Matthew McConaughey remembers his late father James and remembered how his “safety net had gone” in his early 20s with his father’s passing.

The actor, 55, took a walk down the memory track in a recent exchange with Interview Magazine reflecting on James’ death from a deadly heart attack at the age of 63.

“Well, when my dad went on, it was obviously difficult because I didn’t even think he was killable, you know?” He told Maze Runner Star Jacob Lofland.

“Through grief and pain, it’s the greatest moment to become a man. I remember I felt, ‘there is a particular safety net that I have always had behind me that is gone.'”

“Because Dad is just like they’re over the law,” The rivals from Amziah King Actor noticed and remembered how he then became more “brave” in real life and had a more head-on approach than he would have had in his father’s life.

“Yes. I remember I got a lot of courage. There were things I did that he had taught me to do, but I was a little half-a ****** because I felt, ‘well, the real guy right behind me’.

Matthew-there has Levi, 16, Vida, 15 and 12-year-old Livingston with his wife Camila men also that having his own children helped him move on.

“It’s a painful but beautiful side by fathers going on.