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Matthew McConaughey on his 1999 nude bongo arrest: 'F**k, yeah, I resisted'
Oct 23, 2020
Yahoo Celebrity
Matthew McConaughey on his 1999 nude bongo arrest: 'F**k, yeah, I resisted'
Suzy Byrne
Suzy Byrne·Editor, Yahoo Entertainment
October 23, 2020·6 min read
In this article:
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey
American actor
Matthew McConaughey’s arrest — while playing the bongos naked and stoned — is one of the wildest, though harmless, celebrity arrest stories in history. In his memoir, Greenlights, he tells his side of the story — and why he refused, multiple times, to put on pants as he was hauled to the station.
Almost exactly 21 years ago, on Oct. 25, 1999, McConaughey — then known for A Time to Kill and Dazed and Confused — recalled living in a two-bedroom rental home in the “sleepy” and upscale Austin neighborhood called Tarrytown. He had gone to see his alma mater’s football team, the Texas Longhorns, win big on Saturday and partied “though the night into Sunday and through Sunday night without sleeping a wink.”
Yahoo Celebrity
Matthew McConaughey on his 1999 nude bongo arrest: 'F**k, yeah, I resisted'
Suzy Byrne
Suzy Byrne·Editor, Yahoo Entertainment
October 23, 2020·6 min read
In this article:
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey
American actor
Matthew McConaughey’s arrest — while playing the bongos naked and stoned — is one of the wildest, though harmless, celebrity arrest stories in history. In his memoir, Greenlights, he tells his side of the story — and why he refused, multiple times, to put on pants as he was hauled to the station.
Almost exactly 21 years ago, on Oct. 25, 1999, McConaughey — then known for A Time to Kill and Dazed and Confused — recalled living in a two-bedroom rental home in the “sleepy” and upscale Austin neighborhood called Tarrytown. He had gone to see his alma mater’s football team, the Texas Longhorns, win big on Saturday and partied “though the night into Sunday and through Sunday night without sleeping a wink.”
In this handout, American actor and producer Matthew McConaughey in a mug shot following his arrest in Austin, Texas, US, 25th October 1999. (Photo by Kypros/Getty Images)
In his new book Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey shares stories — including the one about his 1999 arrest while playing bongos naked, and getting stoned, in his Austin home. (Photo: Kypros/Getty Images)
It was at 2:30 a.m. on Monday that the then 29-year-old actor began to “wind down,” by lowering the lights, getting undressed and opening the window to allow the jasmine scent from his garden to waft in. It was also time to “smoke a bowl,” of marijuana, and listen to the “beautiful melodic beats of Henri Dikongué,” a Cameroonian singer and guitarist, on his stereo. He joined in, playing his congas for a jam session.
“What I didn’t know was that while I was banging away in my bliss, two Austin policemen also thought it was time to barge into my house unannounced, wrestle me to the ground with nightsticks, handcuff me and pin me to the floor,” the future Academy-Award winner wrote.
He said one “‘roided-up cop with a crew cut” was more aggressive from the start, sneering, “Ohhh, looky who we got here,” after seeing McConaughey’s driver’s license on his coffee table.
Then the cop picked up the bong and said, “And looky what we got here. Mr. McConaughey, you are under arrest for disturbing the peace, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest,” while the actor was still pinned to the floor."
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