Last week, we reported [1] that Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey’s 12 year-old son Levi looked just like him in a new photo posted to social media. Now, McConaughey is speaking out to reveal just how proud he is of his lookalike son.
“Levi is the most considerate person I’ve ever met,” McConaughey told Entertainment Tonight [2]. “Yeah, he’s extremely considerate and a very, very sensitive young man and really cares — really caring kid. And he, like me, has a very much perfectionist bone in him.”
“He wants things to be exactly how he wants them,” the Academy Award-winner added. “And he is very definite at exactly how that is and is not afraid to hop up on the chair and orate to everyone exactly what he means in case you do not understand. He’s a great salesman, he’s a great debater, he’s a great storyteller, he’s becoming a really good storyteller. He and I, we riff up stories and he knows, we give a little wink when we embellish somewhere, like ‘Oh, that didn’t happen, but hey, it’s better for the story,’ but for the most part he’s very active and he’s becoming a good buddy of mine now as he’s reaching 12.”
McConaughey went on to say that he wouldn’t mind if any of his three children, with the other two being 10-year-old daughter Vida and 7-year-old son Livingston, decided to follow in his footsteps in the entertainment world.
“Look, I want them to do whatever it is they’re fashioned to do,” the actor said. “Whatever they have an innate ability to do, and are willing to put in the work to get better at it. Whatever that is, I want them to do that. If that becomes something in the industry that I’m in? Bravo. I’ve met some of the most wonderful people in my life in my industry, I love what I do. Everybody on a set of a film or a TV show has to be great at their particular job for it to work.”
“I have already started to employ them,” McConaughey continued. “They do all my photo shoots now. They did the Longbranch ads. Levi did. He’s the DP, he’s the one going out there, we’re setting up the GoPros. We’re doing the editing. So, maybe I’ll have a little McConaughey production crew here, and we’ll be a one-stop shop.”
He added that he loves being a father, something that he’s known he wanted to do ever since he was 8 years-old.
“I learned this, the idea of being a father and although that’s the only thing I ever wanted to be, I’ve learned that fatherhood is a verb, it’s not just about being half of making the child,” McConaughey explained. “It’s the verb of the work you do after your children are born and there’s a great, incredible responsibility and privilege to be in that position. … What better job could we have? What better legacy could we leave behind than our children? … And my favorite project I’ve ever worked on is fatherhood and I’m trying to do my best at it.”
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com [5] and is used by permission.
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