Matthew McConaughey is open about the current “Nepo Baby” conversation while his son Levi gets into the spotlight.
The Oscar-winning actor plays with his 17-year-old in the coming Apple TV+ drama The lost busAnd he does not shy away from tackling the privilege and the challenges associated with a famous surname.
“There is a rule between rights and shame,” said McConaughey in a new interview with PEOPLE Published on 24 September.
“If you can look the right in the eyes and deal with it, and if it works, you will see it, [acting is] A great roller coaster. ‘
The Dallas Buyers Club Star, who shares Levi, as well as Vida, 15, and Livingston, 12, with wife Camila Alves, admitted that while he tried to guide his son through the UPS and Downs of Hollywood, Levi needs room to shape his own career.
“It’s hard to keep your feet on the ground to find out the real things of the BS. But after a while you have to get that sixth feeling,” explained the 55-year-old.
“It is important that he has his own property of who he is and will be. And [acting] Will be part of it if he continues to do it, find part of finding his identity, but it cannot be his complete identity. “
As far as Levi is concerned, he acknowledges that having McConaughey and father comes both opportunities and expectations.
The teenager admitted that he is only now starting to feel the weight of that connection, but he made it clear that he is determined to prove himself on his own conditions.
“As many as people can say:” You have this because of your father or mother, “they can open the door, but then it’s up to me to do my thing once I come in there,” he said. “That’s up to me.”
With his first major project, Levi seems ready to eliminate the challenges to eliminate a career in front of the camera, while his father continues to remember that success in Hollywood is more than a recognizable name.
