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EVERYONE KNOWS THAT Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are one of the great duos in show business. After meeting and becoming friends on the set of the 1999 comedy film EdTV, the actors began a long friendship, along the way collaborating again for the first season of True Detective, widely considered to be one of the great television shows of all time.

But did you know that in addition to being great friends, the two might also be half-relatives? That’s the premise of Apple TV’s new comedy series Brothers, which reunites the duo on screen for the first time since 2014’s True Detective, and pulls from a bit of very real mythology that the two only relatively recently discovered on their own. “Matthew’s mother, I’d known her 25 years, and she told me, ‘I knew your father.’ You know, like, with the ellipses: ‘I knew … your father’” Harrelson told Variety .…