Matthew McConaughey Details He & Wife Camila Alves' Rules Behind Son Levi's Soci

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00:00 a lot of times with young people in social media is they wake up in the morning and the

00:03 first thing on their mind is what will be a good post instead of what do I want to do

00:08 today and oh if that's cool why don't I post that.

00:12 Matthew McGonaughey is getting real about parenting.

00:16 While making an appearance on the Today Show, the actor talked about his first ever children's

00:20 book called Just Because and how his own three kids helped inspire the story.

00:25 I noticed that stuff I was writing about was things I was talking to my own kids about.

00:29 Things that I think they're going to enjoy, things I think the kid and all of us will

00:32 enjoy.

00:33 So talk to us about Just Because.

00:34 So it's all about, life's full of contradictions, nothing's black or white.

00:38 No, and we're told, especially young people today are feeling more and more pressured

00:42 to be absolute about something.

00:43 Yeah.

00:44 You know, my daughter is like, she's going to play volleyball and she's like, well do

00:47 I need to be a pro?

00:48 I'm like, no you don't need to be a pro, you're 13, just go play volleyball.

00:51 You don't have to be absolute about that.

00:54 And it's about, hey, you got options right now.

00:58 Try things out.

01:00 Forgive yourself, forgive others.

01:01 You can mess up today and make it right tomorrow.

01:05 Matthew who shares his three kids with wife Camilla Alvis, also opened up about allowing

01:10 their son Levi to join social media on his 15th birthday.

01:14 How has it been for him being on social media?

01:16 So far, solid.

01:17 Solid?

01:18 Yeah.

01:19 So far, solid.

01:20 He really steps into, you know, how much he's immediately in touch with it, what he's exporting.

01:25 And we're going through, we're measuring, we're discussing things.

01:28 We had him look at a lot of other people that he looked up to, their posts.

01:32 We talked about why do you like those?

01:34 And then you saw certain people that had maybe more hits and you go, but why did they?

01:38 Were they relevant for the right reasons?

01:41 Were they relevant for reasons that actually spoke to being more of themselves rather than

01:46 acting like somebody else?

01:47 And we've just, the discussion is ongoing.

01:50 Matthew's first Instagram post was on July 7th and he shared a compilation video that

01:54 showed off moments from his life and with his family.

01:57 First introducing himself before audio played of his dad's famous line from his breakout

02:02 role in the 1993 cult classic, Dazed and Confused.

02:08 Matthew and Camilla have been married since 2012 and also share a 13 year old daughter

02:12 Vida and 10 year old son Livingston.

02:15 Access Hollywood's Kit Hoover chatted with the Dallas Buyers Club actor in October 2020

02:20 following the release of his memoir, Green Lights.

02:22 And he reminisced on his and Camilla's love story from the first time they met to how

02:26 she won over his mom.

02:28 Your wife Camilla posted the most beautiful tribute when your book went to number one.

02:33 What did that mean to you?

02:34 You know, I just saw that someone sent that to me.

02:38 I did not even know she'd put that out and it was very cool to read that.

02:43 One to read the facts of what she put up there.

02:46 But also just reminded me of, you know, she was the first person I thanked when I found

02:51 out that the book had been so well and opened up at number one because I mean, I couldn't

02:56 have done it without her.

02:57 She from the initial pushing me out the door and give me help and give me the courage to

03:03 say, get out of here.

03:05 You've been threatening to write a book for a while.

03:08 I see it eating at you.

03:09 Get out of here.

03:10 Do not come back until you've got something.

03:12 And then to tell me when I would be away for two weeks and feeling like, oh, I think I

03:16 need to get back.

03:17 She was like, we got it.

03:18 We're good.

03:19 If you're still in the zone writing, do not come back.

03:23 Stay there.

03:25 So she was incredible amount of support.

03:27 And then I would share with her different drafts as I came back.

03:29 And she's always been a very honest critic of the work I do.

03:33 And she helped me out a lot.

03:34 Your love story with her.

03:36 I loved reading those chapters.

03:38 Take me back to the moment you spotted her.

03:40 She floated on air.

03:44 My eye, she sure did.

03:46 I went back and did the math.

03:48 She actually was walking on the floor.

03:49 But as far as I could tell, her head was not bobbing.

03:52 She was just sliding across the room.

03:55 Yeah, I was out holding court at a table making some margaritas.

03:59 And this figure about 20 feet in front of me moved from my right to left.

04:04 And there were these caramel colored shoulders and this sort of turquoise, very thin, loose

04:09 fitting beautiful dress on.

04:11 And I remember I leaned forward without even thinking about it.

