EntertainmentThe advice Matthew McConaughey received after being arrested for playing the bongos naked and stonedIn the memoir Greenlights (2020), Matthew McConaughey recalled how the police officers’ approach was quite abrupt today at 3:16 pm

Long before being successful in films like Interstellar (2014), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) and Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Matthew McConaughey he was even arrested for playing the bongos naked and high – and received valuable advice from his mother, Mary Kathlene McCabe.

In participation in the Texas Book Festivalwhere he spoke with the director Richard Linklaterthe 55-year-old artist spoke about the advice of the incident that happened in 1999. According to him, his mother said (via People): “You go out in front of that media and hold your head high. I know what you were doing last night playing bongos, smoking that funny thing in your birthday suit, and you’ve done it many times before and I know that You’ll do it again.”

“‘Don’t go into a place like you want to buy it, go in like it’s yours.’ She tells me that before we went to the dance, the morning before I went to do a screen test for Time to Kill,” he recalled McConaughey.

In the memoir, titled Greenlights (2020), the actor said that the incident happened after he watched a football game. Texas LonghornsAmerican football, and spent the whole weekend partying. So, he decided to “relax” with some marijuana and the “beautiful melodic beats of Henri Dikongué.”

Matthew McConaughey He opened the window to smell the jasmine in the garden and then decided to play along with the music with the bongos. “What I didn’t know was that while I was basking in my happiness, two Austin police officers also thought it was time to break into my house unannounced, tackle me to the ground with batons, handcuff me and pin me to the ground,” he wrote.

Finally, when a police officer stated that McConaughey resisted arrest, the actor replied: “You broke into my house! Damn, yes, I resisted.”