{"id":2408363,"date":"2026-05-08T22:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2408363"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:36:59","slug":"justin-long-was-once-in-a-matthew-mcconaughey-themed-bowling-team-with-aubrey-plaza-oscar-isaac-and-kate-mara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/justin-long-was-once-in-a-matthew-mcconaughey-themed-bowling-team-with-aubrey-plaza-oscar-isaac-and-kate-mara\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Long Was Once in a Matthew McConaughey-Themed Bowling Team with Aubrey Plaza, Oscar Isaac and Kate Mara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Justin Long is sharing that he once formed a bowling team called \u201cThe Alright Alright Alrights\u201d with Aubrey Plaza, Oscar Isaac and other celebrity friends<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Long said Matthew McConaughey served as the team\u2019s \u201cspiritual coach\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an Instagram post, Long blamed Isaac\u2019s <em>Star Wars <\/em>casting for ending their \u201cprofessional bowling\u201d dreams<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/justin-long\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Justin Long;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Justin Long&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Justin Long<\/a> is taking fans back to an oddly specific \u2014 and hilariously star-studded \u2014 moment from the early 2010s involving bowling, celebrity friends and a tribute to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/matthew-mcconaughey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Matthew McConaughey;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Matthew McConaughey&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Matthew McConaughey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYAN0IiEeH8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Instagram;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Instagram&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> post shared Wednesday, May 6, 47-year-old Long joked about a short-lived \u201cprofessional bowling team\u201d he formed around 2011 with fellow actors <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/aubrey-plaza\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Aubrey Plaza;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Aubrey Plaza&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Aubrey Plaza<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/oscar-isaac\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Oscar Isaac;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Oscar Isaac&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Oscar Isaac<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/kate-mara\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Kate Mara;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kate Mara&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kate Mara<\/a> and Max Minghella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSometime around 2011, we all quit acting to form a professional bowling team \u2018The Alright Alright Alrights,\u2019 \u201d Long wrote, referencing McConaughey\u2019s famous catchphrase from <em>Dazed and Confused<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE&#8217;s <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:free daily newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;free daily newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong>free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity 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Long\/Instagram<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Long added that McConaughey himself was deeply connected to the fictional team \u2014 at least, spiritually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c(@officiallymcconaughey was our coach\u2026 more of a SPIRITUAL coach),\u201d Long joked in his caption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time, many of the actors involved were on the verge of major career breakthroughs. Plaza was becoming a breakout comedy favorite through <em>Parks and Recreation<\/em>, while Isaac was steadily rising in Hollywood before eventually landing one of his biggest roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And according to Long, Isaac&#8217;s success is precisely what led to the bowling team\u2019s unraveling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThen Oscar got a role in STAR WARS and that was it\u2026 our dreams were dashed,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Isaac famously joined the <em>Star Wars<\/em> universe as pilot Poe Dameron beginning with 2015\u2019s <em>The Force Awakens<\/em>, a role that catapulted his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In his Instagram post, Long joked that he still hasn\u2019t recovered from the group\u2019s collapse all these years later<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI know Oscar is in a new show called BEEF\u2026 it reminded me that I still have beef with HIM\u2026\u201d Long continued, referencing Isaac\u2019s role in the Netflix series, <em>Beef<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI wonder if that\u2019s what this Netflix show is about,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-puzzler-8620185\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! 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Play now!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The actor finished the post with one final tongue-in-cheek jab at his former teammate: \u201cI know one day we\u2019ll have a laugh about this but right now, 15 years later, it\u2019s still too fresh \ud83d\ude1e\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/justin-long-recalls-matthew-mcconaughey-themed-bowling-team-with-aubrey-plaza-oscar-isaac-and-kate-mara-11969502\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;People&quot;}\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Justin Long is sharing that he once formed a bowling team called \u201cThe Alright Alright Alrights\u201d with Aubrey Plaza, Oscar Isaac and other celebrity friends Long said Matthew McConaughey served as the team\u2019s \u201cspiritual coach\u201d In an Instagram post, Long blamed Isaac\u2019s Star Wars casting for ending their \u201cprofessional bowling\u201d dreams Justin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2408364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[51066,470851,355753,53779,350559,27639,348741,454194,470852],"class_list":["post-2408363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-aubrey-plaza","tag-bowling-team","tag-celebrity-friends","tag-instagram-post","tag-kate-mara","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-oscar-isaac","tag-professional-bowling","tag-spiritual-coach"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Justin-Long-Was-Once-in-a-Matthew-McConaughey-Themed-Bowling-Team.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408365,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408363\/revisions\/2408365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}