Woody Harrelson didn’t appear to confirm or deny that Matthew McConaughey could be his real -life brother.
The duo have been close friends for a number of years, appearing alongside each other in the anthology crime drama True Detective.
And they’re returning to the screen once more in a new Apple TV Plus comedy, Brother From Another Mother, where they will star as fictionalised versions of themselves as they share a Texas ranch with their families.
However, the Dallas Buyers Club actor, 53, recently claimed that their families often confused the best buds in photographs.
Matthew even revealed that the Now You See Me star, 61, suggested the pair do DNA tests.
Addressing the shocking revelation on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Woody teased: ‘Well, I’ll just say there is some voracity to that thought.’
He added: ‘We were in Greece, we were watching the US team win the World Cup. I mentioned something about regrets, and I said, “ah, it’s odd that my father had no regrets.”
“I’ve known Mom Mc [Matthew’s mother] a long time, and she goes: ‘I knew… your father…’
‘It was the ellipsis I found a little troubling, or interesting,’ Woody added.
Woody’s father, Charles V Harrelson, was first handed a 15-year custodial sentence in 1973 for the murder of grain dealer Sam Degelia Jr – something the actor found out as a child via a radio broadcast, he told The Guardian.
He said: ‘I was in the car waiting for a lady who was picking me up from school, helping my mum, and anyway I was listening to the radio and it was talking about Charles V Harrelson and his trial for murder and blah blah blah blah and I’m sitting there thinking there can’t be another Charles V Harrelson. I mean, that’s my dad!’
His father was then handed another life sentence in 1981 after the assassination of Texan district judge, John H Wood.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs weeknights on ABC at 11:35pm/10:35c.
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