It’s not just receding hair and a shared taste in recreational drugs that makes the two look related. But it is an awfully similar story to their new drama
Families can be complicated, beguiling things. Long-kept secrets can simmer away for generations before exploding in a mess of trauma and recriminations. Children can learn that they have a different biological father. Cousins can learn that they’re actually siblings removed at birth. And Matthew McConaughey can have a bit of a hunch that Woody Harrelson is his half-brother.
Somewhat unbelievably, this last one is playing out in real time. On an episode of Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast, McConaughey started to discuss Harrelson, his regular co-star in work as diverse as True Detective and EDtv. “You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like...
Families can be complicated, beguiling things. Long-kept secrets can simmer away for generations before exploding in a mess of trauma and recriminations. Children can learn that they have a different biological father. Cousins can learn that they’re actually siblings removed at birth. And Matthew McConaughey can have a bit of a hunch that Woody Harrelson is his half-brother.
Somewhat unbelievably, this last one is playing out in real time. On an episode of Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast, McConaughey started to discuss Harrelson, his regular co-star in work as diverse as True Detective and EDtv. “You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like...
- 4/14/2023
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson may be more than just peas in a pod.
On the latest episode of the podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera withe Kelly Ripa”, McConaughey revealed that there’s an outside possibility his “True Detective” co-star is actually his brother.
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“You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line. And that’s part of our bromance, right?” the actor said of his friendship with Harrelson.
“My kids call him Uncle Woody. His kids call me Uncle Matthew. And you see pictures of us and my family thinks a lot of pictures of him are me,” McConaughey added. “His family thinks a lot of pictures of me are him.”
But apparently a conversation with his mom led McConaughey to...
On the latest episode of the podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera withe Kelly Ripa”, McConaughey revealed that there’s an outside possibility his “True Detective” co-star is actually his brother.
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“You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line. And that’s part of our bromance, right?” the actor said of his friendship with Harrelson.
“My kids call him Uncle Woody. His kids call me Uncle Matthew. And you see pictures of us and my family thinks a lot of pictures of him are me,” McConaughey added. “His family thinks a lot of pictures of me are him.”
But apparently a conversation with his mom led McConaughey to...
- 4/13/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Matthew McConaughey teased his upcoming Apple comedy series with Woody Harrelson in an interview with Kelly Ripa on her SiriusXM podcast Let’s Talk off Camera with Kelly Ripa. McConaughey revealed the title of the series, Brother From Another Mother, which Apple has described as an odd-couple love story that revolves around the “strange and beautiful bond” between the pair.
McConaughey said Brother from Another Mother will take the shape of “a series about our families that’s based on truth.” He went on to explain, “Where Woody and I are the best of friends, we have different approaches in how we raise our children and how we got about certain things,” and as for their half-hour comedy, “It’s a love story, about us, he and I and our families coming together and the conflicts and comedy that come with it.”
The series will see their friendship “tested when...
McConaughey said Brother from Another Mother will take the shape of “a series about our families that’s based on truth.” He went on to explain, “Where Woody and I are the best of friends, we have different approaches in how we raise our children and how we got about certain things,” and as for their half-hour comedy, “It’s a love story, about us, he and I and our families coming together and the conflicts and comedy that come with it.”
The series will see their friendship “tested when...
- 4/12/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson announced in March they will be reuniting onscreen after “EDtv” and “True Detective” in a new Apple TV+ comedy from creator David West Read. The 10-episode series will star the actors as fictionalized versions of themselves as they bring their families under the same roof on a Texas ranch. McConaughey recently announced on Kelly Ripa’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast that the series is titled “Brother From Another Mother.”
While the series’ title evokes McConaughey and Harrelson’s real-life friendship over decades, McConaughey let it slip to Ripa that he’s actually questioning whether Harrelson is actually related to him. It all stems from the revelation that McConaughey’s mother knew Harrelson’s father, perhaps intimately.
“You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line,” McConaughey said. “And that’s part of our bromance,...
While the series’ title evokes McConaughey and Harrelson’s real-life friendship over decades, McConaughey let it slip to Ripa that he’s actually questioning whether Harrelson is actually related to him. It all stems from the revelation that McConaughey’s mother knew Harrelson’s father, perhaps intimately.
