Matthew McConaughey tells Reese Witherspoon she was his childhood celebrity crush
‘If you’ve seen the movie, you’d see [it’s] inevitable,’ McConaughey said
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Your support makes all the difference.Matthew McConaughey admitted to Reese Witherspoon that she was his childhood celebrity crush in a recent interview.
The actors appeared together on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday (15 December), where they took part in a rapid-fire Q&A segment together.
Asked who their first celebrity crushes were, Witherspoon said that hers was Val Kilmer, thanks to his role as Jim Morrison inThe Doors, when she was 13, adding: “I was a weird kid.”
However, when the question got to McConaughey, the Dallas Buyers Club star said: “Well, I did have a little bit of a crush on [the] young lady sitting to the left of me from Man in the Moon.”
“What?” a shocked Witherspoon responded, with DeGeneres asking: “Are you just learning this?”
He continued: “It was one of my early, early crushes and if you’ve seen the movie, you’d see [it’s] inevitable. What’s not to have a crush on?”
Witherspoon starred in the 1991 coming-of-age drama as a 14-year-old girl who falls in love with her older neighbour. The critically-acclaimed film marked her screen debut.
McConaughey and Witherspoon have starred in a number of films together over the years, including 2013’s Mud and the animated Sing films.
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