Matthew McConaughey drew the last name of a son for audition

Matthew McConaughey Without the idea of ​​his son Levi McConaughey Want to act until he approached him for a role in his father’s new film, The missing bus.

“I had no idea that he was even interested,” Matthew, 55, by correspondents While standing alongside his son at the Toronto International Film Festival Premiere from the Paul Greengrass Film on Friday, September 5. “I come home, you know, pitch the story for the family, as I always do, and I get to the part for my son, and say (Levi), ‘How old is your son?’ I said, ‘It’s about your age.’ He said, ‘May I read him?’ And what did I say?

Matthew explained that Levi, 17, had approached him “another four times,” asking if he could audition for the part. The actor finally went to the Casting Director, Francine Maisler.

“The role was open to reading about it. He got on camera, (Levi) read the scene, and I said, ‘Okay, he can catch the frame and he has the intuition for him. We send in the audition,’ said Matthew.

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He believed his son’s tape was good enough for a call back, but the Casting Director insisted he was going right to director Greengrass.

“I said, ‘Okay, if you do, then take off his last name. Okay? So he doesn’t know,’” Matthew continued. “And Paul saw the reading without the last name, he goes, ‘This is the child.’ She’s going, ‘Really?’ It’s going, ‘yes.’ She’s going, ‘That’s really Matthew’s son!’ It was like, ‘Great.’ And so I was like, ‘Great,’ (Levi) like, ‘Great,’ and we had a great celebration that day.

Levi told reporters he “did not expect at all” when he heard him landed the role. “I knew it was a good audition, but I didn’t think I was going to get the part. I never acted before, really, at this level.”

The young man even admitted that he started crying when he heard him ordered the NHS, which even got his father a little foggy.

“I remember that day. You acted all cool on the phone and excited and then when you hung up, made your eyes well,” Matthew remembered.

The missing bus Based on a story out of the 2018 campfire, where a school bus driver (Matthew) and Professor (America Ferrera) saved 22 children as they battled the same deadly and most destructive fires in California history.

Matthew’s mother, Kay McCabe McConaugheyAlso appears in the film as a mother on the Matthew screen.

“We myself, Levi and my mother in the same scene. I don’t know when the last time that was done. It has three generations,” said Matthew. “My mother has always been a performer so she’s been in some films. Richard Linklater Put us in the same movie, in PineieBefore. “

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Matthew shares Levi, as well as the daughter of Vida, 15, and her son Livingston, 12, with his wife Camila Alves. The couple dated for five years before engaging and tie the knot in 2012.

“I try as a father not to make things harder but to go, ‘No, you have to win that. I don’t give you that,” he told the podcast “2 bears, 1 cave” in 2024 of making sure that his children never feel they are entitled because of his fame status. “If you pull it off first? Bravo. But if you skin your knees a few times on the road? Bravo. I don’t give you the ticket to the door. Look, you’re going to have more access with us (like parents). I have no problem having you in the door. Once you’re in the door, bro, you don’t see yourself.”