Overview

• The actor reiterated that his father, James McConaughey, suffered a fatal heart attack immediately after having sex with his mother in 1992, a detail first published in his 2020 memoir.
• He said his mother, Mary Kathleen “Kay” McConaughey, pulled a sheet off the body and told paramedics not to cover him, insisting he leave “in his birthday suit.”
• McConaughey placed the morning at roughly 6:30 a.m. for the sex and 7:30 a.m. for the removal, recounting that he got the news by phone while in Austin as his parents were in Houston.
• He characterized the loss as the defining moment in his maturation, saying it gave him the courage to grow up.
• The retelling comes in a week of media appearances tied to The Lost Bus, which is in select theaters and set to stream on Apple TV+ on October 3.