McConaughey Shares How Harrelson Crashes Homes and Vacations Without Warning

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• Matthew McConaughey revealed on the Glass Half Full podcast that Woody Harrelson regularly enters homes unannounced, including one 2 a.m. visit where Harrelson climbed into bed with McConaughey and his wife.
• McConaughey also told Conan O’Brien that Harrelson once invited a honeymooning couple he met at baggage claim to stay at their rented Greek villa for a week.
• McConaughey and Harrelson are starring together in a new show called Brothers, where they portray fictional versions of themselves who discover they may be biological siblings.

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have built a decades-long friendship marked by spontaneous visits and unexpected invitations.

McConaughey described how Harrelson never calls ahead or uses the front door when arriving at his home.

“We hadn’t seen each other for a year at the time when I was living out in LA. I hadn’t seen him for a year. Guess my introduction to him,” McConaughey said.

“My wife goes ‘ah.’ And I go, ‘Woah.’ Two in the morning, wake up, Woody’s in between us in bed! He had jumped the fence, picked the window, snuck in, and got in bed with us.”

Harrelson acknowledged the intrusion but framed it as friendly, adding, “But what a good way to wake up a friend, you know what I mean, and get to be next to Camila [Alves, McConaughey’s wife]. Like, that was nice. She was warm to me.”

McConaughey also recounted how Harrelson once invited complete strangers to join their family vacation in Greece.

“We go on a Greek holiday and my family… we rent the place… We rent the place and they… we fly over, but they get there before us and we show up and there’s two people sitting on the tailgate of a truck right in front of our rental.”

The couple had met Harrelson and his wife at the airport and accepted the open invitation without hesitation.

“When he confronted Harrelson, who had already claimed the primary bedroom in the rental, he told him, ‘They’re great, man. They’re going to be with us for a week.'”

McConaughey noted that these unannounced stays often extend for months at a time.

“He never comes through a front door. And he’ll swing by for an hour to say, ‘Howdy!’” McConaughey said. “It might turn into, ‘I’ve moved in for three months.’”

Harrelson confirmed he tends to make himself at home, and McConaughey’s children often resist when their father asks Harrelson to leave.

The two actors are currently promoting their new series Brothers, which explores the possibility that they could be related.

McConaughey’s mother once told Harrelson she knew his father, leading both men to consider a DNA test to determine whether they share a biological connection.

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