Who Is Matthew McConaughey's Mom, Kay 'K-Mac' McConaughey?
Phrases like "larger than life" and "live wire" spring to mind when talking about 88-year-old Kay 'K-Mac' McConaughey. She's big-hearted actor Matthew McConaughey's mother. And she nonetheless looms very huge in his existence and figures prominently in Greenlights, his new memoir about his formative years in Texas and his Hollywood profession.
Originally from New Jersey, Kay met Matthew's father, Jim on the University of Kentucky. Theirs was once an overly eventful, passionate, and combative marriage. More of that later.
Let's have a look at Kay and her marriage to Jim and what she's been up to since he died in 1992. She's been in a film or two and written a memoir which in conventional Okay-Mac fashion, she titled I Amaze Myself.
Prepare to be amazed. One factor is for certain: Actor Matthew McConaughey has his hands full managing Okay-Mac. Or trying to, anyway. Things were given so dangerous between them that at one level they were estranged for 8 years.
Jim And Kay McConaughey
To begin with, "Big Jim" and K-Mac completely had a love/hate roughly factor going on. They had been married three times, divorced two times. And their fights were not just shouting matches. Oh no, Jim and Kay were given bodily. Once Kay whacked Jim with a phone and broke his nose. And Jim, a former faculty and professional soccer player, broke her finger on multiple occasion.
One second they have been punching and slapping one any other. The subsequent moment they had been making love. Sometimes in their bed. Sometimes at the kitchen floor. And all of this in complete view of Matthew and his brothers "Rooster" and Patrick. That was once their customary. And the funny factor is, they all appear to have turned out of it just positive.
Jim died in 1992, just as he mentioned he would, making love to Kay. And Kay, in a flimsy nightie, followed his body out, revealing his manhood and telling the embarrassed neighbors that's why she referred to as him "Big Jim"!
Matthew realized early on to not mess with Ok-Mac. Once when he was just a child and he came working when a chum referred to as him "Matt", Kay grabbed him and slammed him to the ground, announcing that she had named him "Matthew" and somebody who dared name him "Matt" was once 'jackin' with me". He got the point real rapid.
Age Is Just A Number
We hope that Matthew's wife Camila Alves actually likes K-Mac because mama always seems to be around for Awards ceremonies and those all-important after-parties. Ever the dutiful son, Matthew bought a house in Austin, so he, Camila, and their 3 kids can see Kay more often. Matthew even teaches a film class at the University of Texas.
Pushing 90, Kay still parties hard with the best of them. Says Matthew: “I do not remember the last time when we partied when she didn't go to bed after me and get up before me.”
Master Lessons In How To Embarrass And Annoy Your Son
Kay being Kay, she regularly embarrasses her rich and famous movie star son. See, K-Mac had a taste of fame when she was in a 2011 movie called Bernie. And she wants more.
A red-faced Matthew has said: “Every single role I get, she wants to be in the movie." Subtle? Forget it. She visits him on sets and corners casting administrators and producers. She's even pitched a remake of The Graduate with her as Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) and Matthew as Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman), her lover. No one turns out interested. It would just be too extraordinary for phrases. But to K-Mac it sort of feels like an ideal concept. For the life of her, she cannot understand why it will never occur.
But that is the thing about Ok-Mac. She truly believes she can do the rest she wants to do. Her 2008 memoir I Amaze Myself says it all. Even when she screws up, she never admits it. In some ways, her cigar-chewing, swaggering son Rooster is a Kay mini-me. And Matthew? He just gets red within the face when the two of them are around!
Is Kay filled with herself? In a phrase, sure. Once, Matthew stated to her: "Mom no one forgives themselves quicker than you. Do you ever have any regret, or do you ever at the end of the day say, 'I could work on that'"?
K-Mac didn't miss a beat, saying: "Honey, every single night when I go to bed, I have a long list of those things. But the thing is, when I wake up in the morning, I’ve forgotten them all.’” And then she smiles that mega-watt smile and all is forgiven.
Sometimes, in spite of his great love for her, Matthew finds K-Mac totally annoying. A case in point: Matthew has repeatedly reminded her not to talk to the press without checking in with him and his publicist first. Every time, she swears up and down she will do just that. Does she? No way. After one such solemn promise, Matthew turned on the TV and saw Kay on Hard Copy, showing some reporter Matthew's old room and chatting openly about his childhood. Matthew was beside himself. Did she care? Nope. After that little episode, they were estranged for 8 years. Things are cool now, but it was intense for a time.
That's just life in the K-Mac lane.
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