Overview

• McConaughey told People there was an eight-year stretch when he kept Sunday calls with his mother brief because stories he shared would surface in the news days later.
• Kay McConaughey described the period as a hiatus that started after she showed a TV crew through her son's childhood home, saying she was proud and did not expect him to find out.
• The actor said the relationship improved once he felt secure in his public standing and he stopped setting rules for what his mother could say in public.
• He and his mother now appear together in The Lost Bus, with her playing his character’s mother in the film.
• The Lost Bus premieres Friday on Apple TV+ and also features McConaughey’s oldest son, Levi.