Tag Archives: Woody Harrelson

Entertainment

Robert Downey Jr. Nearly Ruined ‘Natural Born Killers’

Leave a comment

Oliver Stone stated filming Pure Born Killers positively had its challenges and Robert Downey Jr. didn’t make it any simpler.

Thirty years after the discharge of the 1994 crime romance, the Oscar-winning filmmaker regarded again on the movie for a latest oral historical past by Esquire. This included Downey’s improvisation in a scene, the place his character dips the entrance tails of his white shirt in pretend blood and pulls it via his pants zipper to simulate a bloody penis.

“Oh come on—that’s an excessive amount of! You’re going too far, Robert,” Stone recalled yelling on the actor for the crude second. “You’re ruining my film! Neglect the dumb dick thought. … This isn’t some slapstick bullshit.”

Nonetheless, the director later reversed course, telling the Oppenheimer star, “Wait, wait—wait a second. Let me see the dick factor once more.” Downey complied with the orders earlier than Stone added, “Pull it again a half inch. All proper. Let’s go.”

Pure Born Killers adopted Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis’ characters, lovers and psychopathic serial killers, who grow to be media sensations whereas on their cross-country killing spree. Downey performed trashy TV journalist Wayne Gale.

Filming for the 1994 film additionally got here at a time when Downey was combating habit. “The one time I used to be awake… was between Motion and Reduce,” the Iron Man star admitted.

Nonetheless, it wasn’t simply Downey. Stone advised the outlet that manufacturing “was a zoo within the sense the actors have been all on completely different sorts of journeys. I believe Woody was probably the most sane.” And that’s saying quite a bit, as Harrelson is thought for his marijuana use.

“I’ll say this, and Oliver reassured me of this: I don’t wish to say I used to be the ethical heart on this film, however I used to be the one doing the least quantity of medication! Which is—it’s by no means occurred in my profession or my life,” Harrelson added. “And nobody’s ever executed extra medication than me, however I used to be Mom Teresa on this one.”

Except for the craziness that ensued on set, which Downey additionally described as a “precision-executed three-ring circus ballet,” the actor nonetheless extremely praised Stone for what he created with Pure Born Killers: “With this film, Oliver Stone has bought one thing that also bears reexamination.”

Downey later added, “Oliver Stone is a director who, barring [Christopher] Nolan and perhaps a couple of others, is the best embodiment of social commentary by way of cinema. Oliver Stone has by no means made a film that wasn’t saying one thing. By no means.”

Entertainment

Ted Danson on Working With Amazon to Reduce Single-Use Plastic

Oceana, the world’s largest worldwide advocacy group targeted on ocean conservation, held its annual SeaChange Summer season Get together on Saturday.

The Laguna Seaside get together, hosted this 12 months by Ted Danson, raised $1.5 million for campaigns to guard and restore the oceans in California and around the globe. “We’ve been doing it for 17 years, and we’ve raised over $20 million simply from that space alone,” Danson informed THR.

“They’re such a devoted, supportive, beneficiant viewers down there, it’s one in every of our favourite occasions,” the actor stated, including that the group is “often capable of get Hollywood to return down” for the fundraiser.

This 12 months’s occasion, which honored longtime supporter and SeaChange co-founder Valarie Van Cleave, included an deal with from the group’s new CEO Jim Simon. Singer Lisa Loeb additionally carried out a personal live performance for attendees. The get together had a slew of superstar friends alongside Danson, together with Diane Lane, Oscar Nuñez, Dennis Haysbert, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Sam Trammell and extra.

All through the occasion, Oceana highlighted greater than 25 victories over the previous 12 months together with convincing Amazon to scale back single-use plastic in North America, new habitat protections in a number of international locations, and actions in California to scale back whale and sea turtle entanglements in business fishing gear.

Danson, a board member of Oceana, can simply recall the group’s many wins. “Plastics is simply this enormous downside wherever you go, together with southern California,” he defined, mentioning that the group labored with Amazon to scale back single-use plastic. “They’ll be stopping using plastic pillows by the tip of 2024,” he added.

“Relating to plastics, we work with companions on a regular basis to get this stuff achieved,” Danson stated. “We’re positively main the cost,” he continued, including that “there are various different organizations which have been engaged on this with us.”

The actor emphasised how detrimental plastics are. “It’s an enormous downside,” he stated. “Plastics are projected to triple by midcentury.”

He additionally identified that it’s not nearly being higher at recycling. “That’s a terrific advertising and marketing slogan for the plastic trade, but it surely doesn’t work. It by no means has,” Danson stated. “I believe one thing like 8 % of all of the plastic created has been recycled, and numerous the time that’s simply down-cycling, in order that bag is now a plastic garden chair as a result of it’s recycled, however then that chair turns into a problem sooner or later.”

In between his time with Oceana and Danson’s many different skilled gigs, he’s been engaged on a Cheers podcast together with his former co-star Woody Harrelson. “I really feel prefer it’s this privilege to take a seat down with any individual for an hour and a half and have a real, relaxed, deep-as-you-can-go dialog, and learn the way that individual turned that individual.”

Entertainment

Woody Harrelson on Why He Hasn’t Owned a Cell Phone in Three Years

Leave a comment

Woody Harrelson doubtless received’t be responding to any texts or calls in a well timed trend.

The Oscar-nominated actor revealed on a latest episode of the The place Everyone Is aware of Your Title podcast that he hasn’t commonly carried a cellphone with him in years as a result of he discovered himself hooked on the gadget at one level.

“Let me clarify one thing about Woody: He doesn’t have a cellphone,” his podcast co-host and Cheers co-star Ted Danson mentioned. “He’s a kind of bullies in life that make different individuals carry his cellphone for him. ‘Hey, we have to know one thing instantly, name Woody.’ And I simply kinda snigger at whoever says that to me.”

“Properly, that’s not precisely true,” Harrelson responded. “I simply don’t wish to should be available to any human being at any time. And plus, that’s not the rationale. I wish to be in contact with individuals, in a manner, however I don’t just like the appendage on my appendage.”

The True Detective actor defined that he gave up utilizing a cellphone three and a half years in the past as a result of he was spending an excessive amount of time on it.

“I made a factor the place I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna set a two-hour restrict on my cellphone,’” he mentioned. “It’s like 9:30. I’ve already hit my restrict at 9:30. So I awoke and I’ve been on it two hours already, as a result of you understand how it could actually simply maintain going and going.”

Harrelson mentioned he even caught himself getting distracted by the cellphone when he was at dinner with somebody and there was a “lull within the dialog.” He additionally famous that he wasn’t sometimes utilizing apps or taking calls, however reasonably answering quite a lot of textual content messages.

“I by no means used it as a cellphone, ever,” the White Home Plumbers recalled. “Texting.”

Whereas Harrelson now lives a life undistracted by expertise, Danson admitted, “I like what you do with telephones, by the best way, Woody. I must emulate that.”