Matthew McConaughey shares why he decided to move to Texas with family

Matthew McConaughey has recently shared the real reason for leaving California and moving to Texas with his wife and children.

In a new interview with Southern Living, the Interstellar star, who tied the knot with wife Camila Alves McConaughey, recalled they were driving back from seeing Matthew’s mother when Camila said she couldn’t help but notice the “gravity” that Texas held in his heart.

Camila shared she asked Matthew, “You want to move here, don’t you?”

The couple of 12 years moved with their children in 2014 and opened up about the positive impact life had on their family out of Hollywood.

The True Detective actor told the outlet, “Time slowed down. The clock was right, the body clock.”

“And part of that is ritual; part of that is just the distance between places and the way people move. But it’s also the hospitality, the courtesy, the common sense, the lack of drama,” he stated.

Matthew’s wife Camila confessed, “It wasn’t as easy for her to find her footing at first.”

Camila, who is the model and entrepreneur, mentioned that she was finally able to adjust once she realised the similarities that her home country and Texas share.

“We grew up saying ‘Yes, ma’am’ and ‘No, sir’ or — as I should say — ‘Yes, ma’am’ and ‘Yes, sir.’ It takes me right back to how I was raised,” she explained.

Reflecting on family life in Texas, Matthew added, “Ritual came back, whether that was Sunday church, sports, dinner together as a family every night, or staying up after that telling stories in the kitchen, sitting at the island pouring drinks and nibbling while retelling them all in different ways than we told them before.”