Matthew McConaughey spent his childhood fascinated by motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel's jumps, but now he is focusing on the life "between the jumps" as host for The History Channel's show on the veteran stuntsman.
McConaughey has been wrapping up shooting for The History Channel's "Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story" scheduled to air June 13.
The program is part autobiographical, with Knievel talking about his career, relationships with women and his son, his baseball-bat beating of a former press agent and time in jail.
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As a child, McConaughey said he watched Knievel's stunts, then went outside and jumped mounds of dirt on his bike. "I'd jump and only get a little air, and they'd call me Little Knievel," McConaughey said.