04:14 And I said, what is that?

04:16 I didn't say who was that.

04:17 I said, what is that?

04:18 She went and sat down.

04:20 I started to kind of try to get her attention to call her over from the room.

04:25 And as I was doing that, I heard my mother in my ear saying, boy, get your butt up.

04:31 This ain't the kind of woman you wave across the room.

04:32 And I said, yes, ma'am.

04:33 I got up.

04:34 Mind you, my mom wasn't physically there.

04:36 But that's what I heard in my ear.

04:37 I introduced myself to Camilla.

04:39 I invited her and her friends over, which I think was a good move because I think if

04:43 I would have just invited her over and not her friends, she would have probably said

04:46 no.

04:47 But because I invited her and her friends over, she then came over alone.

04:50 Bing!

04:51 Green light.

04:52 Well played.

04:53 And then she sat down and I understood Portuguese and spoke better Spanish that night than I

04:55 ever have since.

04:56 And that got me in the door.

04:58 And I asked her out to go out the next night.

04:59 She couldn't for the most beautiful reason.

05:02 It was her father's birthday.

05:05 Non-negotiable.

05:06 Beautiful.

05:07 And finally I did get her to go out with me and we've been going out ever since.

05:11 >> But the night you kind of conned her to stay over.

05:13 She slept in the separate bedroom.

05:15 My favorite part is you went down twice.

05:17 Did you ever think about doubling back for a third time?

05:19 Third time's the charm, my friend.

05:23 >> No, I finally got tired.

05:24 And the second time she kicked me out of that room, I could tell she more than meant it.

05:30 I was like, I'm not going to test that again.

05:32 If I go back the third time, I may get injured.

05:36 >> I love you said there was a moment you saw her in the kitchen with your friends and

05:40 it was sort of an aha moment.

05:42 Do you remember the moment you knew that she had to be the mother of your children and

05:46 your wife?

05:52 >> It was probably about two years after that.

05:55 And we had been dating and it had been going really well.

05:59 And she had come out to the set on location with me in Australia on the film "Fool's

06:04 gold."

06:05 And she had never brought anyone, male or female friends with me.

06:09 They none even visited.

06:10 When I go to work, I'm like there in my trailer or where I'm renting my house.

06:14 And that's all I do.

06:15 I go to work, come home and do it all over again.

06:19 And I really like my solitude.

06:20 Well, I wanted her to come out with me and she did.

06:26 We had taken a long weekend vacation to a little surfer treat in Papua New Guinea, where

06:33 we were living in like staying in this little tree house in the middle of the jungle.

06:36 It was beautiful.

06:38 And about five o'clock watching the sun go down over the Solomon Sea one night, like

06:42 day five, I was really feeling like I would really fall in love with her.

06:47 And this is the woman I want to spend the rest of my time with.

06:48 And I would love for her to be the mother of children we can create.

06:52 And I asked her very nervously, she was sitting to the right of me, I said, what would I have

06:56 to do to lose you?

06:59 And she was so cool about it.

07:00 I remember she had this, our first cocktail she had in her hand that day and she had her

07:05 hand and as I asked her, what would I have to do to lose you?

07:08 Her hand was on her way to her mouth.

07:09 She didn't pause.

07:10 She took a sip, swallowed it, set the glass down on the exact water ring that it had left

07:18 on the arm of the wooden chair she was sitting in.

07:22 She looked out and really composed.

07:25 She goes, oh, that's easy.

07:28 And then looked over at me and said, change.

07:33 I crumpled.

07:34 I was like, please, amen, all aboard, I'm in, let's go.

07:40 And that's when I really was like, this is the one.

07:43 >> Did she always get along with your mom, kay?

07:45 Was that instant too?

07:47 >> No, that wasn't instant.

07:50 My mom is very, very persistent about initiating any woman into any of her son's lives.

08:01 She did it with my two older brothers and she had her, she did it with Camilla too.

08:08 She would do it by mispronouncing her name, calling her by different names at certain

08:12 times just to test her.

08:14 And mom would be like, and then you call her on it, go, mom.

08:16 And she'd be like, oh, what?

08:17 Oh, I didn't notice I did that.

08:18 Oh, yes, she did notice she did that.

08:20 So she tested Camilla, but Camilla did the great thing that my mom was really looking

08:25 for.

08:26 She bucked up to her.

08:29 And they went off on a trip together one time.

08:32 I think it was to Turkey, solo, just the two of them together for like a week.

08:37 And boy, they got back from that trip and my mom had full respect for Camilla and full

08:41 blessing.

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