Matthew McConaughey removed his son’s last name

Matthew Macunahi He does not have the idea of ​​his son Levi McConaughey He wanted to behave until he approached him about a role in his new father’s movie, The lost bus.

“I had no idea that he was interested,” Matthew, 55, He told reporters While standing beside his son at the Toronto International Film Festival at the Festival Paul Greenjras Friday, September 5. “I return to the house, as you know, give the story to the family, as I always do, and I reach the part of my son, and says (Levy),” How old is your son? “I said,” He is of your life. “He says,” Can I read to him? “And what did you say?

Matthew explained that Levy, 17, is close to him “four times”, asking if he could test for the part. The actor finally approached the director of photography, Francin Maysler.

Matthew said: “The role was open to reading. We send the test. “

He believed that his son’s tape was good enough to make the call response, but the actor director insisted that he go to the director Greengrass.

I said, well, if I did that, then withdraw his last name. Good? So that he does not know, “Matthew continued.” Paul saw reading without the last name, saying: “This is the child.” Go, “really?” , “Yes”. She goes, “This is actually Ibn Matthew!” It was like, “great”. So I was like, “Great”, (Levy) was like, “great”, and we had a great celebration that day. “

Levy told the correspondents that he “did not expect it at all” when he heard he fell. “I knew it was a good test, but I didn’t think I would have got the part. I really did not behave, really, at this level.”

Even the teenager admitted that he started crying when he heard that he booked the party, which made his father a bit fog.

Matthew recalls: “I remember that day. I acted great on the phone and I was excited and then when I got stuck, your eyes were working well,” Matthew recalls.

The lost bus It is based on a story from Fire Camp Fire 2018, where the driver of the school bus (Matthew) and the teacher (America Ferrera) saved 22 children while they were fighting one of the bloodiest and most destructive fires in the history of California.

Matthew’s mother, Kay Mcabi MaconihaiAlso appears in the movie as a mother on the Matthew screen.

Matthew said: “We already have, my mother and my mother in the same scene. I don’t know when it was done last time. There are three generations in it,” Matthew said. “My mom was always performing, so she was in some films. Richard Lincalter We put in the same movie, in Bernebefore.”

Matthew Levy, as well as the daughter of Vida, 15, and Ibn Livingstone, 12, participates with the wife Camilla Alves. The couple returns for five years before engaging and linking the knot in 2012.

“I try as a father not to make things more difficult but to go,” he said. I do not hand over that to you. ”If you pulled it the first time? Bravo. But if you skin your knees several times on the road? Bravo. I don’t give you the pass to the door. See, you will get more access to us (as fathers).