show, which took place in Austin, Texas. “I mean, this is where I have a great relationship with time: I mean, 60 seconds feels like a minute, a mile feels like a mile.”
McConaughey, father of three children with his wife Camila Alves, 41, Levi, 15, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11, added: “I like to live in a place and for a home to be a place where I have a Good relationship with time.’
The Dallas Buyers Club star noted that his family is based in Texas, including his mother, 92, and his siblings who live in Houston and Midland.
Matthew McConaughey, 54, went into detail about his decision to move his family from Los Angeles to his native Texas on Thursday’s edition of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna.
McConaughey appeared on the morning show while in Austin, Texas.
“Our family unit is here; we have resources and a backbone of security here,” added actor Lincoln Lawyer.
McConaughey said he always intended to return home while growing his family with Alves, a Brazilian model and designer.
The Lone Star State native and his wife exchanged vows at their home in Austin, Texas, on June 9, 2012, and returned there (from Malibu, California) two years later.
“I wanted them to have what I was around growing up,” McConaughey said. “There’s a solid…amount of common sense that runs through it, it’s not talked about, but we understand it here.”
He hailed Austin as a “very creative city in a very structured state” and where people are accepted for who they are.
“The rule in Austin is ‘Be you’ – that’s always been the rule in this city – and we need to make sure that remains the rule – just ‘Be you,'” he said.
McConaughey, who was born in Uvalde, Texas and raised in Longview, Texas, attended the University of Texas at Austin before entering show business. He remains an avid fan of the school’s football team, the Texas Longhorns, and often appears on the sidelines of games.
His appearance came days after he took to social media to condemn the conduct of a segment of Longhorns fans after they threw bottles on the field following their loss to the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday, in protest of a decision that was against the local team.
He said on the NBC show: “I mean, this is where I have a great relationship with time, which means 60 seconds feels like a minute, a mile feels like a mile.”
The Oscar-winning actor and his family moved from Malibu, California to Austin, Texas in 2014.
He said of Texas: “There’s a solid…amount of common sense that runs through it, it’s not talked about, but we understand it here.”
“Let’s be real about the field problem we had with bottle bombing,” McConaughey said. ‘It’s not right. Phantom movement.’
‘Yes, that call was stupid, but we’re better than that. Longhorn Nation knows how to show up, stand out like no other and still keep it classy. So from now on, let’s clean up that kind of nonsense and leave it behind forever.’
The couple chatted with the publication this past March southern life about their marriage and family life, detailing their decision to move.
“We lived a happy life in Malibu,” Alves said. ‘We had a beautiful house that we built together and we put a lot of love and care into it. We were raising our children there. He was growing everything in the garden. He had bees making honey.
Alves said an emergency initially led the family to go to Austin to help McConaughey’s mother, Kay McConaughey, and his siblings.
At that time, he noticed that his mood was much happier in his native Texas than in California.
Alves said that while they were driving, he noticed that the True Detective actor had a “peaceful but confident and energetic look.” She asked him: ‘You want to move here, don’t you?’ to which he said, ‘Yes.’
Alves said she feels comfortable in Texas, as the local culture parallels certain aspects of how she grew up in Brazil.
McConaughey attended the University of Texas at Austin and remains an avid fan of the school’s football team, the Texas Longhorns, often appearing on the sidelines of games. Pictured on Saturday
On Monday, he took to social media to condemn the conduct of a segment of Longhorns fans after they threw bottles on the field following their loss to the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday, protesting a call that went against the home team. .
McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves, 41, were photographed with their three children Levi, 16, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11, on April 25 at an event for their nonprofit at ACL Live in Austin, Texas.
“We grew up saying, ‘Yes, ma’am,’ and ‘No, sir,’ or, as I should say, ‘Yes, ma’am,’ and ‘Yes, sir,'” Alves said. “It takes me back to how I was raised.”
The Dazed and Confused alum explained the details of what made his return home a decade ago so special.
“The ritual came back, whether it was Sunday church, sports, eating dinner together as a family every night,” he said, “or staying up after that telling stories in the kitchen, sitting at the island pouring drinks and nibbling while telling them all. in different ways than we told you before.