Inside Cole Hauser And Matthew McConaughey's Friendship

Publish date: 2024-05-02

Publish date: 2023-12-27

Being local and somewhat of an outsider, Matthew McConaughey introduced his own vibe to the group. In a 2020 interview with Vulture, Cole Hauser shared that the Texas native was eager to show off his town. "Matthew was like, 'C'mon guys, get out of your hotel room, let me take you down to the river'... It's muggy and nasty in Austin during the summer, so to have a cool spring with a beer in your hand and beautiful girls cruising by? It was heaven on earth," Hauser said.

The two hit it off and they ended up taking them — alongside fellow cast member Rory Cochrane (who played Ron Slater) — a trip across Europe in the months that followed, McConaughey told Austin Monthly. He still has a Heineken coaster from Amsterdam, which he keeps in a Ziplock bag with other mementos, per the report.

A year after filming Dazed and Confused in the summer of 1992, McConaughey moved to Los Angeles, where he crashed on Don Phillips' couch for a while, he told LA Magazine. Phillips wasn't the only familiar face he knew in California then.

"I had my buddies Rory Cochrane and Cole Hauser here, and we would hit up the Formosa Cafe and Chez Jay in Santa Monica," he said, adding that "go have a drink with Cochrane and Hauser" is still among his priorities when McConaughey, who has moved back to Austin, likes to do when he goes to California.

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