Matthew McConaughey reveals advice his mum gave him after he was arrested for playing bongos while naked and high

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Matthew McConaughey says his mother wasn’t surprised when he got was arrested for playing the bongos while naked and high.Speaking to director Richard Linklater at the Texas Book Festival, the Interstellar actor recalled the advice his mother gave him following the infamous 1999 incident.“‘You go outside in front of that media and you hold your head high,'” McConaughey recalled his mother saying (via People). “‘I know what you were doing last night playing bongos, smoking that funny stuff in your birthday suit, and you’ve done it many times before and I know you’re going to do it again.”“‘Don’t walk into a place like you want to buy it, walk in it like you own it.’ She tells me that before we go to prom, she tells me that on the morning before I went in to go do a screen test for A Time to Kill,” McConaughey said.According to McConaughey’s 2020 memoir Greenlights, the bongo incident occurred after he went to a Texas Longhorns football game and spent the rest of the weekend partying.