The real reason Matthew McConaughey abandoned Hollywood for Austin, Texas

Matthew McConaughey went into item connected his determination to determination his household from Los Angeles to his autochthonal Texas connected Thursday's variation of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna.

The Academy Award-winning actor, 54, was asked by Hoda Kotb, 60, wherefore helium chose to marque the determination back, contempt moving successful an manufacture based retired of Southern California.

'This has ever been home, I mean, there's aggregate reasons for that,' McConaughey said connected the greeting show, which was connected determination successful Austin, Texas. 'I mean, this is wherever I person a large narration with clip - meaning 60 seconds feels similar a minute, a mile feels similar a mile.'

McConaughey - who is begetter to 3 children with woman Camila Alves, 41- Levi, 15, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11 - added, 'I similar to unrecorded successful a spot and for a location to beryllium a spot wherever I person a bully narration with time.'

The Dallas Buyers Club prima noted that his household is based retired of Texas, including his mother, 92, and brothers who unrecorded successful Houston and Midland.

'Our household portion is present - we person resources and a backbone of information here,' The Lincoln Lawyer histrion added.

McConaughey said helium had ever intended to caput backmost location arsenic helium grew his household with Alves, a Brazilian exemplary and designer.

The Lone Star State autochthonal and his spouse exchanged vows astatine their location successful Austin, Texas connected June 9, 2012, and moved backmost determination (from Malibu, California) 2 years later. 

'I wanted them to person what I grew up around,' McConaughey said. 'There's a coagulated … magnitude of communal consciousness that runs done it, it's untalked about, but we recognize it here.'

He hailed Austin arsenic a 'very originative metropolis successful a authorities that is precise structured,' and 1 wherever radical are accepted for who they are.

'The regularisation successful Austin is "Be You" - that's ever been the regularisation successful this metropolis - and we should marque definite that that remains the regularisation - conscionable "Be You,"' helium said.

McConaughey, who was calved successful Uvalde, Texas and raised successful Longview, Texas, went to assemblage astatine the University of Texas astatine Austin anterior to entering amusement business. He remains an ardent instrumentality of the school's shot team, the Texas Longhorns, often appearing connected sidelines astatine games.

His quality came days aft helium took to societal media condemning the behaviour of a conception of Longhorns fans after they pelted the tract with bottles aft their nonaccomplishment to the Georgia Bulldogs Saturday, successful protestation of a telephone that went against the location team.

'Let's get existent astir the vessel bombing the tract glitch we had,' said McConaughey. 'Not cool. Bogey move.'

'Yeah, that telephone was BS, but we're amended than that. Longhorn Nation knows however to amusement up, amusement retired similar nary other, and inactive support our class. So, going guardant let's cleanable that benignant of BS up and permission that down america for good.'

The mates this past March chat with the publication Southern Living astir their matrimony and household life, detailing their determination to move. 

'We were surviving a blessed beingness successful Malibu,' Alves said. 'We had a beauteous location that we'd built unneurotic and enactment a batch of emotion and attraction into. We were raising our kids there. I was increasing everything successful the yard. I had bees making honey.'

Alves said an exigency initially led the household to spell to Austin to assistance McConaughey's parent Kay McConaughey and his brothers. 

In that time, she noticed that his temper was overmuch lighter successful his autochthonal Texas than it had been successful California. 

Alves said that portion they were driving, she noticed that the True Detective histrion had a 'peaceful but confident, energetic look' astir him. She asked him, 'You privation to determination here, don't you?' to which helium said, 'Yep.'

Alves said that she's comfy successful Texas, arsenic the local culture parallels definite aspects of however she grew up successful Brazil.

'We grew up saying, "Yes, ma'am" and "No, sir" oregon - arsenic I should accidental - "Yes, ma'am" and "Yes, sir," Alves said. 'It takes maine close backmost to however I was raised.'

The Dazed and Confused alum explained the details of what made his homecoming a decennary agone truthful special.

'Ritual came back, whether that was Sunday church, sports, meal unneurotic arsenic a household each night,' helium said, 'or staying up aft that telling stories successful the kitchen, sitting astatine the land pouring drinks and nibbling portion retelling them each successful antithetic ways than we told them before.'