The Hi-Lo Country Harrelson has played a lot of cowboys — Hollywood requires anyone from Texas to do it all the time — but this is one of his subtler, more fully realized performances.
In this Stephen Frears drama, Harrelson is laconic but dangerous, a lone-wolf cowboy whose venality and his quiet charisma go hand in hand. The movie is a little too self-serious, but Harrelson cuts through all that. This was back when everyone was trying to make co-star Billy Crudup a movie star, but Harrelson is the one who truly registers.
The Glass Castle This adaptation of the Jeannette Walls memoir suffers from dysfunctional-family-drama familiarity. Cinema is full of Complicated Bad Dads, but this is one of the better versions of recent years, and Harrelson strips away the bluster of his younger years for a character who, deep down, probably knows how pathetic he is. And seriously: Bill Fucking Murray!
This is one crushing death scene, in part because the cause of his death was so grimly foolish, and the actor milks it for every drop of pathos. Rampart Punishing and uncompromising, Rampart looks at a dirty Los Angeles cop, Dave Brown, in the midst of a department-wide scandal. The Edge of Seventeen A lot of disillusioned teenagers would kill to have a teacher like Mr. War for the Planet of the Apes Harrelson goes full Kurtz in this third installment of the Planet of the Apes prequels, which pays lengthy homage to Apocalypse Now.
The Colonel is an intentionally larger-than-life nemesis for Caesar Andy Serkis , raising the stakes for this man-versus-monkey showdown, and Harrelson gives a fully confident performance that still carries some of the off-kilter strangeness that has marked a career in which he was more comfortable zigging when everyone else in Hollywood zagged.
Who knew Woody Boyd was such a fast-talker? But when Carson finally comes in contact with Chigurh — and he knows he only has minutes to live — the actor brings a surprising tenderness to his death scene, as all that cockiness just melts off his face.
Too often, Harrelson has had to struggle to enliven underwritten characters with his own quirky persona. The movie is endlessly moving as we watch him confront the grief-stricken faces he encounters, having to remain stoic while they fall apart. Natural Born Killers The movie that forever changed how we thought of Harrelson, Natural Born Killers remains a divisive knuckle-buster, commenting on violence, media oversaturation, and our obsession with serial killers with fever-dream, button-pushing intensity.
Mickey is a fully formed creation — an unsettling original of pure murderous id — that seemed to unleash the darkest, most primal parts of Harrelson. This movie cracks us up just thinking about it.
Specifically, he was always blowing his nose and had been covered in acne for years. And then a random woman on his bus took one look at him and diagnosed him as lactose-intolerant. She swore that if he quit dairy entirely, his nose and face would clear up in about three days. Harrelson was skeptical, but once he tried it, his face cleared up entirely. At the age of 24, Harrelson looked like a new man, just in time to be cast in his breakout role in Cheers.
This incident not only kicked off his acting career but led to his skepticism about things everyone thinks are good that are actually just "advertising" and a " total hoax. Because he presents himself as a laid-back, pot-smoking dude living in Hawaii who just happens to be a huge movie star, it's easy to forget how intensely political Woody Harrelson can get.
Not just about his activist concerns ranging from deforestation to marijuana legalization , but about the very nature of government itself. On that note, the veteran actor has a very surprising sentiment: he doesn't think we need it all and describes himself as an anarchist. In an interview with Politico , Harrelson let it all hang out. He described politicians as being engaged in "a subtle form of prostitution" and expressed cynicism about both Republicans and Democrats, saying "they all kneel and kiss the ring.
I think people could be just fine looking after themselves. Is it easier to be an anarchist when you've already been made rich by our current society? Apparently, Woody Harrelson's ability to hit it off with anybody extends to the musician Lorde. When he and the rest of the cast and crew were filming Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 in Berlin, Harrelson befriended the young singer and invited her to visit the cast before one of her shows.
She did, and then left to go put on her show. Watching this show was very important to Woody Harrelson, so he decided to bail on the cast and crew and go attend it! To his credit, he didn't stay for the entire show, but he still missed some of his scheduled shoots and held up the production of a multimillion-dollar movie franchise because he just really wanted to jam out with Lorde. In addition to avoiding dairy he's still listening to the advice of the kindly young lady from the bus, all these decades later , Woody Harrelson is a hardcore vegan.
While this is easy enough to manage in his day-to-day life, it actually presents some interesting challenges for bringing his onscreen characters to life. One example of this came in the hit film Zombieland , in which Harrelson plays a character that is absolutely obsessed with Twinkies. How did they get the vegan actor to chow down on one of the most non-vegan snacks on the planet?
Simple: they made him custom vegan Twinkies for the movie. This is actually more common in Hollywood than you might think. For example, the hamburger-obsessed character portrayed by Kal Penn in Harold and Kumar actually munches veggie burgers instead of the usual White Castle fare. The guy setting up the interviews gave me 20 minutes to shoot the shit with Woody. Combine this with the fact that the interview before mine consisted of Reddit-user-submitted questions aka an "AMA"—Ask Me Anything during which Woody only wanted to answer questions related to Rampart.
More on this later. In the meantime here is how I had imagined an interview with Woody would have gone before I actually had to live through one. Harrelson, how are things? Woody Harrelson: Things are great. I also really like VICE; you guys are doing some really great stuff right now. Happy to be talking to you today, really sorry you had to wait an hour and a half…. Great, Woody it is. Rampart is the best fucking movie in the entire world. Now tell me a little bit more.
My character has some serious anger-management issues, and he's not the most morally sound man on the force. He makes a number of bad decisions and subsequently spends a lot of time trying to cover his ass and keep his family from falling apart. A perfect summary! What kind of dirt does he get into? Enquiring minds want to know. All of the above! She never did tell me any of this stuff — I looked at her yearbook. Anyway, she went to college, to Rice University in Houston.
She was a very hardworking student and very smart, but she went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, and she was coming back and met my dad on the plane and got married 10 days later. The longest relationship my mom had was with my dad. That was seven years. He was quite a charming fellow and a gambler. He made a lot of money gambling. He cheated, but he was more of a con artist.
Do you want to come out? He was a great storyteller. You could say my dad was a bad boy, but he was pretty extraordinary in many ways. He had an incredible intellect, but he went down the wrong path. He spent a long time incarcerated for, well, murder. My first arrest, the police were really brutal.
I was 20 or 21, and I was jaywalking, me and a friend, and this cop flags us over, asks to see our ID. Then you had to have an ID to get in. I knocked his hands off, pushed him away and started running. And that was the beginning of a real dire episode. It was so brutal, the way they were handling me. A bunch of students gathered around and were complaining to the cops, and the cops were vicious to them, too.
They stopped to pick up this other poor bastard peeing on the sidewalk, and when they opened those back doors, I just shot out of there. But I was a runner — I did track and stuff. I was running as fast as I could across the parking lot. And I can hear them all shouting and running after me, and there is a car going across this parking lot. I hit the car, did a complete flip, landed on the back of my head, kept rolling, and then they were on me and they maced the fuck out of me.
So yeah, I went to jail, they rough you up a little more, and before it was over, they had six counts against me. My mom came and got me the next day. That was brutal. That was a real eye-opener — and an eye-closer at the same time because it really fucked my eyes. I had to wear sunglasses for a long time. I looked like some kind of weird reptile. I stopped wanting to be a cop, for sure. But by then I was probably more interested in being an actor.
Zero offers. But eventually I went in and I read for [the casting director]. Hang on.
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