“You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line,” McConaughey said. “And that’s part of our bromance,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Raymond Allen, an actor who had memorable recurring roles on classic ’70s sitcoms Sanford and Son and Good Times, died Monday of a non-covid respiratory illness at a long-term care facility in California. He was 91.
Allen’s death was announced by his daughter, Ta Ronce Allen, in a Facebook post.
The actor was best known for his Sanford and Son character of Uncle Woodrow “Woody” Anderson, brother-in-law of Redd Foxx’s Fred Sanford and long-suffering husband of Lawanda Page’s Aunt Esther. On another Norman Lear-created series, Good Times, Allen played Ned the Wino, a neighborhood street character and friend of the series’ central Evans family. Both Woody and Ned showcased Allen’s comic depiction of cheerful intoxication.
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Born on March 5, 1929, in Kansas City, Mo, the youngest of 12 children, Allen also appeared in ’70s series What’s Happening!!, Starsky and Hutch,...
Allen’s death was announced by his daughter, Ta Ronce Allen, in a Facebook post.
The actor was best known for his Sanford and Son character of Uncle Woodrow “Woody” Anderson, brother-in-law of Redd Foxx’s Fred Sanford and long-suffering husband of Lawanda Page’s Aunt Esther. On another Norman Lear-created series, Good Times, Allen played Ned the Wino, a neighborhood street character and friend of the series’ central Evans family. Both Woody and Ned showcased Allen’s comic depiction of cheerful intoxication.
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Born on March 5, 1929, in Kansas City, Mo, the youngest of 12 children, Allen also appeared in ’70s series What’s Happening!!, Starsky and Hutch,...
- 8/11/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Raymond Allen, who portrayed Uncle Woody on Sanford and Son, died Monday, his daughter announced. He was 91.
"Just wanted to let The Allen Family and friends know that Dad received his wing two hours ago," Ta Ronce Allen wrote on Facebook. "His warmth, kind heart and clever sayings will be missed. His laughter will ring in heaven."
He had been living in a California health care facility since 2016, TMZ reported.
Allen appeared as Woodrow "Woody" Anderson — married to Lawanda Page's Aunt Esther — on 11 episodes of NBC's Sanford and Son from 1974-77....
"Just wanted to let The Allen Family and friends know that Dad received his wing two hours ago," Ta Ronce Allen wrote on Facebook. "His warmth, kind heart and clever sayings will be missed. His laughter will ring in heaven."
He had been living in a California health care facility since 2016, TMZ reported.
Allen appeared as Woodrow "Woody" Anderson — married to Lawanda Page's Aunt Esther — on 11 episodes of NBC's Sanford and Son from 1974-77....
- 8/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Raymond G. Allen Sr., a character actor known for playing Uncle Woody on the 1970s sitcom “Sanford and Son,” has died. He was 91.
The actor had been living at a long-term care facility in California when he was found unresponsive early Monday morning, according to TMZ. His family told the outlet that his cause of death was a sudden respiratory illness, but was not Covid-related.
His “Sanford and Son” character Uncle Woodrow “Woody” Anderson was the husband of Aunt Esther, known for never turning down a drink. Allen appeared in nine episodes of “Sanford and Son,” which was a top 10-rated show for five out of its six seasons.
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Allen’s other roles as a character actor included like Ned the Wino on “Good Times,” another popular sitcom that aired from 1974 to 1980, and Merl the Earl on “Starsky and Hutch,...
The actor had been living at a long-term care facility in California when he was found unresponsive early Monday morning, according to TMZ. His family told the outlet that his cause of death was a sudden respiratory illness, but was not Covid-related.
His “Sanford and Son” character Uncle Woodrow “Woody” Anderson was the husband of Aunt Esther, known for never turning down a drink. Allen appeared in nine episodes of “Sanford and Son,” which was a top 10-rated show for five out of its six seasons.
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Allen’s other roles as a character actor included like Ned the Wino on “Good Times,” another popular sitcom that aired from 1974 to 1980, and Merl the Earl on “Starsky and Hutch,...
- 8/11/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
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