A Complete Timeline of Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves’ Relationship
usmagazine.comA match made over margaritas! Matthew McConaughey is known for playing a charmer in rom-coms, but his wife, Camila Alves, was initially resistant to his moves.The duo first met in 2006 at a bar in Los Angeles where the Oscar winner was mixing up drinks for his friends.
He invited the model and his friends to join his table, and she did — but by herself.“That night I spoke 25 minutes of the best Spanish I’ve ever spoken in my life,” the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star recalled in a January 2017 interview with Howard Stern. “She spoke Portuguese.
I don’t think I ever understood Portuguese as well as I did that night. I was focused. It worked.”Alves eventually left the club with McConaughey, but she put her foot down when it came to sleeping over. “She’s like, ‘OK, I’m gonna go.
I’m gonna get a cab.’ And I’m like, ‘Don’t do that. It’s way too late,’” the Greenlights author recalled. “’Take the guest bedroom.’”The Brazil native did — and when her future husband checked on her later that night, she rebuffed his advances.
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