Levi McConaughey is ready to follow in his father Matthew’s footprints (exclusively)

• Levi McConaughey is the son of the award-winning actor and producer Matthew McConaughey and Brazilian-American model, designer and entrepreneur Camila Alves McConaughey
• Camila tells me solely that Levi will act on its own terms
• 16 -year -old has been thrown into the film Way of the Warrior Kid, like stars Chris Pratt

Levi McConaughey follows in his movie star dad Matthew McConaughey ‘s footsteps.

While he talks to people at the last MJ & M two-day collection events In Austin, who was put together with McConaugheys, football coach Mack Brown and singer writer Jack Ingram, KamilaNoted that her oldest son Levi, 16, had caught the actor.

“Levi, our oldest, he comes to a little spectacle. Well, I shouldn’t say a little,” Camila tells People. “He has always done things that worked behind the camera or worked with sets or in the singing department when we travel for Matthew’s work,” she says.

But now he will be in front of the camera.

“He got some on one of the films that Matthew called The lost busAnd then he got auditions to try this second movie, and he did everything. He served it himself, ”she says proudly.

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“It was beautiful to see,” she says. “He made a bunch of auditions and then lots of meetings and had to go personally and really did the whole thing. And then he got the part. So he actually has a real part of a movie called Way of the Warrior Kid game Chris Pratt. ”

Over the years, McConaugheys has given a window in his parents’ styles and How they raise their childrenthat includes daughter Vida, 15 and son Livingston, 12. In June 2020, the couple talked about parenting during an interview with Urban-And Matthew revealed that he is “more consistently that yes the guy” of the two.

“Sometimes it means loving your children giving them exactly what they want. Other times it means tough love,” he told the outlet. “Aligning people can give their children everything they want, but they will usually not get what they need. To love a child is much harder if you really make a damn.”

When he talked to people in April 2024, Matthew said it to be dad has “made me a better actor.”

“Having children I know has made me a better artist and has made me a better actor, for children see things for the first time all the time. Their questions are innocent,” he said, citing their time at the HBO show True detective.

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Matthew continued, “I can’t tell them what the show is really about, it’s not age -adapted. So I have to go into a parable for them … I had to become a better storyteller to tell my kids about a good guy, a bad guy and a monster.”

The 16-year-old son spoke to people at the premiere of Matthew’s new film, The king’s rivalsAt the SXSW Film Festival in Austin.

While he was at the premiere did Levi his first red carpet interviewchat about his upcoming actress debut in the upcoming age film Way of the Warrior Kid. When asked if his father gave him some advice to act in his first film, the teen shared that there were some things his famous father said.

“I mean, he gave me a lot of advice, and he could mentor me in a couple of different ways,” Levi explained. “But I would say that the most important thing to act, and forgive my French, is no B —— in your legs and owns what you do and makes a choice, whether it ends up right or wrong-eighty you and know what you say.”