Matthew McConaughey on how he made it through scary flight with zero gravity
Matthew McConaughey has recently opened up about his scary flight
experience after enduring severe turbulence on Lufthansa flight last
month.
During his appearance on Let's Talk Off Camera podcast on
ET, the Interstellar star was en route from Austin to Frankfurt, Germany,
with his wife, Camila Alves, when the flight made an emergency landing at
Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
“It’s suspended disbelief. I mean, it's zero gravity,”
explained Matthew.
The actor discussed about when the plane
dropped by saying he “immediately reached over, made sure Camila had her
seat-belt on”.
Describing the experience as “hell of a scare”,
Matthew stated, “My tray table is what held me down. I did not have my
seat-belt on, and there was not a seat-belt warning right before it
happened.”
“Your red wine and the glass and the plates that your
food was on are all suspended, floating, still just in the air,” pointed out
the actor.
The Dallas Buyers Club actor disclosed, “And to look at it for
that long, which wasn't that long — one, two, three, four [seconds] — and
then everything just comes crashing down continued.
However,
Matthew mentioned that he was relieved after listening positive words from
him amid scary incident.
“I happened to have a friend of mine
sitting next to me who was a pilot. And he was calm as could be,” said the
actor.
Matthew added, “I was like, 'Can the plane hold that?' And
he was like, 'These things are so tested that yes, don't worry, the plane
structurally can hold that.' That was a big relief.”
