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Matthew McConaughey Reveals What His Mom Said After His 1999 Naked Bongo Arrest

During the Texas Book Festival, the Academy Award-winning actor shared his mom's advice — the same tip she gave before auditions and his prom/

According to Greenlights, the 1999 bongo incident came after McConaughey, then 29, went to a Texas Longhorns football game and spent the rest of the weekend partying. The actor opened his window to smell the jasmine in his garden, and then decided to play along with the music with his bongos, he revealed in Greenlights. “What I didn’t know was that while I was banging away in my bliss, two Austin policemen also thought it was time to barge into my house unannounced, wrestle me to the ground with nightsticks, handcuff me and pin me to the floor,” McConaughey wrote in his memoir.

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