Matthew McConaughey enjoyed a father-daughter outing with 15-year-old Vida at a college basketball game.
McConaughey, 55, and Vida were spotted at the University of Texas women’s basketball game against the University of Tennessee on Thursday, January 24. (The Longhorns won 80-76.)
While the actor sported a white T-shirt with a pair of jeans, which he accessorized with a brown leather jacket and a belt that was centered with a star-shaped buckle, his teenager made Us do a double-take as she looked just like her mother, Camila Alves McConaughey. Vida, for her part, supported UT with a cropped team top that she paired with light-wash jeans. She wore her hair in loose waves and added a selection of delicate gold jewelry to finish off her ensemble.
Along with Vida, McConaughey and Alves McConaughey, 41, share sons Levi, 16, and Livingston, 12. The family of five live in his native Texas after relocating away from Los Angeles.
“When I was rolling in the rom-coms, and I was the rom-com dude … that was my lane and I liked that lane, that lane paid well, and it was working,” McConaughey said on a November 2024 episode of the “Good Trouble With Nick Kyrgios” podcast. “I was so strong in that lane that anything outside of that lane, dramas and stuff that I wanted to do. Hollywood said, ‘No, no, no, no, you should stay there, stay there.’”
He added, “Since I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, I stopped doing what I was doing and moved down to the ranch in Texas. I made a pact with my wife and said, ‘I’m not going back to work unless I get offered roles I want to do.’”
Part of their Texas lifestyle, McConaughey is often a fixture at UT football games with his children.
McConaughey and Alves McConaughey have been married since 2012, often getting candid about raising their family.
“You know, it’s interesting because when you have little ones, you are physically exhausted, right? And I feel like when you get to the teenagers … it’s almost like you need more energy,” Alves McConaughey previously told Luxury Handbag Shopping exclusively in July 2022. “You need more brain power because it becomes all very about the mind, right? It’s like a teenager [is] trying to find their identity and find how they’re going to navigate their lives. So I think that … for me, it’s more challenging in a good way.”
She added at the time, “When it comes to more of … the ability to really guide, like, a young man or a young woman, it takes a different kind of brain to pass, you know, brain power [and] to guide [or] to navigate through that. But it’s beautiful. It’s inspiring. It also makes you look at a lot of things that you are doing as an adult as well, you know, when you get to that stage. … It’s a beautiful stage.”
