Woody Harrelson: "The Happy Hippie"

she's probably got a better diet than 99.99999% of all people maybe that's because of all people actor Woody Harrelson is her owner the happy hippie that's what he calls himself had longed for a place a bit off the grid far away from Ellie's high priced lunches in the Hollywood spotlight he once feared might chew him up I didn't wanted to raise my kids in LA I just you know it ain't a bad town and there's a lot of good people there but uh I just didn't think it was a place to raise the kids he landed his family in Costa Rica for a while but then the committed vegan decided Maui was the place to be and I just love it here and I mean it's got the beauty of Costa Rica but better produce that's a different kind of endorsement than the Hawaiian Islands are used to but what he rarely does things by the book on a recent trip back to LA he came to present the Golden Globe nominees and decided to ad-lib Best Motion Picture Drama rampart but I don't see it on the list here uh one way or another is going to make sure that rampart is upcoming movie got notice hey what's your problem is a gritty film to say the least tracking the downward spiral of a rogue cop in the LAPD his character Dave Brown is angry as his paranoid chain-smoking dirty why are you looking to hang me why me I scribed by song is rotting from the inside alack question of all the truly rotten cops out there why why are you after the one guy who gets it do you think you knocked it out of the park well that's funny cuz when I first saw it I thought I was terrible I really did what changed your mind then uh saw it again my biggest problem prior to starting all this was just believing that I could be a cop the first time I saw a picture myself you know come in and put on the Wardrobe and I was like I don't know man looks like me at Halloween or something yeah if playing a cop was a stretch playing an army officer whose job it is to notify family members of the death of a loved one in the messenger was even tougher your husband can you I was killed last night in Iraq especially given Woody's outspoken opposition to the war secretary the army has asked me to express his deepest sympathy to you I used to always kind of lumped the soldiers in with the war you know it wasn't that I had anything against him but I just kind of put it all together that changed he said after working with real soldiers and their families and his was an oscar-nominated performance I'd never cried on-screen until the messenger you've never cried never I think I faked it once or twice but I never actually cried and then the messenger you couldn't hardly stop me from crying born in Texas been raised mostly in Ohio Woody Harrelson always loved the theater another role came calling at the very moment he was getting his first big break on Broadway is amazed in a place where everybody soon knew his name cheers you from out of town my name is woody Boyd woody hi I'm Sam Malone so he had to choose basically between going into TV or clean I'm really it was a hard choice I was thinking well I just I need to stay pure I don't want to do television I got to stay pure and do theater um so what changed your mind every other person said go do that freaking show you idiot I'm a great believer in intuition it's like when I first saw you Sam something told me you were super smooth with the ladies maybe was that time you walked out of here with four of them one on each arm and there he stay winning an Emmy before cheers finally racking ticket in 1993 we worried about being typecast though and sort of the woody role oh yeah I was six years on that show without any novel and without even a nibble you didn't have to wait long he's done almost 40 films since Cheers hurt his back his first Oscar nomination came in the People vs Larry Flynt tortured a selfie tell everybody the pervert is back the part he only agreed to take after he met and liked Larry Flint himself he took sitting down with him and hanging out and realizing how incredible refreshingly honest he is that were you liked about him he would say anything he had there's no sensor in his brain I mean during the course of this conversation I've censored myself 25 times he would he would not sense himself they grew so close in fact what are you jokes Larry Flint could be his father surrogate for the ones it was rarely around I never got fathered like in the traditional sense Charles Harrelson spent most of Woody's trial hood in and out of jail and in the early 80s was convicted of the contract killing of a federal judge and sentenced to two life terms he died in prison in 2007 we guys pretty close well I'd say we were pretty close but it's hard to get to know someone really well when they're when you're talking through glass on phones how often could you go visit him for the last part of his life he was in the Supermax in Colorado so didn't get much opportunity to kind of hang time I would've liked it's not that what he's a stranger the brushes with the law but most of the time his are for a cause he was arrested for planting hemp seeds in Kentucky to bring awareness to hemp sustainability as an industrial crop he also scaled the Golden Gate Bridge in hopes of saving the redwoods 1 1 woody harrelson that landed him in court - there's less activism these days and more time focused on being a good husband to his wife Laura and father to their three daughters people ask me what I've taught my kids I like to think that I've been an incredible role model of what not to do so that includes losing a lot of money at his favorite hangout in Maui the home of country music legend Willie Nelson yeah how much money what you figure you've lost so Willie well I built that far away on the house the woody sweet Willy's poker nights are legendary we're - okay domino game son can't be beat this ain't looking pretty what do you found out okay what I don't understand is you knew how this was gonna work out and you brought the world it took joy to watch you watch it happen even the defeat Harrelson is as happy as he can be somebody said once that they thought that you were one of the most underappreciated actors of our generation I think that's true that's interesting because lately I've been thinking maybe I'm a little over appreciate you know how some can look at it that way you know people thinking I'm better than I am you know expectations sometimes are a bit too high you worry I yeah I mean I you know I don't want to run out of ideas next time I do a part and just found it in you know so yeah I'd rather die expectations stay love you

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Length: 9min 2sec (542 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 02 2012