“Poor white trash, that’s what I play.”
He’s an anarchist who fights against deforestation and for legal weed. He stars in one of Cannes' favorite films this year ... This is the one and only Woody Harrelson.
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He’s an anarchist who fights against deforestation and for legal weed. He stars in one of Cannes' favorite films this year ... This is the one and only Woody Harrelson.
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00:00It kind of makes sense.
00:02Like I said to Milos, poor white trash.
00:04You know, he looked, wherever we have poor white trash, where's an actor?
00:07Oh, Woody Harrelson.
00:08It's simple.
00:10Man, that's what I play.
00:12P.W.T., man.
00:30Twinkies?
00:37Well, I personally would never eat a Twinkie because I don't eat sugar and I don't eat dairy.
01:00I don't like to concentrate that much.
01:26My brain, it's not.
01:28I wanted to be, shall we say mainstream as an American actor.
01:48I thought he was a pretty good guy.
01:50You know, he's very, you know, very religious, very committed.
01:54I see.
01:55So, you know, seeing it how I'm not quite in that ballpark now, I don't know how we get along.
02:22When I came to New York, I held, I think, 17 different jobs.
02:26Mostly, you know, like a runner, a waiter, bartender at a Broadway show.
02:38I did a bunch of different jobs.
02:40Failed at all of them, luckily.
03:01What are you doing?
03:02I'm doing two things.
03:03What?
03:04I'm making them mad.
03:05Most guys don't play good when they're mad.
03:06Look, you know, you're embarrassing me.
03:07That's what you're doing.
03:08Yeah, well, that's the other thing I'm doing.
03:30Getting into it, and believe me, Oliver demands that you get into it, was a fascinating process, you know, and it brought out a lot of my rage.
03:52I think one of the lessons we've learned here is that the oil industry cannot be trusted.
03:57I don't intend to be putting Exxon in my car for a while, and this is the way I intend to make my statement of outrage.
04:17I can't imagine things being much better.
04:19I feel really complete.
04:21I'm really in love with my family.
04:23They're all amazing.
04:25That's the main part of my life, and my friends, which are really my extended family, and of course, you know, all this, you know, stuff lately is a nice little bonus.
04:53I said, Woody, what do you do when you've got a problem or a conflict that comes up in your life?
04:57He lowers his head for about 15 or 20 seconds.
05:00He looks back up to me and looks right in my eyes, deep into my soul, and he says, I just forget about it.
05:06That's true.
05:27I'm sorry I got distracted.
05:29Let's start that right away.
05:31Keep rolling, people.
05:36I wish there was a way to get rid of that son of a bitch and get in a great president, you know, but it doesn't seem like that's going to happen with Obama becoming president.
05:54It seemed like we were on a good path toward racial harmony.
05:58And now we have a guy running this country who has unearthed a lot of bigotry and a lot of racism, and it seems to be more virulent than ever.
06:20I wish I had more to say and more articulate about everything.
06:23Thank you very much.