Get ready for one of the cutest celebrity stories ever: Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant hatched a plan to set up McConaughey’s 88-year-old mom, Mary, and Grant’s 91-year-old dad, James, in a meet-cute for the ages.

The plan has been brewing for a while. Just before Christmas, in an interview with Mashable, the topic of their parents came up. McConaughey’s dad died of a heart attack back in 1992, and Mary had yet to remarry. “Would your 87-year-old mom like a nice 91-year-old Englishman?” asked Grant.

As a matter of fact, she might! McConaughey offered an update in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight for The Gentlemen, their upcoming movie directed by Guy Ritchie: “Next week, they’re supposed to meet, and we probably won’t see them for the rest of the night.” That would be this week, for those reading this today. Could a love connection be in the air? Fingers crossed it is, and then we can live out a real-life Stepbrothers with Grant and McConaughey. Better yet, someone write a rom-com script about two conniving actors setting up their parents.

As for the actors themselves, their movie hits theaters January 24th. The Gentlemen features McConaughey as Mickey Pearson, an American expat who has set up a modest empire in London’s seedy underbelly by getting into the cannabis business and dominating the market. When word gets out that Mickey might be willing to sell his business, the criminal world explodes with nefarious criminal characters all trying to move in on Mickey’s turf.

Meanwhile, Hugh Grant plays Fletcher, a sleazy and underhanded private investigator hired by a conniving tabloid editor to dig up dirt on Mickey. He schemes and plots to ingratiate himself into the criminal underworld, all the while passing off what he’s learned to Ray (Charlie Hunnam), Mickey’s right-hand man and confidant.

Grant has plenty of firsthand experience about the sometimes seedy world of PIs – he knows because he’s been on the receiving end. For almost a decade now, Grant has campaigned and advocated for stronger press ethics and journalistic integrity (Some context for those in the U.S.: He’s speaking of the normal press, but also the paparazzi; the U.K.’s anti-paparazzi laws are far laxer than they are in the U.S. and tabloids abound). So he picked the brain of plenty of private investigators who were once his enemy, he revealed in an interview with the Boston Herald:

“Some of these guys — who used to hack my phone or steal my medical records or organize burglaries in my flat — have now come over to our side. A lot of them have been to prison now and they’re angry that the bosses have never been properly prosecuted or punished. So, they want to help put them away. It is quite odd. I’ll be at my birthday party and my mate who runs the campaign will say, ‘Hugh, I don’t think you’ve met Joe Bloggs here. He burgled your flat in 1995,’ and I’ll go, ‘Hello Joe. Come in and have a drink. I think you know where everything is.’”

Look, if Hugh Grant can forgive people who once broke into his house and stole his private information enough to become friendly with them, surely his dad and McConaughey’s mom can find a love connection. I’m just saying, I expect a wedding out of this.

The Gentlemen is in theaters on Friday, January 24th. Get tickets here.