Matthew McConaughey Wore Flip-Flops at a Club When He First Met Wife Camila — and That Won Her Over (Exclusive)

Sandals in the club are fine, fine, fine, says Camila Alves McConaughey.

The businesswoman and Matthew McConaughey, who recently celebrated the first anniversary of their Pantalones Organic Tequila, opened up about their tequila-inspired sweet encounter back in 2006.

“Out of the corner of my eye, this aqua-green figure was floating across the frame about 20 feet in front of me,” Matthew told PEOPLE in 2016. “My eye shot up and I remember what came out of my mouth. I didn’t say, ‘Who is that? ?’ I said, ‘What is that?'”

Camila’s memory from that night is something different. “The first time I saw him at the bar, he was trying to get the bartender to make these drinks,” the mother of three recently told PEOPLE at the Oct. 24 Pantalones event.

Matthew McConaughey in flip flops.

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“Training bartender to make a margarita,” the A true detective the 54-year-old star corrects her with a laugh.

Camila, 41, continues: “All I heard was this voice on my left, and I’m like, ‘Who cares so much from the bartender that one girl can’t even get water?’ So I looked and thought, ‘Oh!'”

The Brazilian model did not immediately recognize Matthew. “He had a big beard. He had a Rasta hat on. And I kept looking down and I saw some things that I liked — I saw that he had flip-flops on and I was like, ‘Oh, I like that.’ So I decided to stay a little longer at the bar,” she says.

Later that night, the pair bonded over drinks. “I brought her over to my table and I made her, I think, an amazing margarita,” says Matthew. “With those margaritas (probably my third, her first), I understood her Portuguese better than I ever have in 19 years. I spoke Spanish better than I ever have in my life, or probably ever will again. The language of love comes from Portuguese and Spanish that night and we both understood every single word.”

The McConaugheys in their commercial without pants.

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Love and tequila still go hand in hand for the power couple.

Their organic blanco, reposado and añejo tequilas, which recently became available nationwide, are their first joint business venture. They helped each other behind the scenes, but this was the first “face forward project”.

Camila and Matthew McConaughey wear half their birthday suits for their pantsuits for Tequila’s first birthday

“Starting a business relationship, you’re a couple and you’re romantically involved, that can disrupt things a bit,” says Matthew.

Fortunately, any doubts were quickly cleared up once they got going. “We’re having fun with it. That was a promise and part of the vision we have with tequila,” adds Camila.

Part of the fun comes from their pantsless ad campaigns that they’ve shared over the past year. Photos for the brand show the stars riding motorcycles, playing pickleball, mowing the lawn and celebrating a ghost’s first birthday — all without pants.

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