Matthew McConaughey and his wife are getting better at finding time for themselves

17 November 2020

Matthew McConaughey and his wife are "getting a little bit better" at finding time for themselves.

Matthew McConaughey

The 51-year-old actor has been quarantined at home with his 38-year-old wife Camila Alves, their kids - sons Levi, 12, and Livingston, seven, and 10-year-old daughter Vida - and his 88-year-old mother Kay, and the loved up couple are having to work hard to build "some structure".

Appearing on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' on Monday (16.11.20), he said: "Sometimes you go through the day and you got the kids’ remote schooling, you get everyone set up, you’re doing meals and running around.

"I’m doing my work, she’s doing hers, and sometimes it’ll be at 9:30 at night or 10 o’clock when we actually look at each other and go, ‘Oh, hi, how are you?’

“But she’s really good at scheduling and we’re getting a little bit better at creating some structure, not only for the kids but for us and saying, ‘Hey, from this time to this time don’t come knocking on the door. We’re gonna have our time.' "

Meanwhile, Matthew joked having his mum around since the early days of the pandemic makes it feel like he and his wife have an extra child at home.

He teased: "This has been going on for 7 months, since the quarantine began.

“It’s been going on long enough to sometimes say, when you say how many kids you have in the house, I say four: a 12, 10, 7 and 88 year old… She still goes to bed after me and wakes up before me!”

The 'Dallas Buyers Club' star previously described parenthood as the biggest adventure of his life.

He explained: "It’s the only thing I ever knew I wanted to be. It’s a new adventure every single day because the kids are seeing everything for the very first time. It’s a constant balance of how much to teach them and how much you let them go experience it, to learn it and understand it.

"While they’re all our children, they’re very different and unique. They handle the same situation in different ways because that’s who they are. I’m trying to make sure I put in front of them more things they love to do and remove things that might harm them, but not everything. I want to make sure they still get their bumps and bruises."