Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey’s ‘True to Texas’ Movement Angers Hollywood Insiders Amid Crisis

TV’s True Detective stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey are crusading to turn their home state of Texas into a Hollywood South, and sources say that’s earned them a ton of enemies in the real Tinseltown where they could find themselves outcasts.

Sources say that the stars, who played serial-killer hunters in the hit 2014 HBO crime series, have been branded ingrates and hypocrites who are biting the hands that fed them!

The brouhaha erupted after Woody, 63, and Matt, 55, dissed Hollywood in an ad for their “True to Texas” movement, where they called on the legislature to create new incentives for TV and film production in the Lone Star State.

Their humorous ad features the pair in their True Detective roles of crime solvers Marty Hart and Rust Cohle talking about turning the state into the “New Hollywood,” and features other diehard Texans — Billy Bob Thornton, Renée Zellweger and Dennis Quaid.

“Hollywood is a flat circle,” Matthew grunts in the video. “This industry is like somebody’s memory of an industry, and the memory’s fading. I’m talking about a whole new hub for film and television. A renaissance. A rebirth.”

Woody chimes in, “A small fraction of Texas budget surplus to turn this state into the New Hollywood.”

According to the source, California’s showbiz bigwigs are fit to be tied, especially following the wildfires that left large swaths of L.A. in smoldering ruins, along with 29 people dead and thousands homeless.

“A lot of folks are asking, what were those guys thinking, releasing that campaign so close to the devastating L.A. wildfires and amid the significant shrinkage in L.A.-based production?” gripes an insider.

“They should have known better, and now they can’t take it back. It felt like they were kicking the local L.A. production community at a low point when it needed industry leaders to stand up for it.”

The pair is being looked at as ingrates that have turned their backs on the town where they made their fortunes, say sources, adding that’s why the turncoats haven’t been seen at recent industry events.

“Woody and Matthew have been conspicuously absent from red carpets during award season and that’s got to be because they know they’re going to catch hell the next time they show their faces,” says the insider.

“People are outraged. The business is hurting and the last thing the industry needs is these guys trying to lure more jobs out of Southern California!”