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Puzzle #746: Matthew McConaughey → Daniel Radcliffe

Monday, August 31, 2026

Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey
Daniel RadcliffeDaniel Radcliffe

On Monday, August 31, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Matthew McConaughey and Daniel Radcliffe. The two have never been credited in the same movie, so there's no one-move answer. But 17 actors have worked with both of them in their best-known films, so it can be done in just 2 moves.

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The shortest solution

Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)
  1. Matthew McConaughey as Cooper in Interstellar (2014), which also stars Michael Caine as Professor Brand.
  2. Michael Caine as Arthur Tressler in Now You See Me 2 (2016), alongside Daniel Radcliffe as Walter Mabry.

The full chain: Matthew McConaughey → Interstellar (2014) → Michael Caine → Now You See Me 2 (2016) → Daniel Radcliffe.

Other ways to solve it

Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)
  • Matthew McConaughey → Contact (1997) → John Hurt → Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) → Daniel Radcliffe
  • Matthew McConaughey → The Gentlemen (2020) → Geraldine Somerville → Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) → Daniel Radcliffe
  • Matthew McConaughey → Amistad (1997) → Morgan Freeman → Now You See Me 2 (2016) → Daniel Radcliffe

About Matthew McConaughey

Born
November 4, 1969 in Uvalde, Texas, USA
Film career
1993–2026
Widely seen films
48 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:

About Daniel Radcliffe

Born
July 23, 1989 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Film career
2001–2022
Widely seen films
29 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain: