Matthew McConaughey recalled how his mother, Kay McConaughey, supported him after he was as soon as arrested for taking part in bongo drums while naked and excessive in 1999.

The 55-365 days-unique actor detailed the notorious incident in his bestselling 2020 memoir, “Greenlights.” At remaining weekend’s Texas Guide Festival, which featured McConaughey and Malcolm Gladwell because the headlining authors, the Oscar winner joined director Richard Linklater for a conversation about “Greenlights.”

Whereas speaking with Linklater, McConaughey remembered the advice Kay shared with him after the sinful arrest.

“‘You mosey start air in entrance of that media, and likewise you save your head excessive,'” the Texas native recalled Kay telling him, per Folks journal. “‘I do know what you had been doing remaining night playing bongos, smoking that funny stuff on your birthday swimsuit, and likewise you’ve finished it over and over earlier than. And I do know you is presumably going to manufacture it again.'”

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McConaughey suggested Linklater, who directed the actor in his breakthrough movie, “Dazed and Puzzled,” that Kay had shared the same words of wisdom with him earlier than.

“‘Don’t stroll into a predicament corresponding to you wish to buy it, stroll in it corresponding to you fill it.’ She tells me that earlier than we mosey to stir. She tells me that on the morning earlier than I went in to mosey fabricate a screen check for ‘A Time to Break,’” he acknowledged.

In “Greenlights,” McConaughey wrote that the arrest occurred after he attended a football sport all by which his alma mater’s team, the Texas Longhorns, squared off against the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

After the Longhorns triumphed over the Huskers, McConaughey, who was as soon as 29 on the time, recalled that Austin was as soon as “on fire” and “it was as soon as time to procure fun.”

“I partied through the night into Sunday, and thru Sunday night without sound asleep a wink,” he wrote. “At 2:30 that Monday morning, I lastly determined to wind down. It was as soon as time to lower the lights, salvage undressed, start up the window and let the jasmine scent from my garden arrive interior.

“It was as soon as time to smoke a bowl and be aware of the beautiful African melodic beats of Henri Dikongué play through my home audio system. It was as soon as time to stand over my drum build and be aware the rhythm of the blues earlier than they acquired to Memphis on my favourite Afro-Cuban drum born of ceremony and speaking in tongues, the congas.”

“You mosey start air in entrance of that media, and likewise you save your head excessive.”

— Kay McConaughey

On the opposite hand, McConaughey wrote that his nude jam session was as soon as all straight away interrupted.

“What I didn’t know was as soon as that while I was as soon as banging away in my bliss, two Austin policemen moreover thought it was as soon as time to barge into my home unannounced, wrestle me to the bottom with nightsticks, handcuff me and pin me to the flooring,” he recalled.

McConaughey remembered that one officer suggested him that he was as soon as being charged with “traumatic the peace, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.'”

“F— you, motherf—–! You broke in my home! F–, yeah, I resisted!” the “Tricks on how to Lose a Man in 10 Days” star recalled yelling on the officer

McConaughey wrote that he refused when the opposite officer tried to wrap a blanket spherical the actor’s naked physique.

‘”Ohhhh no!” I barked. “I’m no longer placing s— on! My naked ass is proof I was as soon as mindin’ my fill replace!”’ he remembered telling the officer.

Because the actor was as soon as being escorted to the police car, he saw that his arrest had attracted a crowd.

McConaughey famed that “note must procure spread over the police scanner as to correct who had been arrested because there on the boulevard 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 convinced him to positioned on a “pair of fellows’s orange institutional pants.”

McConaughey on the beginning had suggested the inmate that his naked dispute was as soon as “proof of my innocence.”

“‘All of us harmless, man. Have confidence me, you fabricate wanna achieve these on,'” the actor remembered the inmate pronouncing.

“Perchance it was as soon as his upright eyes or the incontrovertible truth that he was as soon as a fellow offender, or presumably it was as soon as the surprising realization that, when a six-foot, six-crawl jailbird constructed like a brick s—home tells you, ‘You fabricate wanna positioned on some pants earlier than you mosey within the clink,’ it’s doubtlessly most appealing to pay attention,” McConaughey wrote.

After spending the night in penal advanced, McConaughey was as soon as visited by Deem Penny Wilkov and criminal protection prison reliable Joe Turner.

Wilkov determined to brush off traumatic the peace and possession misdemeanor charges and allowed McConaughey to be launched on bond for resisting arrest.

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McConaughey wrote that Turner told him to proceed the penal advanced from the support entrance because reporters had gathered in entrance of the building.

The actor wrote that he felt “responsible” and was as soon as doubtful how it’s likely you’ll per chance take care of his departure from penal advanced. At that point, he called Kay.

“Shopping for some dauntless consolation, I made up my mind to name my mother earlier than I chose which map to proceed my first penal advanced stint,” McConaughey wrote. “Perchance it was as soon as the incontrovertible truth that while I was as soon as definite she would don’t procure any mercy for my circumstance, on the identical time, I knew she would pour a drink and toast to the top likely map it was as soon as I acquired into it.

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“Changed into it going to be her that answered or was as soon because it going to be that new groupie fan? I didn’t know. Turns out it was as soon as both.

“‘They what, Matthew?! Broke into your predicament!? Those son of a bitches, you save your head up,” he recalled Kay pronouncing. “‘There is nothing atrocious with smokin’ a small fun stuff and playing your drums naked at night on your fill residence; who fabricate they mediate they are comin on your predicament like that?!’

“Apt what I needed,” McConaughey wrote. “I hung up and determined to plod toward the media mob out entrance other than sneaking out the support.

“Two days later, BONGO NAKED T-shirts had been accurate through Austin.”

All the top likely map through McConaughey’s appearance on the Texas Guide Stunning, Linklater pointed out that McConaughey wasn’t the handiest creator within the family.

“You are no longer the first McConaughey to write a memoir,” the director suggested him.

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“Your mother beat you to it,” Linklater added, referring to Kay’s 2008 self-published memoir.

“You desire to have to know what my mother’s memoir is named? ‘I Amaze Myself.’ She has a bumper sticky label — gentle does to for the time being — ‘I Amaze Myself,'” McConaughey acknowledged.

“She’s 92, and likewise it’s likely you’ll per chance no longer argue with it,” he added.