The real reason Matthew McConaughey abandoned Hollywood for Austin, Texas

Matthew McConaughey went into item connected his determination to move his family from Los Angeles to his autochthonal Texas connected Thursday's version of TODAY pinch Hoda & Jenna.

The Academy Award-winning actor, 54, was asked by Hoda Kotb, 60, why he chose to make nan move back, contempt moving successful an manufacture based retired of Southern California.

'This has ever been home, I mean, there's aggregate reasons for that,' McConaughey said connected nan greeting show, which was connected location successful Austin, Texas. 'I mean, this is wherever I person a awesome narration pinch clip - meaning 60 seconds feels for illustration a minute, a mile feels for illustration a mile.'

McConaughey - who is begetter to 3 children pinch woman Camila Alves, 41- Levi, 15, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11 - added, 'I for illustration to unrecorded successful a spot and for a location to beryllium a spot wherever I person a bully narration pinch time.'

The Dallas Buyers Club prima noted that his family is based retired of Texas, including his mother, 92, and brothers who unrecorded successful Houston and Midland.

'Our family portion is present - we person resources and a backbone of information here,' The Lincoln Lawyer character added.

McConaughey said he had ever intended to caput backmost location arsenic he grew his family pinch Alves, a Brazilian exemplary and designer.

The Lone Star State autochthonal and his spouse exchanged vows astatine their location successful Austin, Texas connected June 9, 2012, and moved backmost location (from Malibu, California) 2 years later. 

'I wanted them to person what I grew up around,' McConaughey said. 'There's a coagulated … magnitude of communal consciousness that runs done it, it's untalked about, but we understand it here.'

He hailed Austin arsenic a 'very imaginative metropolis successful a authorities that is very structured,' and 1 wherever group are accepted for who they are.

'The norm successful Austin is "Be You" - that's ever been nan norm successful this metropolis - and we should make judge that that remains nan norm - conscionable "Be You,"' he said.

McConaughey, who was calved successful Uvalde, Texas and raised successful Longview, Texas, went to assemblage astatine nan University of Texas astatine Austin anterior to entering show business. He remains an ardent instrumentality of nan school's shot team, nan Texas Longhorns, often appearing connected sidelines astatine games.

His quality came days aft he took to societal media condemning nan behaviour of a conception of Longhorns fans after they pelted nan section pinch bottles aft their nonaccomplishment to nan Georgia Bulldogs Saturday, successful protestation of a telephone that went against nan location team.

'Let's get existent astir nan vessel bombing nan section glitch we had,' said McConaughey. 'Not cool. Bogey move.'

'Yeah, that telephone was BS, but we're amended than that. Longhorn Nation knows really to show up, show retired for illustration nary other, and still support our class. So, going guardant let's cleanable that benignant of BS up and time off that down america for good.'

The mates this past March chat pinch nan publication Southern Living astir their matrimony and family life, detailing their determination to move. 

'We were surviving a happy life successful Malibu,' Alves said. 'We had a beautiful location that we'd built together and put a batch of emotion and attraction into. We were raising our kids there. I was increasing everything successful nan yard. I had bees making honey.'

Alves said an emergency initially led nan family to spell to Austin to thief McConaughey's mother Kay McConaughey and his brothers. 

In that time, she noticed that his temper was overmuch lighter successful his autochthonal Texas than it had been successful California. 

Alves said that while they were driving, she noticed that nan True Detective character had a 'peaceful but confident, energetic look' astir him. She asked him, 'You want to move here, don't you?' to which he said, 'Yep.'

Alves said that she's comfortable successful Texas, arsenic nan local culture parallels definite aspects of really she grew up successful Brazil.

'We grew up saying, "Yes, ma'am" and "No, sir" aliases - arsenic I should opportunity - "Yes, ma'am" and "Yes, sir," Alves said. 'It takes maine correct backmost to really I was raised.'

The Dazed and Confused alum explained nan specifications of what made his homecoming a decade agone truthful special.

'Ritual came back, whether that was Sunday church, sports, meal together arsenic a family each night,' he said, 'or staying up aft that telling stories successful nan kitchen, sitting astatine nan land pouring drinks and nibbling while retelling them each successful different ways than we told them before.'