Matthew McConaughey recalled how his mom, Kay McConaughey, supported him after he was arrested for taking part in bongo drums whereas bare and excessive in 1999.
The 55-year-old actor detailed the infamous incident in his bestselling 2020 memoir, “Greenlights.” Eventually weekend’s Texas E-book Pageant, which featured McConaughey and Malcolm Gladwell because the headlining authors, the Oscar winner joined director Richard Linklater for a dialog about “Greenlights.”
Whereas talking with Linklater, McConaughey remembered the recommendation Kay shared with him after the notorious arrest.Â
“‘You go exterior in entrance of that media, and also you maintain your head excessive,'” the Texas native recalled Kay telling him, in line with Individuals journal. “‘I do know what you had been doing final night time taking part in bongos, smoking that humorous stuff in your birthday go well with, and you’ve got carried out it many occasions earlier than. And I do know you are going to do it once more.'”
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Matthew McConaughey recalled recommendation his mom Kay gave him after he was arrested for taking part in the bongos bare whereas excessive in 1999. (Getty)
McConaughey instructed Linklater, who directed the actor in his breakthrough film, “Dazed and Confused,” that Kay had shared related phrases of knowledge with him earlier than.
“‘Do not stroll into a spot such as you wish to purchase it, stroll in it such as you personal it.’ She tells me that earlier than we go to promenade. She tells me that on the morning earlier than I went in to go do a display take a look at for ‘A Time to Kill,’” he mentioned.
In “Greenlights,” McConaughey wrote that the arrest occurred after he attended a soccer recreation throughout which his alma mater’s group, the Texas Longhorns, squared off towards the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Kay instructed her son to “maintain your head excessive” and face the media. (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)
After the Longhorns triumphed over the Huskers, McConaughey, who was 29 on the time, recalled that Austin was “on hearth” and “it was time to rejoice.”
“I partied via the night time into Sunday, and thru Sunday night time with out sleeping a wink,” he wrote. “At 2:30 that Monday morning, I lastly determined to wind down. It was time to decrease the lights, get undressed, open up the window and let the jasmine scent from my backyard come inside.
“It was time to smoke a bowl and hearken to the gorgeous African melodic beats of Henri Dikongué play via my house audio system. It was time to face over my drum set and comply with the rhythm of the blues earlier than they acquired to Memphis on my favourite Afro-Cuban drum born of ceremony and talking in tongues, the congas.”
“You go exterior in entrance of that media, and also you maintain your head excessive.”
Nonetheless, McConaughey wrote that his nude jam session was unexpectedly interrupted.
“What I didn’t know was that whereas I used to be banging away in my bliss, two Austin policemen additionally thought it was time to barge into my home unannounced, wrestle me to the bottom with nightsticks, handcuff me and pin me to the ground,” he recalled.
McConaughey remembered that one officer instructed him that he was being charged with “disturbing the peace, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.'”
“F— you, motherf—–! You broke in my home! F–, yeah, I resisted!” the “Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days” star recalled yelling on the officer
McConaughey detailed the arrest in his 2020 memoir, “Greenlights.” (Robert Daemmrich Pictures Inc/Sygma through Getty Pictures)
McConaughey wrote that he refused when the opposite officer tried to wrap a blanket across the actor’s bare physique.
‘”Ohhhh no!” I barked. “I’m not placing s— on! My bare ass is proof I used to be mindin’ my very own enterprise!”’ he remembered telling the officer.
Because the actor was being escorted to the police automotive, he noticed that his arrest had attracted a crowd.
McConaughey famous that “phrase should have unfold over the police scanner as to simply who had been arrested as a result of there on the road had been six lit-up cop vehicles and about 40 of my neighbors.”
After arriving on the Austin Police Division, McConaughey remembered {that a} fellow inmate satisfied him to placed on a “pair of males’s orange institutional pants.”
McConaughey initially had instructed the inmate that his bare state was “proof of my innocence.”
“‘All of us harmless, man. Belief me, you do wanna put these on,'” the actor remembered the inmate saying.
McConaughey and lawyer Joe Turner exterior the jail in 1999. (Robert Daemmrich Pictures Inc/Sygma through Getty Pictures)
“Perhaps it was his sincere eyes or the truth that he was a fellow offender, or perhaps it was the sudden realization that, when a six-foot, six-inch jailbird constructed like a brick s—house tells you, ‘You do wanna placed on some pants earlier than you go within the clink,’ it’s in all probability finest to pay attention,” McConaughey wrote.
After spending the night time in jail, McConaughey was visited by Decide Penny Wilkov and legal protection lawyer Joe Turner.
Wilkov determined to dismiss disturbing the peace and possession misdemeanor expenses and allowed McConaughey to be launched on bond for resisting arrest.
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McConaughey wrote that Turner suggested him to go away the jail from the again entrance as a result of reporters had gathered in entrance of the constructing.
The actor wrote that he felt “responsible” and was not sure methods to deal with his departure from jail. At that time, he known as Kay.
The actor’s expenses of disturbing the peace and possession had been dismissed, and he was launched on bond for resisting arrest. (Robert Daemmrich Pictures Inc/Sygma through Getty Pictures)
“On the lookout for some fearless comfort, I made a decision to name my mother earlier than I selected which option to depart my first jail stint,” McConaughey wrote. “Perhaps it was the truth that whereas I used to be certain she would haven’t any mercy for my circumstance, on the identical time, I knew she would pour a drink and toast to the way it was I acquired into it.Â
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“Was it going to be her that answered or was it going to be that new groupie fan? I didn’t know. Seems it was each.
“‘They what, Matthew?! Broke into your own home!? These son of a bitches, you retain your head up,” he recalled Kay saying. “‘There may be nothing improper with smokin’ just a little enjoyable stuff and taking part in your drums bare at night time in your individual house; who do they assume they’re comin in your own home like that?!’
“Simply what I wanted,” McConaughey wrote. “I hung up and determined to stride towards the media mob out entrance as a substitute of sneaking out the again.
“Two days later, BONGO NAKED T-shirts had been throughout Austin.”Â
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Matthew McConaughey speaks in the course of the 2024 Texas E-book Pageant in Austin. (Gary Miller/Getty Pictures)
Throughout McConaughey’s look on the Texas E-book Honest, Linklater identified that McConaughey wasn’t the one writer within the household.
“You are not the primary McConaughey to write down a memoir,” the director instructed him.Â
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“Your mother beat you to it,” Linklater added, referring to Kay’s 2008 self-published memoir.
“You wish to know what my mother’s memoir known as? ‘I Amaze Myself.’ She has a bumper sticker — nonetheless does to this present day — ‘I Amaze Myself,'” McConaughey mentioned.Â
“She’s 92, and you’ll’t argue with it,” he added.
