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Matthew McConaughey talks about the terrifying flight with wife Camila Alves

You need reserved faith. The actor said, recalling the severe turbulence he experienced on board Lufthansa earlier this month. “I mean, it’s weightless.

Actor Matthew McConaughey reflects on his recent trip on a Lufthansa plane damaged by severe turbulence.

The 53-year-old Oscar winner and his wife Camila Alves were traveling from Austin, Texas to Frankfurt, Germany when their plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

“We need an end to unbelief. “I mean, it’s weightless,” McConaughey said in a preview of an upcoming appearance on the podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera.”

Memories of the flight were shared earlier by Alves, 41, on Instagram, saying, “The plane crashed at about 4,000 feet.”

When the plane landed, McConaughey said, “I immediately reached out and made sure Camilla was wearing her seat belt.” “The tray table was holding me down,” he admitted to podcast host Kelly Ripa. It was “a terrible fright,” he said, adding, “I wasn’t wearing my seatbelt and there was no warning just before it happened.”

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“Your red wine glass, your plate of food, and everything else is in the air. And stare at it for a second, two, three, or four seconds before it all collapses,” he continued. rice field. The Dallas Buyers Club actor claimed that a friend pilot sitting next to him comforted him during the horrific incident.

“I had a friend who was a pilot sitting next to me, and he was as cool as a cucumber,” McConaughey said. When asked, “Can the plane withstand it?” I was so relieved”.

Lufthansa Flight 469 experienced “severe turbulence” at 37,000 feet above Tennessee, and seven passengers were taken to hospital, the FAA said. The FAA reports that the plane landed “without incident” at Virginia Airport around 9 a.m.