Matthew McConaughey commemorates arrest anniversary with tequila firm

Matthew McConaughey is commemorating the anniversary of his arrest in a novel manner.

The 55-year-old “Dallas Buyers Club” star and his spouse, Camila Alves, and their tequila firm, Pantalones Organic Tequila, marked the event with a dramatic studying of his arrest report.

“If playing the bongos in my birthday suit gives us an anniversary worth raising a glass to, I’ll pour some Pantalones and cheers to it,” McConaughey advised Fox News Digital.

Voice actor Steve Zirnkilton, greatest often called the voice of the opening narration for all “Law and Order” franchises, offered his voice for the video’s intro.

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McConaughey first wrote about his arrest in his 2020 memoir, “Greenlights.” In the e-book, he defined it occurred in October 1999 when he was 29 years outdated, after he watched his alma mater, the Texas Longhorns, defeat the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Following the win, he wrote that “it was time to celebrate.”

“I partied through the night into Sunday, and through Sunday night without sleeping a wink,” he wrote. “At 2:30 that Monday morning, I finally decided to wind down. It was time to lower the lights, get undressed, open up the window and let the jasmine scent from my garden come inside.”

“If playing the bongos in my birthday suit gives us an anniversary worth raising a glass to, I’ll pour some Pantalones and cheers to it.”

— Matthew McConaughey

He went on to say that “it was time to smoke a bowl and listen to” musician Henri Dikongué, whereas he adopted alongside on his bongos. “It was time to stand over my drum set and follow the rhythm of the blues before they got to Memphis,” he stated.

“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,” he wrote in his e-book.

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The actor wrote that he was charged with “disturbing the peace, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.”

Looking again, Alves tells Fox News Digital that “Only Matthew could turn a night like that into something we celebrate with tequila.”

In addition to the dramatic studying, the couple are celebrating the anniversary with a brand new signature cocktail known as “Pantsless and Famous,” a play on the well-known cocktail, “Naked and Famous,” a transfer which performs into the model’s slogan, “The Official Tequila of Marching to Your Own Beat.”

McConaughey and Alves co-founded the tequila firm in October 2023. In order to advertise the model, the couple launched a variety of ads that includes the 2 of them doing numerous actions, together with taking part in pickleball and doing laundry, with out pants on.

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“We’re precious about our tequila, not our pants,” McConaughey and Camila stated in a press launch. “With the explosion in popularity of tequila, there’s a level of snootiness that’s crept into the category. People now talk about tequila the way they talk about wine.”

“While we’re all for being passionate about tequila, we wanted to remind people that, above all, it’s meant to be fun. That’s where the name Pantalones came from, and that’s why you won’t see us wearing any.”

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