Overview

• McConaughey told Australia’s Stellar magazine he was drinking margaritas when he spotted Alves across a Los Angeles bar in 2006 and used tequila-fueled confidence to call her over.
• PerthNow highlighted the new quote as part of renewed coverage of the couple’s origin story nearly two decades after they first met.
• On Southern Living’s Biscuits Jam podcast, Alves recalled being “tested” by McConaughey’s mother, including being called by exes’ names and addressed in broken Spanish.
• McConaughey later characterized the behavior as family “rites of passage,” telling ET Canada that newcomers are deliberately tested before being accepted.
• The pair married in 2012, have three children, launched the Pantalones tequila brand, and Alves now describes her relationship with Kay as warm and respectful.